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I am wondering though - in my eternal search for an answer to the question why this episode sucked - did this episode had too many players or am I imagining this?

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Para,

I wondered the same thing. (But before we get to that, where was Ashley seen before? And, how did you get her name?)

This season has been a big eh for me, so far. I think that the MotW have been weak, and without a strong A story, the B and C plots have been unable to carry the episodes. Add to that the more Duncan screentime, some really bad guest actors and them trying to cram too much into 42 minutes and you get some very uneven episodes.

I am sure that Teddy Dunn is a very nice guy, but he has the charisma of a wet noodle on screen most of the time. I know he is trying to spice things up (see eyebrows of insanity) but when Kristin is doing a scene with him she lacks her usual zip. I know that the subject matter of the last episode did not generate much levity, but come on, I find their scenes pretty dull and there have been a lot of them.

Another problem is that the show used to have great secondary characters who showed up and made an impact. In DtKA, I found the main MotW a snore, but by the end of the episode I wanted to be Mrs. Casey Gant because I really liked the character and the actor. Jackie Cook affects me like nails on a chalkboard when she is on screen. Ashley was a terrible actress and I found Jessie a little melodramatic in her line reads. If they had better actors playing the new roles, maybe we would care about some of them. Even the Goot is doing some strange Willy Wonka, goofy everyman thing that is annoying the crap out of me. The exception to this mini rant is Jeffrey Sams who is not only fine, but doing a very good job with the little bit he has been given. Please show more of him, in every sense.

So, hopefully TPTB will give us some good involving mysteries with some memorable new characters (played by people who can act) and try to stop doing everything each episode. I think with a little focus they will be back on track. At least I hope so.

Makes perfect sense.

Thanks!