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alicepao13 · 8 months

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A lot of my thoughts about the second episode can be summed up in one phrase:

Why the hell wasn't that the first episode???

But I'll try to go a bit more in depth than that.

I'm sure we've had episodes with more action but this was a dynamic episode. Yeah, Charlie and Rex spent a lot of time being just the two of them again, yadda yadda. I can't keep talking about that after every single episode. In fact, since it's kinda the premise of the show, they could very well turn and call me stupid for assuming it would be centered on the rest of the characters as well. But I should also judge what was in the episode, not only what was missing.

Charlie character backstory in season 6? Okay, I'll take it. Daddy issues isn't something revolutionary (then again, you can't do anything remotely revolutionary in a cop show, much less a cop show that's comes from a previous show) but it's something. It's a character moment. Hopefully, it wasn't just that and we'll see Charlie's father.

The action scenes were nicely shot and very dynamically and made you feel like you were in the middle of the action. Yeah, they used a few too many dutch angles at times (they're not supposed to be used so liberally) but I can forgive that.

I don't have much of an issue with the plot as plot. The script was funny at times, some scenes were heartwarming, it was all pro-military bullshit of course, but it's a cop show and Charlie is a navy brat. I've seen 1,500 episodes of NCIS, I can cope. Even when the military-ish music started playing when Charlie was talking to the female perp (forgot her name and also don't have a better name for the genre of music). Props for them hinting that most vets fall through the cracks after they serve while they need help (this episode also aired 2-3 days after World Mental Health Day, and they did discuss a bit, or well, slightly brushed, the fact that soldiers come back after combat, often traumatized, to a world vastly different than how the military works, and they have trouble adjusting to the real world).

Sarah needing time off to buff up a resume that she makes clear she doesn't need? Do not want. Unless it's setting up some future storyline but it better not be her breakup with Charlie. I'll be honest, I'm on the fence about the lack of Charah. The way this show is being written, it could very well be nothing, so I'm not getting that worked up about it. But as a shipper I'd obviously have liked to have seen scenes with them by now. Especially considering how S5 started. I consider seasons 4 and 5 pretty much equal in quality, for different reasons (season 5 being a constant flat tone in terms of angst and stakes only to show "signs of life" in the end got some negative points for me), but season 6 is not starting off great for a variety of reasons which I will not list here, and I also reserve the right to watch a few more episodes to understand what the heck the new showrunner is doing (Names! I want names! I want to know who I'll be cursing this season. Why don't all shows just put a showrunner credit for fuck's sake?)

Things like getting a bunch of motorbikes, only to make a half assed scene, which wasn't bad but didn't offer much either, in which you also can't make your protagonist do the chase and subsequent stunts (unless you hate him), I don't understand. And let's not forget your other protagonist is a dog. And said dog in another scene is indicating that Charlie needs to be getting back on his own bike? Why would Rex care about that? Is he going to ride with Charlie?

Anyway, while this episode wasn't spectacular, it was on par with a lot of typical crime show episodes. Which is where I put the quality of the Hudson and Rex show overall. Yes, I do like the show and I do pay more attention to it than any other crime show I currently watch (never mind the strikes, I'm talking the last two years at least), but that doesn't mean I consider it revolutionary television. An actual 7/10 episode would be considered a good day for this show, in my opinion. If anyone feels differently, I'd love to talk about it with people who have watched at least a few more crime shows. Because if you don't have something else to compare it to, then you can't compare it to anything.

#hudson and rex #it should be noted that the owner of this account couldn't write a 300-word english review in junior high school to save her life lol #I have a love/hate relationship with how much I'm reviewing this show #anyway I like recognizing my own biases #so let me just say that I'd never drop it if they completely fuck up charah because that's not my primary reason for watching #and it's hard to fuck up charlie and rex's partnership (though they did try to make me mad in S5 with their strange screentime allocation)#(which may or may not have been due to situations beyond their control)#but they had managed to have a tenuous balance with charlie rex and the rest of the elements of the show and I don't see that in S6 #yet

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glennk56 · 3 days

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Rob Ramsay 2014-2023

In 2011 Rob Ramsey starred in the satirical comedy short film Patch Town. In 2014 a feature version was made using some footage from the short film and add new footage.

The above photos are from the 2014 version of the dark fantasy comedy Patch Town.

Rob Ramsay was in 4 episodes of Kid's Show, The Thundermans on Nickleodeon in the 2014/2015 season.

Rob Ramsay reprised his role as Donnie Schrab in 2016 feature film Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland that was made as a follow-up to the TV show as it had gained a cult following. The film was shot in 2014.

Rob Ramsay co-starred in the action-comedy film First Round Down which premiered at the Edmonton Film Festival in October 2016. Rob appeared shirtless in this one.

In 2019 Rob Ramsay guested on an episode of What We Do in the Shadows as the poor victim of Colin Robinson, the Energy Vampire and another specialty vampire, an Emotional Vampire.

Rob Ramsay played a mean nurse in It: Chapter Two, the remake of It in 2019.

In 2020 Rob Ramsay appeared on 2 episodes of Anne with an E, a Netflix Original Series in 2020. I believe he played a milkman.

Rob Ramsay appeared on an episode of the action-crime show In the Dark on The CW in 2021.

Rob Ramsay appeared on an episode of mystery-police show Hudson & Rex in 2022 on Canadian outlet CityTV.

Rob Ramsey appeared on the original Freevee series Pretty Hard Cases, a comedic detective series in 2023.

#Rob Ramsay #fat actor #comedy actor #canadian actor #shirtless #Patch Town

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charahandrex · 1 year

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Diesel and John arrived safely at Cannes for the International Premiere of “Hudson & Rex” season 4 at Canneseries

both of them at the Cannes event

#hudson & rex #charlie hudson #hudson and rex #diesel the dog #john reardon

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laresearchette · 2 years

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Sunday, November 27, 2022 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: WRITTEN IN THE STARS (discovery +) MICKEY SAVES CHRISTMAS (Disney Channel Canada) 7:00pm A CHRISTMAS SPARK (Lifetime Canada) 8:00pm A HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR (W Network) 8:00pm CANDACE CAMERON BURE PRESENTS: A CHRISTMAS ... PRESENT (CTV Life) 8:00pm TIS THE SEASON: THE HOLIDAYS ON SCREEN (CNN) 8:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY: MAGICAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATION (ABC Feed)

FIFA WORLD CUP SOCCER (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 4:45am: Japan vs. Costa Rica (TSN/TSN3/TSN4) 7:45am: Belgium vs. Morocco (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 10:45am: Croatia vs. Canada (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 1:45pm: Spain vs. Germany

NFL FOOTBALL (TSN2) 1:00pm: Buccaneers vs. Browns (TSN2) 4:00pm: Raiders vs. Seahawks (TSN/TSN4/TSN5) 8:15pm: Packers vs. Eagles

NBA BASKETBALL (SN) 3:00pm: Trailblazers vs. Nets (SN1) 5:00pm: Heat vs. Hawks (SN Now) 6:00pm: Wizards vs. Celtics (TSN2) 8:00pm: Mavericks vs. Bucks

WHEN I THINK OF CHRISTMAS (W Network) 6:00pm: Sara reunites with her ex-boyfriend, Josh, when she returns to her hometown to help her mother move. When Sara makes a surprising discovery, she and Josh forge a bold plan for an upcoming Christmas concert that takes them back to their musical roots.

NHL HOCKEY (TSN3) 7:00pm: Jets vs. Blackhawks (SN) 8:00pm: Canucks vs. Sharks (TSN5) 10:30pm: Sens vs. Kings

HEARTLAND (CBC) 7:00pm: Amy leads an overnight trail ride to help with Jessica's new photography job; on the ride, Amy and Jack have a disagreement about Finn; Lou's latest mayoral event upsets Rick...AND THE HORSIES!

HOLIDAY HARMONY (Crave) 7:05pm: With just two weeks to get to the iHeartRadio Christmas Eve performance of her dreams, singer/songwriter Gail takes on a group of misfit kids hoping to perform in a Christmas Eve Gala of their own.

FRIDAY NIGHT THUNDER (APTN) 7:30pm: It's the final Humberstone double-header of the season and the drivers have one last chance to improve their finishing position on the Knights of Thunder leaderboard. Then, they all share some updates on what they plan to do next.

CHRISTMAS IN WOLF CREEK (Super Channel Heart & Home) 7:30pm: A woman and her new boyfriend are struggling to maintain their relationship. However, when a runaway reindeer threatens the annual Christmas play, the couple must work together to save Christmas for the town and each other.

THE GREAT CANADIAN BAKING SHOW HOLIDAY SPECIAL (CBC) 8:00pm: Four bakers from previous seasons return to the tent for a chance to become the Holiday Star Baker.

HUDSON & REX (City TV) 8:00pm: When the maid-of-honor winds up dead after a bachelorette party, it´s up to Charlie and Rex to untangle the events of the night.

THE BIG BAKE (Food Network Canada) 8:00pm: Brad Smith gets the kitchen jingle bell rockin' as the baking teams work in harmony to create cakes inspired by a favorite festive tune. They'll have to work in sync to get judges Ron Ben-Israel, Eddie Jackson and Danni Rose singing their praises.

A SUGAR & SPICE HOLIDAY (City TV) 9:00pm: Suzie, a rising young architect, returns to her small hometown in Maine for Christmas. When she gets there, she is pushed to follow her grandmother's footsteps and enter the local gingerbread house competition.

BEYOND OAK ISLAND (History Canada) 9:00pm: The Best of Beyond Oak Island: Marty and Rick Lagina meet in the War Room with Matty Blake and Gary Drayton to review and discuss the future of the most compelling treasure hunts they've explored so far.

AUSSIE GOLD HUNTERS (Discovery Canada) 9:00pm

WHO KILLED THE LYON SISTERS? (Investigation Discovery) 9:00pm: A detailed investigation into the 1975 disappearance of Sheila and Katherine Lyon, two sisters in Wheaton, Md., whose case was reopened after nearly 40 years when a police detective came across a potential lead.

BERNIE LANGILLE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO BERNIE LANGILLE (Documentary) 9:00pm: His grandfather's mysterious death has haunted Bernie Langille's family for more than fifty years. Was he murdered?

OUTBACK OPAL HUNTERS (Discovery Canada) 10:00pm: The Blacklighters' claim runs dry; the Young Guns have big machines but they're running out of safe ground.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND (History Canada) 10:00pm: While on a research mission in England, Marty, Alex, and Charles are thrilled to uncover more evidence connecting the Knights Templar to the Oak Island mystery.

SEEKING FIRE (Super Channel Fuse) 10:00pm: Filmmakers Ian Bawa and Quan Luong travel the world to examine people's relationship with money and how financial independence can fuel passion. They meet people who are financially free and explore their own relationships with money.

GOT IDENTITY (APTN) 11:30pm: Nelson meets with Indigenous comedian Ron Kanutski to talk about his experience at a Canadian school. The pair discusses the impact of assumptions being made about their culture and then delves into the lack of awareness about Indigenous Peoples.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #heartland #friday night thunder #the great canadian baking show #hudson & rex #the big bake #aussie gold hunters #outback opal hunters #the curse of oak island #got identity #fifa world cup #nfl football #nba basketball #nhl hockey

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disappearinginq · 2 years

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🥚🌾🎨🌈 and The scene you worked the hardest on in any fic?

🥚 Any easter eggs you put in a fic that you hoped people would notice?

You know, I don't know....I don't know if they count as Easter Eggs, but Constantine is mentioned a few times in Damnatio (before he showed up on Legends of Tomorrow and no one remembered the short lived but brilliant TV series on NBC with Matt Ryan), and MacGyver is alluded to in Bad Things Happen in Magnum. 🌾 A fic you really want to write but you haven’t (yet)?

There are a couple in vastly varying fandoms: one for the Umbrella Academy where it would likely be AU (but every season is an AU, so, techncially that would be canon?) where instead of the apocalypse or end of the world as we know it, TUA is more mundane crime stoppers a la Batman style, and they need Five to go undercover in a school for 'gifted' kids (smart kids versus super powers) and I get to channel all of my 'I don't care how smart the school thinks I am, I still hate it and I'm bored' self.

I have thrown myself SOLIDLY into the Hudson and Rex fandom (anyone who is here because of Magnum, you should really give that show a try - I liked it so much I bought a region free DVD player just so I could own it), so there's like...8 story ideas floating around in there.

Yellowstone - I hate, hate, HATE the media portrayal of adopted kids (whether still as children or as adults) throwing over on their adopted family in favor of the biological one because they always want to know 'who am I?' because out of the adopted kids (or even foster kids) I know, not one of them has been like eeeeeeey, lemme just tell the people who raised me, loved me, treated me as a very wanted child 'yOu'Re nOt mY ReAL mom/dad' and turned into a bad guy for the sake of drama, so the way that they're writing Jamie from second half of season 3 ALL through season 4 had me throwing shit at the TV over a show I used to love. So I have like...3 half finished fics where I don't necessarily RETCON the story line, but at least flesh out the characters and reasoning better (in my oh so humble opinion) so that it's not just Adopted Kid = Bad Kid.

Haunting of Hill House - I have I think like 10k words of a continuing story line that takes place between the last night at the House and when the 2 years later scene takes place that throws ALLLLLLLL the supernatural into it.

I also have a 9-1-1 genfic that is almost entirely written because I hate the shipping discord in that fandom and if I want to find genfic, I either have to read an established b*ddie fic where the romance is so background I can skip over it, or haunt the same three authors until I'm eventually reported for stalking. So I have a 5+1 for Dad!Bobby and Buck.

🎨 Show us a sneak peek from a WIP!

Joke's on you, I have like, 11 WIPS. So you get the random Yellowstone one, even though I don't know if you've seen the show.

Jamie didn’t move. His finger still held along the side of the rifle, not on the trigger, but John wondered how long that would be true. “I’ve always wondered, if given the chance, what I would change. Go back in time and make some other choice. Not listening to Beth when she told me to take her to the clinic so you wouldn’t find out? Not give the interview to that reporter? Not…” Jamie trailed off, staring blankly into the distance, and John watched as his finger jumped to the trigger and back off again. “Not like there’s a shortage of bad decisions to pick from, right? But do you know the one I keep coming back to?”

John could guess.

“We’ve been here before, son,” John said instead, wincing at the creak in his knees and the twinge from his shoulder as he sat down on ground in front of Jamie, hoping to get him to at least look at him. He saw the way Jamie flinched at the word ‘son’ as though John slapped him across the face. “You made the right decision then. You’ll make the right decision now.”

Jamie didn’t budge. The rifle barrel still rested underneath his chin, his grip white knuckled on the barrel and surprisingly light on the stock where his finger tapped against the trigger. “I didn’t know you told jokes, John. Maybe when the ranch is gone, you can take up comedy.”

John growled, ducking his head as he snatched at the tall grass, needing to do something with his hands so he didn’t do something he regretted. “You would make me watch another son die?”

“I wouldn’t hurt Kayce.”

“Jesus, Jamie -”

“Walk away. Whatever…whatever moral obligation you felt to take me in, to-to stop me from doing this the first time, I absolve you from. Just walk away, and come back tomorrow. Take my body to the train station if you have to - you don’t have to put on the show of putting me with Lee or Mom-” Jamie stopped short, sucking in a breath through clenched teeth before he amended it: “Evelyn. Then you can still visit them without visiting me. Just go away.”

He should’ve sent Rip. Or Kayce. Lloyd, for Chrissakes, would be better at this than him, but he wasn’t about to give up. “You think so little of me? I fucking raised you. And you think you can just tell me to walk away, let you kill yourself?”

“I’m not telling you to,” Jamie said quietly. “I’m giving you permission.”

“Jamie-”

“What the fuck do you care?” Jamie shouted, the abrupt anger catching John by surprise so that he jolted back. “Why the fuck can’t you just let me go? You’re the one who told me to do it in the first place - and now - now what? Now what? You’re - you’re angry? You think it’ll make you look like a bad father? I’ll look like a weak son? Fine. Fine. Give me a fucking piece of paper - shit, I’ll carve it into my skin if I have to, that this was one hundred percent me. My choosing. My choice. Tell the world I was fucking adopted, that I’m not yours, that this isn’t weakness from the Duttons, this is some lesser form of being choosing the coward’s way out - this is my two week’s notice - that I fucking quit.”

John was no good at this. What he wanted to do was rip the rifle out of Jamie’s hands and smack him upside the head with it. He wanted to force him to drop it, and make him think twice about ever picking it up again because clearly, the ‘kind and gentle way’ hadn’t given Jamie the perspective he thought it would. He wanted to shake him until his brain rattled enough in his skull to finally knock some sense into him, but Jamie was fast.

Too fast, sometimes. It was easy to forget when Jamie spent most of his life holding back. Forcing a smile on his face and going in whatever direction John pointed him in.

But holding everything in was like a simmering volcano, and unlike his other children who never gave their actions a second thought and just did, Jamie held back until he exploded. It was fast, furious, and Jamie almost always instantly regretted it, making it worse the next time. 🌈 Your favorite tropes to write about?

FOUND FAMILY. PLATONIC LOVE. ALL THE THINGS I WANT AND I CAN NEVER FIND. And naturally, hurt/comfort. probably because it's the only way to have characters to interact that doesn't have everyone asking me about

The scene you worked the hardest on in any fic?

Oh shit. Ummm. I'll use this as a "things that didn't just immediately flow on the keyboard and I had to stop every couple of minutes to look something up". Mostly things in Magnum because it takes place in the real world with real issues. So out of the published scenes - the surfing chapter in Bad Things (because I have never once been surfing) and the first chapter of Wrong Side because it's a lot to do with tactics and real scenarios while also trying to make it interesting to people who aren't familiar with the military. Also, there's a lot of hoop jumping to make anything realistic canon compliant in that fandom...

Thanks for the asks! (and letting me rant)

#asks answered #games we play #yellowstone fic #yellowstone tv #jamie dutton #magnum pi 2018 #I spend a lot of time researching down rabbit holes because apparently I might die if I just picked something that required no research #and just knew off the top of my head #which I guess would be the Yellowtsone fics because HORSES #I AT LEAST KNOW ABOUT HORSES AND RANCHING

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aceofwhump · 2 years

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Love the Jesse whump from Hudson and Rex. Is there any more? ;) thank you!!

Hi there! I'm so glad you like them! I have at least one more gifset to make but that's about it for now. I haven't gotten to season 4 yet though so I'm not sure if he's got any good whump in that season. If he does I'll absolutely gif it! And if there are any particular scenes you wanted me to gif that I haven't feel free let me know :)

#mod post #mod replies #ask #anon

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tvrundownusa · 1 month

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tvrundown USA 2024.05.09

Thursday, May 9th:

(exclusive): Bodkin (netflix, Irish dark comedy thriller, all 7 eps), "Thank You, Next" (netflix, Turkish dramedy romance, all 8 eps), "Black Twitter: A People's History" (hulu, docuseries, all 3 parts), "Maxton Hall - The World Between Us" (APrime, private school drama, all 6 eps)

(streaming specials): Eurovision Song Contest 2024 (Peacock, semifinals contd, live), "Everybody's In L.A." (netflix, comedy event in primetime, night 5)

(movies): "The Deadly Getaway" (BET+, thriller), "Deadly Invitations" (TUBI, thriller, ~90mins), "Mother of the Bride" (netflix, rom-com, 90mins), "The Guardian of the Monarchs" (netflix, butterfly documentary, ~90mins)

(streaming weekly): Star Trek: Discovery (Para+), Hacks (MAX, next 2 eps), Six Is Not A Crowd: "Felices Los 6" (MAX, next 2 eps), The Girls on the Bus (MAX, season 1 finale), Pretty Little Liars (MAX, season 2 "Summer School" opener), Scrublands (SundanceNow|AMC+), Beyond Paradise (BritBox, season 2 finale), Love Undercover (Peacock, unscripted comedy, first 3 eps), Dinner with the Parents (freevee, next 2 eps, season 1 finale), The GOAT (freevee, reality stars competition premiere, first 3 eps), My Mane Problem (AllBlk), Delicious in Dungeon (netflix), Frankly Speaking (netflix)

(original made-for-TV movies): "The Manny" (LMN, 2hrs)

(hour 1): Law & Order (NBC), 9-1-1 (ABC), Young Sheldon (CBS, 60mins), Hudson & Rex (UPtv, season 5 finale), Next Level Chef (FOX, season 3 finale)

(hour 2): Law & Order: SVU (NBC), Grey's Anatomy (ABC), So Help Me Todd (CBS, penultimate), Lovers and Liars (theCW), Farmer Wants a Wife (FOX)

(hour 3): Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC), Station 19 (ABC), Elsbeth (CBS), Welcome to Wrexham (FX), It Couldn't Happen Here (Sundance|AMC+), John Mulaney Presents: "Everybody's In L.A." (netflix, night 5/6)

(hour 4 - latenight): The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (COM, special night)

#PLL #Eurovision #JonStewart #BlackTwitter #television

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gloriousharmonylover · 6 months

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Strangers in the Night: Charlie and Sarah wearing his 'n' hers sunglasses at the start. I realise I'm clutching at straws here!

#hudson and rex #season 2 premiere #season 2 episode 4 for some people #I can stop these random tags now #charlie hudson #sarah truong #charlie hudson x sarah truong #charah

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starry-mist · 9 months

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Presenting: The unofficial Hudson & Rex Season 6 countdown! (Please ignore my complete lack of graphic design skills.)

A fun little challenge/hopefully some creative inspiration as we wait for the season 6 premiere.

The Rules: There are none! Participate as much/as little as you want! Create whatever you like, whether it be gifs, fanfic, blog posts, etc... I'll make an AO3 collection for fic, but if you want a Tumblr/other socials tag, I'm going to suggest #rexseason6 or maybe #everyoneneedsaseason6

The Plan: Once we know the official season premiere date, we'll call that Day 10 and update accordingly. For example, if the premiere were to be October 4, we would designate September 25 as Day 1. For now, if you want to plan ahead, if you want to post early, whatever you like, go for it!

The prompts:

Day 1: Favourite character

Day 2: Favourite episode

Day 3: Favourite season

Day 4: Favourite moment

Day 5: Favourite ship/dynamic

Day 6: Favourite takedown

Day 7: Favourite team moment

Day 8: Favourite recurring/guest character

Day 9: Favourite villain

Day 10: Choose your own adventure! Some ideas thanks to @somefandomcontent @gloriousharmonylover @themisanthropiclycanthrope are: favourite outfit, favourite location, favourite whump moment, favourite line spoken by favourite character, headcanons, fanon hills you will die on, etc.

Hopefully this generates some excitement leading up to season 6! Happy creating!

#hudson & rex #rexseason6 #everyoneneedsaseason6 #hudson and rex season 6 countdown

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alicepao13 · 5 months

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I'm going to write a long ass thing about the Hudson and Rex show through the seasons, inspired by the rewatch posts that I've been seeing. It's not a review, though. It's just how I saw it from my point of view. Also, I reserve the right to make "The Great Hudson and Rex Rewatch of [insert year]" tag if and when I rewatch it and review episodes individually then.

So, if anyone followed this blog circa early 2020 (pre pandemic), I'd probably made a "Oh my god there is a new Rex adaptation and this time it's in English!" post. I don't remember it, but I know I'd told quite a few people online and off when I had found out. Also, so lame that I found out when they were already in S2 but anyway.

Right off the bat, I realized that the people making Hudson and Rex had not quite understood the assignment. The premise of the show and the cases were never meant to be light and fluffy like the dog. Instead, the dog was supposed to be the counterweight, the uplifting part. Most cases were supposed to be grimy and dark. Creepy. With bad guys that would make your skin crawl. Instead, Hudson and Rex mostly had bad guys that were pretty tame, aside from a few notable exceptions. And they put a guy on the helm of this show that was previously scripting kid shows, I mean, that's enough to tell me they weren't meaning to get deep into it.

It's also why for me the show got way better after S2 (when they changed showrunners). Which was, let's face it, ginormous and never ending (not having any info on when it was supposed to end also had made it seem that way from my part, as literally no tv scheduler of mine had that info back then). To be fair, another reason was because I wasn't invested at the time, and I wasn't invested because I'd seen how light the show was and how unwilling everyone involved was to go a bit deeper into it (from the writers to the producers to the cast). And I think I initially noticed a few signs that that was changing in S3, which allowed me to get more invested into it. [Note: I still maintain that the last few episodes aside from the finale of S2 were pretty good, but they aired at a point where I was already wondering where the hell the season ended.]

Onward to season 3. For a season that had been produced in a difficult period of time under difficult circumstances, with Covid and the crime shows being accused of copaganda, a few, let's say, unusual choices were made. Still, that season was better and way more interesting than the other two. And not as long, which helped. Again, the premise of the show was never supposed to be 20 episodes per season, it is very taxing on the cast, on the dog, and to everyone who has to perform and do their best in a shorter amount of time. So, S3 had 16 episodes, and it fared better. There were stakes, they played a bit more with the romance between Charlie and Sarah, things were moving. Somewhat.

Kudos to them for electing not to put Covid in their world. I'm not necessarily against that but I didn't need it to be inserted into every show I was watching. Also, kudos to them for Charlie's new house, it's really nice (although I will repeat that I'm not sure how exactly he could afford it).

And then we get to season 4, and boy oh boy, have I ever misjudged a season so much. I mean, if it hadn't been so poorly executed, I'd have said that it was all my fault for being impatient. Do you ever see how things will turn out early on, guess all the major plot points that would happen, and then say to yourself, "No, that's not it, because there's no way they'd do such and such and such to make that happen, it's so stupid"? This is what happened here. And I'm not sure what had frustrated me more back then, that I had thought I'd been wrong about where S4 was headed or that the more we were hitting the plot points that I had anticipated would happen, the more disjointed the story was becoming. Like an orchestra that was playing a known score out of tune the entire time. I'm not sure whether I'd choose the word dissonance or discordance for it, but if we were to isolate the moments, they were actually good. The angst was good. The pining, very good. But as a whole, it didn't always make sense and that was frustrating, as it made it hard to guess everyone's intentions and motive behind their actions.

A lot of my issues had to do with how they were writing Sarah's character as well in that season because as an audience, I should know whether she had actually truly tried to move on from her crush on Charlie or she was dating because she didn't think her feelings were reciprocated and Michael was just... there. That would have made a difference. But I suspect that it was very intentional to not give anything away, though that doesn't mean I have to like it or more importantly that it was executed in a sensible way. Charlie's spiral into what in other shows would have endangered his career (not here, though, no, sir) was great and I would have liked to have seen way more of that, and more of his friends worrying about him, and more of him pulling away from everyone and having that acknowledged. I'd have liked to see him more upset too. More importantly, I'd have liked to see a real reason for his character regression other than "the girl I like doesn't like me back :'( " like for example, the dozens of times he had been in a traumatizing situation. That, combined with what he assumed was unrequited feelings, would have made a perfect cocktail of explosive emotions.

To be honest, I don't understand why the perception of the fandom to this day is the same as it was when we were going through the episodes of S4 because post season clarity offers a different perspective entirely. It's understandable to be upset when you watch it unfold in real time. That's what the rewatches are for, to see the season as a whole. Yes, a few decisions on the script were hare-brained [I still don't understand how Sarah went from "I forgive you Michael for lying to me about important stuff and we're good and making headway in our relationship" to "I don't know where this is going" in two episodes, and the only logical (non-episode shuffling) explanation is that she was just waiting for Charlie to express his feelings, whom in her place I'd have punched and refuse to call a friend anymore if he had waited to find the courage, or more like the audacity, to express his feelings just as he thought he was losing the woman he wanted to another man when said woman was free a few months ago]. But to me, the emotions the episodes elicited regarding their relationship were always more like "oh these damn fools don't see what's right in front of them" and not "I want to stop watching this bullshit right now". It is actually very similar to Castle's S4, although the execution on Castle did not make me want to cuss Andrew Marlowe. With Peter Mitchell, well, I can't say the same thing.

Anyway, as we can probably safely assume right now, a lot of their relationship and whether it would progress or not had been hanging on a wire. The actual cliffhanger and some of the interviews pretty much confirm that theory. And I assume that probably influenced the execution too. So, I'm giving it a bit of slack.

Going on to S5, we flat-lined and I'll explain that. I'd have liked to be able to say that it was better than S4 but it wasn't. It wasn't worse either but it was really bland at times. And it gave me the impression that they were given more episodes than they could handle. I'll say it again, this show should never have 20 episodes ever again, it puts a big strain on everyone.

What was good about S5 was that it gave characters other than Charlie and Rex, mainly Joe and Jesse, a few more moments to shine. It also had one of the best season finales of the show so far. No, I don't need a character in danger of dying every time to call it a good finale, but I do need the season finale to be intense and high stakes. Which did not happen in S2, S3, and damn, I don't even know which one to call season finale in S1. Imagine that.

They wasted two perfectly good episodes for me by making up an entire set of new characters for a two-parter that I could have sworn was serving as backdoor pilot, but wasn't. I still don't know what that was. Again, the only logical explanation was that they were given episodes (and money) that they didn't know how to put to good use. Those were two pretty good episodes that could be a part of most crime shows, but they were not Hudson and Rex episodes. Not if we consider the premise of this show. Everyone was separated, Charlie was off doing his own thing (I won't get into availability issues, as a production it is most embarrassing to not be able to find a viable schedule for your main lead and I refuse to cut any production slack for that), and Rex was literally thrown to the wolves.

The most bland part for me in S5 was the middle. The pace of the episodes really struggled there. And then suddenly it moved in what I saw as an accelerated pace, the two-parter and the last four episodes seemed like they had come out of a different show or different season, if you were to look at the mellow pace of the season up to that point.

Again, I must note the lack of transferability of emotions, consequences, experiences, etc., from one season to the next. However, I must also say that they made a bit more of an effort to bring back people, characters, and storylines in S5 to remind us of past seasons, even though they mainly stuck to the small things.

For me, it was a big mistake to make Charlie be the perfect guy again after S4. He had been struggling, and no one can convince me that behaviors such as what he had exhibited before were only because he was feeling rejected and was "cured" like magic in the next season. And it shouldn't be that way, he has gone through some serious stuff, which the show is trying to downplay all the time.

Also, the cop's "white whale" case is a pretty common trope. It should be decided by the writers before the scripting of S1. Otherwise, we have them not reacting appropriately to the dozens of similar cases that they come across until the writers decide what the cop's white whale case is supposed to be. Taking a couple of seasons to write it is usual. Deciding that in S5? I've personally never seen it happen and I've been watching crime shows for more than two decades now. Retconning is a huge favorite with the writers of this show.

Charlie and Sarah's relationship development was a big feature in S5, and it was mostly good stuff. I didn't like that they didn't have one fight but their stability was also nice. And when I say one fight, I dislike manufactured drama that comes out of nowhere but there are so many significant reasons, especially when they keep getting in danger, to have a fight. Now that I'm thinking about it, the tagline of S5 should be "stability".

Jesse growing up and going for detective was something I wasn't expecting, and you can also see the progress of that storyline somewhat in S5, and Joe coming to terms with the fact that Jesse can do this. He was pretty much the last one that needed to be convinced of this, the way I see it.

I'm refraining from making comments about S6 since we've only watched 6 episodes. I want to see where that ends up. The only comment I'll make regarding that is that I don't think the production company cares much about anything other than Charlie and Rex, it's basically up to individual writers and the showrunner to write anything else, and, regardless of how fans perceive S4, we should be glad to have had someone like Peter Mitchell at the helm of the show, who made any kind of meaningful change between Charlie and Sarah, because it doesn't seem like anybody else was willing to put their ass on the line for those two.

All in all, this is a show that it seems to me like from the start, not a lot of people believed in it, despite evidence that people in the other side of the world had once loved it (and since it already had another adaptation, I'd have called it a safe bet). It's certainly in a better place now than it was when it had its first season, it terms of production, performance, and creativity, and I think that sometimes we forget that because we've watched like 90 episodes. No, it doesn't always meet my expectations but maybe I also shouldn't compare it to the dozens of shows I've watched which certainly have a bigger budget than this one, which don't depend on dog tricks to get people's attention (I don't say this to make fun of the show, dog tricks is what they do, it's like half of the show). But I also cannot refrain from criticizing mistakes that could have easily been avoided, had they made a little more effort.

#hudson and rex #holy shit that got away from me #not my best work in terms of cohesion #also not much rex in there and that's because I never have an issue with their partnership or the dog stunts and such they are good #the issues are like everything else lol #the 'human and dog solve crimes' aspect is usually pretty good #but you need to blend it well with the rest of the ingredients to make something nice

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