Life“Mirror Ball”
Original Air Date: Feb 11, 2009
Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com
Let’s put aside the fact that Mirrorball was also the title of Sarah McLachlan’s incredibly depressing live album. This week Crews and Reese investigate the death of the lead singer of a KISS cover band. At least, I only know one band that puts on a ton of pancake makeup and rhinestones.
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Original Air Date: Feb 11, 2009
Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com
Let’s put aside the fact that Mirrorball was also the title of Sarah McLachlan’s incredibly depressing live album. This week Crews and Reese investigate the death of the lead singer of a KISS cover band. At least, I only know one band that puts on a ton of pancake makeup and rhinestones.
Since last week rather neatly explained who shot Charlie – for those of you that missed it (which includes me for the most part), everyone’s favorite FBI agent, put up to the deed by Roman Nevikov, who held his family hostage – this week it’s back to the tried and true case of the week. Sadly, this week doesn’t have Richard Speight Jr. in it. It does have a giant disco ball, though. Hence the title of the episode.
Talking to the surviving members of the band reveals a disgruntled former lead singer who got kicked out after singing one of his own songs in Fresno, which started a riot. (Wow, these cover band fans are rabid.) They find him when he calls the dead man’s widow at home, and trace the number to a construction company: apparently the guy is so invested in pretending to be a dead rock singer that he’s even existing under the same alias. They also meet a woman who’d gotten rejected from the band strictly for being a woman, and who proves to be quite the groupie.
Meanwhile, Charlie’s dad turns up unannounced again (you think he’d call) to say that Olivia has called off the wedding because of Charlie (surprisingly not because of Ted) and their frayed relationship. Charlie reaffirms that he’s still not sorry he shot his dad, and Ted stupidly opens his mouth and admits he loves Olivia. Into all this walks the girl who got rejected from the cover band. She directs them to a vagrant who says he saw the victim and one of his fellow band members come back to the club after the concert was over the night the victim died. That’s enough to pick up the guy.
DNA tests come back on the plastic wrap that the victim was suffocated with, but when they go to take a sample for testing from the ex-lead singer, he’s disappeared. They use the dead man’s widow to lure him out, and when they pick him up, he makes reference to a big box of fan mail he has in his house. One such letter happens to be to the dead guy, and involves a sample of plastic wrap. In order to find who sent it, they turn to the groupie chick, who provides fan photos from the last few concerts they examine to see if anyone stands out. Surprisingly, they see the vagrant from outside the club, and when they confront him he spills – leaving Charlie convinced he may actually be the not-so-dead lead singer of the real band. We’ll never know. Frankly, I’m not sure I want to know.
This is another one of those weird episodes that I really don’t know what to make of. I’m disappointed that for all the talk about her, we never got to actually see Olivia, though I suppose Christina Hendricks is probably busy with Mad Men. This makes me wonder if we’ll ever get proper closure on the Ted/Olivia romance. That said, I still stand by my claim that Life has the weirdest cases on TV – a fact only further proven by the fact that next week we have M.C. Gainey (he of Con Air and recently, Burn Notice) hanging out with his elderly mother drinking tea. Yeah. This show is at least never boring.
What did you think? Let me know below.
I have a question: Who was the girl at the end with the flower painted car? It seemed quite random to me and I was lost. Other than that it was an interesting case, and surprise ending.
ReplyDeleteI really am not sure. Even the NBC recap of the show doesn't identify her. It's completely random; unless she knows them, why would she just randomly drive over and talk to them? Maybe we'll get an explanation next week.
ReplyDeleteI thing it was Rachel Seybolt and that they have replaced Jessy Schram with whomever the person last night was. It was the only thing that made sense to me and I tried look to see if I was right.
ReplyDeleteThat was my idea too, but it seemed really weird to have them up and replace her. And even if it was her, I'd think the NBC recap would say it was Rachel, and not just "a woman".
ReplyDeleteIn the first season finale, Charlie gives his Buick Grand National to some random blond girl at a stoplight. Looks like he was trying to get it back. I hope they fix paint job so he can drive it again, because I loved that car!
ReplyDeleteClementine, thanks for the heads-up! It's been driving me crazy all week. Methinks it's time to rewatch those season one DVDs.
ReplyDeleteAs a watcher of Season 2 via hulu, the final scene did have me dead-on confused. It's a tad annoying that they're not really doing much with these peripheral characters, I just hope it stays on the air long enough for them to wrap some stuff up..
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