On Fri Mar-05-1999 16:09, Al Kaiser (1:142/926) wrote to All:

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 AK> Two shows seem flops to me.

 AK> The Good Place was a snooze fest.  I don't see it going past the 6
 AK> episodes that are scripted.  It actually reminds me of Cloudy With
 AK> A Chance of Meatballs Heaven Edition.  The only reason it got a
 AK> fair rating was people wanted to check it out and now that they did
 AK> I think many will bail, I know I will. 

I didn't watch that one.  We were trying to catch up on the others.  "The Big
Bang Theory" was a blast.

 AK> Dr. Bull, another one I don't think will last.  This one did not
 AK> work for me, I kept wating for Dr. Bull to break out in his DiNozzo
 AK> character and proposisition one of the women or let out one of his
 AK> smart alacly sexest renarks that the DiNozo character made. 
 AK> DiNozzo was a outstanding NCIS agent but a jerk, his personality
 AK> was one that you would not want to hang with him after work,
 AK> (unless you were looking for a bar fight).  They never even said
 AK> what kind of Doctor Dr. Bull was, I'm guessing criminology or
 AK> something like that.  I was much reminded of a Quincy M.E. episode
 AK> where Quincy went on a jury and did unauthorized medical research
 AK> outside of the court and got the defendent off.  Who know's maybe
 AK> Dr. Bull with loose the glasses and we will find out he's is really
 AK> DiNozzo in a cover roll as a Jury consultant. Sorry I just can't
 AK> get past the NCIS roll.

He's a psychologist.  It takes awhile to get used to someone in another role. 
A case in point would be Cote de Pablo, who also left NCIS.  I haven't liked
her in anything she's done since.

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Regards,

Roger 
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