Private Eyes "Shadow of a Doubt" season 2 episode 18 (spoilers)

Adam H. Kerman

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Apr 8, 2019, 1:15:50 AM4/8/19

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Just watched the season 2 finale of Private Eyes. Angie and Matt fail to
vette new clients, who con them. It's Laura Vandervoort and Colin
Ferguson! I didn't know she was from Toronto. Dana plays on Angie's
heartstrings with a sob story about sexual harrassment at work and turns
up the sobs with a story about a sick father. The moment she asked them
to steal a hard drive, I wondered about corporate espionage, but it
turned out to be a defense project. Dana turned out to be not Dana
anyway; the real Dana is a black woman. Colin Ferguson lied about being
the brother of an old teammate. Once Shade asked Zoe to run checks on
everybody, she did it in less than 30 seconds.

Ends in a cliffhanger with Angie getting taken into custody by the
"feds" (Why cannot they say RCMP?) moments after non-Dana is handed the
stolen hard drive. I'm really not sure what caused them to fail to
arrest Angie while she had the stolen evidence on her. They knew who she
was the night before.

suzeeq

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Apr 8, 2019, 1:57:34 AM4/8/19

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I think they thought they'd be able to get to her but didn't see Angie
getting arrested.

Adam H. Kerman

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Apr 8, 2019, 2:02:11 AM4/8/19

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It had national security implications, so why did they wait till
morning? They should have come up with her identity from facial
recognition the moment the theft was noticed.

Yes, I know it's more dramatic and cliff-hangery this way, pretty rotten
given that season 3 hadn't yet been ordered.

anim8rfsk

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Apr 8, 2019, 2:24:00 AM4/8/19

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Sun, 07 Apr 2019 22:15:48 -0700 Adam H. Kerman<a...@chinet.com> wrote:

> Private Eyes "Shadow of a Doubt" season 2 episode 18 (spoilers)
> Adam H. Kerman<a...@chinet.com>
> April 7, 2019 at 10:15:48 PM MST

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> Just watched the season 2 finale of Private Eyes. Angie and Matt fail to
> vette new clients, who con them. It's Laura Vandervoort and Colin
> Ferguson! I didn't know she was from Toronto.

Toronto, Argo, Smallville, Vancouver, tomatoe, tomahtoe.

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Adam H. Kerman

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Apr 8, 2019, 2:34:00 AM4/8/19

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anim8rfsk <anim...@cox.net> wrote:
>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 22:15:48 -0700 Adam H. Kerman<a...@chinet.com> wrote:

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>>Just watched the season 2 finale of Private Eyes. Angie and Matt fail to
>>vette new clients, who con them. It's Laura Vandervoort and Colin
>>Ferguson! I didn't know she was from Toronto.

>Toronto, Argo, Smallville, Vancouver, tomatoe, tomahtoe.

Hey! She's related to Gordon Pinsent from Due South!

A Friend

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Apr 8, 2019, 4:30:57 AM4/8/19

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In article <q8ele4$600$1...@dont-email.me>, Adam H. Kerman

<a...@chinet.com> wrote:

> Ends in a cliffhanger with Angie getting taken into custody by the
> "feds" (Why cannot they say RCMP?)

The RCMP strongly discourages references to it in unapproved
entertainment programs. IIRC there's also copyright protection on
Mountie uniforms and work language and stuff. This happened around the
time they made that live-action Dudley Do-Right movie.

Lest we forget, the FBI had the same thing going on this side of the
border. Programs had to refer to "federal officers" or the "Government
Bureau of Investigation" and so on. This was so J. Edgar Hoover and
his people could keep control of the image of the FBI. The rules were
unenforceable under the Constitution but were followed anyway until THE
GREATEST AMERICAN HERO came along and didn't bother asking for
permission to call Bill Maxwell an FBI agent.

suzeeq

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Apr 8, 2019, 1:01:17 PM4/8/19

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I think it has been though. Just won't be shown in the US for another
year or so.

Adam H. Kerman

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Apr 8, 2019, 1:26:33 PM4/8/19

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Yes. I couldn't find how many episodes were ordered or how they're doing
on production. Global hasn't put them on the schedule yet.

As they're being sold as foreign programming and not as a co-production,
my guess is that Ion won't pay money till they're in the can.

Nevertheless, suzeeq, all producers can rot in Mormon hell for ending
every television season on a cliffhanger under circumstances in which
they don't have the next season order in hand.

I don't want seasons ending on cliffhangers. I just don't remember what
happened in Part 1 nine months to a year or longer later.

suzeeq

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Apr 8, 2019, 1:29:05 PM4/8/19

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Usually they give you a flashback at the opening of the new season. But
I bet you won't forget this one!

anim8rfsk

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Apr 8, 2019, 1:48:59 PM4/8/19

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The first instance I can recall of this was MATT HOUSTON. The prevailing
theory at the time is that they thought the cliffhanger would make them more
likely to be renewed. It didn't work.

Adam H. Kerman

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Apr 8, 2019, 2:03:54 PM4/8/19

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That's ahead of Who Shot J.R.?

EGK

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Apr 8, 2019, 2:28:43 PM4/8/19

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That's what the assholes who produced and wrote Dark Matter thought too. The
suits don't give a shit about that kind of thing. It's all about whether
they can make money.

anim8rfsk

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Apr 8, 2019, 2:47:05 PM4/8/19

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Hmm. No, it's 5 years later. But was Dallas actually not renewed when they
did that?

suzeeq

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Apr 8, 2019, 5:47:28 PM4/8/19

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My 'to watch for list' has them starting S3 on 5/30.

Rhino

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Apr 8, 2019, 6:00:10 PM4/8/19

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Gordon Pinsent is one of those actors who is very well known to
Canadians, even if he never did much outside of the country as far as I
know. Mind you, I'm not sure most of us could name a particular role
he'd been in: it's just that he's been in so many things and everyone
recognizes him.

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Adam H. Kerman

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Apr 8, 2019, 6:02:10 PM4/8/19

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I'm sure it had been renewed, but I thought there was some concern about
whether the audience would come back, so they created the gimmick that
everyone else copied.

I really didn't care for Matt Houston tv series.

anim8rfsk

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Apr 8, 2019, 6:06:18 PM4/8/19

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Well, I could have said 'Due South' without the clew above. :)

anim8rfsk

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Apr 8, 2019, 6:06:42 PM4/8/19

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But but but

Pamela Hensley!

Adam H. Kerman

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Apr 8, 2019, 6:07:48 PM4/8/19

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He was really memorable on that show. I don't recall seeing him on
anything else.

anim8rfsk

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Apr 8, 2019, 6:14:56 PM4/8/19

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He was recurring on Republic of Doyle.

I see half a dozen credits on his IMDb that I know I must have seen because
I've seen those entire series, but I couldn't have summoned them up without
the cheat sheet:
IT TAKES A THIEF
DAN AUGUST
FRIDAY THE 13TH THE SERIES
COUNTERSTRIKE
KUNG FU THE LEGEND CONTINUES
REPUBLIC OF DOYLE
And a handful of others that I've seen a lot of said series so it's good odds
I caught him.

Adam H. Kerman

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Apr 8, 2019, 6:42:36 PM4/8/19

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Now that you mention it, yes, I remember that. I've seen just a few
episodes of that, though.

>I see half a dozen credits on his IMDb that I know I must have seen because
>I've seen those entire series, but I couldn't have summoned them up without
>the cheat sheet:
>IT TAKES A THIEF

Really?

>DAN AUGUST
>FRIDAY THE 13TH THE SERIES
>COUNTERSTRIKE
>KUNG FU THE LEGEND CONTINUES
>REPUBLIC OF DOYLE
>And a handful of others that I've seen a lot of said series so it's good odds
>I caught him.

Ok, thanks

anim8rfsk

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Apr 8, 2019, 7:25:13 PM4/8/19

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My reaction exactly. Season 2, ep 23, "The Family"
Al gets quarantined in the highly secure household of a reclusive elderly oil
magnate, to find out who is behind his oil sales to Iron Curtain countries.

> > DAN AUGUST
> > FRIDAY THE 13TH THE SERIES
> > COUNTERSTRIKE
> > KUNG FU THE LEGEND CONTINUES
> > REPUBLIC OF DOYLE
> > And a handful of others that I've seen a lot of said series so it's good
> > odds
> > I caught him.
>
> Ok, thanks