Major Crimes: Season 2, Episode 12 “Pick Your Potion” (B)
I didn’t even realize that this show was coming back for the last few episodes of its second season, and when I did find that out, I forgot all about it until a few days after the mid-season premiere aired. Since the summer, which feels much longer ago than it was, I haven’t thought about this show at all, and wasn’t sure that I’d return to watch more of it. Yet it’s airing just in that time between when cable shows have just finished and their replacements haven’t yet started, so it seems like I’ll be sticking around for now. There was a lot happening in this episode, and a complex case with some surprising developments and a relatively simple finish. An unapologetic school teacher who slept with a student because she was impressed with his English language skills makes for a solid protagonist, and her jealous vice principal husband a fitting killer. I was less taken with the unbelievably inconsistent Sykes, who got a chance to appear powerful and then utterly disgusted by her behavior, far less on and aware of things going on around her than usual. Emma also seems purposely planted in the room to provoke the Major Crimes squad members into revealing just how cleverly they’re tiptoeing the legal line at every juncture. Rusty trying to figure out who’s sending him the letters seems like the most productive use of his character in a while, and it’s about time he started doing something other than look for a psychiatrist who plays chess.
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