Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

I won’t deny this: as much as I love these guys, TLG, some of the episodes in their series just leave much to be desired with me. I have nothing against lightweight, light-hearted material, but I can’t help but feel while watching the show that there is so much more potential in the characters and their use. Regardless, this episode deals with TLG pursuing evidence on a Southern Senator who might have been involved in the death of an aid to his campaign which resulted in a child. TLG find this child with Frohike and Langly taking care of him while Byers and Jimmy Bond seek out proof against Senator Jefferson (Christopher Rich). A “deep throat” within the campaign offers clues to Jefferson’s affairs, illegitimate child, and the aid’s death. Jimmy even snookers his way into a campaign job, gaining trust with Jefferson’s two main aids (Randy Becker & Enid-Raye Adams) despite some really goofish behavior (the whole glue/envelope fiasco has to be seen to be believed). Rich’...

This is the conclusion of the first season, the final two episodes. Emma finally meets her tormenter and out of the remaining characters the final two episodes will determine who that is. The seesaw drama for Emma will at least conclude for a little while and she will finally discover the perpetrator of the one causing her all her ills. At least for the first season, Emma will appear to have the killer unveiled and know who she can and cannot trust. The slasher genre loves to reveal its killer as someone unexpected, a total surprise for the prey. He or she has concocted a certain personality or behavior that doesn’t necessarily warrant suspicion.  I realized in the middle of the final episode of Scream: The TV Series, the first season, Revelations , that I felt confidant the killer was Piper. It was a tell when Piper kept returning to Emma about visits to Brandon James’ mom. It was this supposed revelation that Kieran was the face she recalled of the ...