About Last Night…HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET

Let’s talk about Monday night’s TV!

With many shows going into their winter breaks, bringing back my first-time HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET watch. (Picking up with the season 4 premiere, which is where we left off in September.) So…

HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET: “Fire (Part 1)”:  I’m still trying to avoid spoilers, but hilariously I did have this “spoiled” for me a few days ago—I follow Reed Diamond on Twitter, and he posted the script cover from his first episode of the show, so I knew to expect him here. This was an interesting way to introduce him into the world: A case very much in his world, so it justified seeing more of him than we might be seeing in other circumstances. It worked for me.

Oh, I missed Pembleton and Bayliss so much. The sequence where Tim admitted he was worried about Frank, and Frank finally confessed his wife was pregnant (and no one else knew) was lovely. One of the best partnerships I’ve watched, and I hope they can at least remain solid for the run of the show.

Speaking of which: Bolander and Felton’s exits were SO odd?! I mean, I’m glad they got suspended versus something tragic happening, but it’s kind of wild to write them out that way.

(Also: Munch talking about taking the sergeant exam made me laugh/was bittersweet. That won’t happen until your SVU days, buddy.)

“Fire (Part 2)”: While I maintain I am firmly Team Pembleton/Bayliss, Kellerman and Frank working together was fun for a bit, especially as neither man particularly trusted/had faith in each other.

Kellerman, specifically, tricking a confession out of their suspect was pretty brilliant, though. (I am also, unfortunately, morbidly impressed by the arsonist’s initial plan, too. Staging an arson before the fire you needed to set—to cover up a murder—would have been brilliant if it wasn’t straight-up evil.)

As much as I loved Pembleton and Bayliss in the last episode, this episode was even better, honestly. Frank acknowledging he was petrified to have a kid given everything they see and how unsafe everything is? So human, so gutting. (And, man, I miss Andre Braugher.)

Also: Frank’s point about the classic shows ignoring the reality of the KKK and other deeply harmful things of the time? A+.

So, is Bayliss’ back going to be an ongoing thing, or…?

Which shows did you watch last night?

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