It's been very rainy in the early mornings the last few days. While I'm glad that it wasn't snow or ice, it is frequently loud and worrisome. Anyway, Christmas is done and the New Year is almost here. I wish for peace in Gaza and less Republican insanity in the US.
On Saturday, NBC aired a Night Court Christmas episode which I hadn't expected, and it was apparently without regard to continuity. Maybe the show just got pushed back due to the strikes, but NBC didn't want to waste the holiday episode, and that's why they aired it. Season 2 actually starts on January 2nd to resolve last year's story. I'll be glad to see Roz again.
Meanwhile, the Lawmen: Bass Reeves show ended somewhat disjointedly with many dropped storylines. Bass did defeat Esau aka Mr. Sundown, but there was no confrontation with the KKK at the Reeves farm. In addition, the slaveowner Rachel Reeves showed up out of nowhere to make sinister threats about reclaiming the Jennie and the kids as slaves. What was that all about? At least her dialogue wasn't as cryptic and nonsensical as Esau's; I've long since grown tired of him speaking in creepy riddles about knowing Bass "for centuries." It's disappointing. The show started out historically accurate, but the latter episodes kept fictionalizing more and more events to build up Esau as the villain haunting Bass. Screenrant has a list of historical facts omitted from Bass's life. Normally I'd be fine just having a few slices of Bass's life, but knowing we only had eight episodes, I would have preferred more real events to made up nonsense. If the show gets renewed at all, they'll move on to another lawman, not Bass Reeves, which is a pity. At least it was a happy ending, though.
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