Mr. Burke Reviews

Review #22: Like Father If you're old enough to remember when there were only three networks which would fill out their weekly programming schedules with "Movies of the Week", then this Netflix film might be of interest to you. Like Father , starring Kelsey Grammar and Kristen Bell , is reminiscent of some of the better movies of the week of years gone by, only with a slightly better budget and bigger names to drive them. To be fair, Bell has top billing and is the central character, but Grammar is the actor I'm more familiar with and the reason I decided to give it a go. The only thing that I know I've seen Kristen Bell in might be a single episode of Veronica Mars . (Note to self: see if that's available to binge.) Life Father is the story of Rachel Hamilton, a workaholic who gets left at the altar because she can't leave her phone home even on the day of her wedding. (She was late walking down the aisle because she took a work call.) Her estranged...

Review #21: Quantico, season 3 After a long hiatus, Quantico returned to ABC in April as a summer replacement series. I thought it had been cancelled. (And whether it had or not, it has been cancelled now.) After a year working with the FBI, and then a second year working with the CIA, what was there to do? Start a special task force working within the Bureau. I'm glad I waited until the season was over to write this review. My initial reaction was that the first episode was a little weak, and I didn't particularly care about the villain. And then something weird happened: the plot wrapped up. It was solved. Done. Huh? Instead of a seasonal arc, the show had weekly episodes, better suited to fit the task force, and this worked nicely. And then they ruined it. The later half of the season devolved into one continuous story arc, following a single nemesis, who outplayed them at every turn despite the fact that his tactics came straight out of The Art of War . The agents kn...