WILD CARDS – created by Michael Konyves (limited spoilers) Police Detective Cole Ellis (Giacomo Gianniotti) has a new sidekick, and he’s not sure it’s a good thing. A year ago, his brother Daniel was killed in an apparently random mugging. …
WILD CARDS – Episode 108 – Eternal Sunshine of the Therapized Mind – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Dr. Sophie Fernwood, renowned therapist and self-help guru, is found floating face down in her swimming pool, dead. Cole (Giacomo Gianniotti) and Max (Vanessa …
WILD CARDS – Season 1 Episode 9 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ On a Saturday, Max (Vanessa Morgan) gets a call from her butler Ricky (Fletcher Donovan). She is downtown, and walking to some unspecified location. “I’m calling,” he says, “to …
WILD CARDS – Season 2 Episode 1 (limited spoilers) ⁓ Max (Vanessa Morgan) and her sidekick Ricky (Fletcher Donovan) were on their way out of town with a 33 million dollar Fabergรฉ Egg until Ricky, in the course of transcribing …
WILD CARDS – Season 2 Episode 2 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Cole (Giacomo Gianniotti) is having breakfast with his cat when a woman he doesn’t know (Naomi Simpson) tells him his scuppers need cleaning. He assures her that the boat …
WILD CARDS – Episode 203- The Lorne Identity – (limited spoilers) ⁓ It is Cole’s late brother Daniel’s birthday. Max (Vanessa Morgan) comes into the office without being summoned because, she says: “They’re setting up wifi in my condo, which …
WILD CARDS – Dial ‘A’ for Alibi – (limited spoilers) ⁓ The episode title comes from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Dial ‘M’ For Murder“, but the story is largely an homage to the other Hitchcock film released in 1954, “Rear Window“. Max …
WILD CARDS – Catch Me If You Con – limited spoilers ⁓ After being cooped up for weeks with a sprained ankle, Max (Vanessa Morgan) is looking for something to do. Ricky (Fletcher Donovan) and his amateur theatre group are …
LUCY BETTS-TAYLOR – Ludwig – Anna Maxwell Martin An aspiring photographer, Lucy is “still doing endless weddings and bonneted babies”, and has been married for twenty-odd years to DCI James Taylor. When her husband disappears she decides to make the …
In “Bride and Doom” (episode 211), Max (Vanessa Morgan) can’t join her father George (Jason Priestley) on the anniversary of his wedding to his late wife. She and Cole (Giacomo Gianniotti) are busy trying to solve the murder of a …
WILD CARDS – Episode 301 – Rack ’em Up – (some spoilers) ⁓ Cole (Giacomo Gianniotti) has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the investigation of his brother’s death (see previous post), and is back on the job. He tells …
