Moonlight

Friday, April 25th @ 10 PM
CBS
Moonlight - Season 1 - Episode 13 - "Fated to Pretend"

Beth's Editor is murdered and Mick and Beth pursue leads on the killer. Mick and Beth struggle to make decisions about their relationship and now that Mick is Mortal. Mick faces an agonizing decision regarding the price of Mortality.

Manatee: I did not want to put Marmot through the disaster that was Moonlight last week. "Why so nice?" you ask?

Well, I have seen all 13 episodes to date, and I cannot tell you why. The first one was terrible, but for "business reasons," I came back and watched 4 more online in the fall, and somehow I got hooked. Hmmm... I'd have to say it was the romance between Mick and Beth that kept me coming back. A few episodes later I had set my DVR to record the series.

As I watched Friday's episode, I realized I was embarrassed to have asked Marmot to watch this show with me; how could I have admitted that I actual liked Moonlight?! It was supposed to be my secret. My dirty little passion for bad television. Call me a sucker... what can I say - I liked Mick and I wanted to see him get together with Beth. Though, thinking about it now, it's a pretty gross situation considering he is over 80 years old and has known Beth since she was 4 but hey, what can I say, they make a cute couple, vampire or no vampire?

In fact, I started thinking about all the terrible television I watched pre strike (and pre this blog) - Bionic Woman (again, I watched for the romance between the part-bionic woman and some cute-ish CIA agent, though that was possibly a worse show than Under One Roof.) & Gossip Girl (though I don't think it stinks, I am a huge fan, I enjoy the unlikely romance between Serena and Dan).

Friday night, the truth was glaring. It was staring me down, saying "Manatee, why did you ask Marmot, your friend, to sit through an hour of this?" It's a bad show! The dialogue is heinous. The acting is over the top. It does not even look that good: Mick walking down the beach, shirt open, wind in his hair (Note: Someone stopped hitting the gym during the strike.). I quickly regretted my mistake about halfway through, and called Marmot and said cancel this show stat. Luckily, I caught Marmot in time.

However, the last 10 minutes of Friday night's episode got me! Sucked me right back into this LA underground vampire world. Mick needs to make a big decision, stay mortal (for an undetermined length of time) and see Beth die, or turn back into a vampire (a state which he has been cursing all his unnatural life) and save the woman he loves? A very emotional decision. He chooses love of course, becomes Beth's "Guardian Vampire" again and saves her life. As they stand atop his downtown LA apartment, she gives your typical female speech:

Beth: It's not me you're scared of hurting, it's yourself you don't want to hurt.

I scream (in my head): Hurry up Mick and decide, you've only had 22 years to think about this little girl budding into a perky blond journalist (Creepy!). Now's the time to strike, you may have the rest of your immortal life to think about it, but she doesn't. They kiss, and cut! And I couldn't be happier.

You've guessed right, ...yes, I will be sitting in front of my TV this Friday night watching episode #14.