The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Friday, June 21, 2013

You can have a job or you can have a life


Me, I am among those who have always wanted both, and I don’t care who knows it.

18 minutes into the first episode, this season, Linden warns Holder not to obsess or he’ll wind up like her in a minimum wage job (so how is she paying for that beautiful house?) as a fire-guard or something on the ferry.

At that point she seems to see the importance of balancing professional and personal lives.

But within the first two episodes she will have refused to move to Chicago to have a bigger role in her son’s life, dumped her new boyfriend (a poor fit, anyway), and jumped back into her 60 hour a week crime-fighter mode.

Holder, meanwhile, partnered with an 8-hours-and-out kind of guy, has been racking up a string of solved cases and is moving in on the sergeant’s exam.

And he has a beautiful ADA girlfriend who, in a single ten-second speech, clues us all in that she wants to have babies and raise kids behind a white picket fence with him, as soon as possible.

But the 8-hour partner is a time-server and Holder’s partnership with him is about done by the end of the fourth episode.

Will his prospects with the ADA survive this season’s plunge into crime-fighter obsession?

Will he make sergeant?

Cop shows and doctor shows always do this and it’s just nuts.

Even cops and doctors deserve a real life.

Competition from workaholic losers with nothing to go home to when the shift is over must make it tough for the ones who want more.

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