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!LIVEBLOG Reaction/Review POST! The Blue Rose 1×09 Suffer Little Children

The Blue Rose: Monday 9:30pm TV3

Type Jane type!

Krystle ya batch.

Ugh Derek Peterson care’s only about riding motorbikes and drinking, Charlie’s right.

Charlie, still trynna get his ins.

Of course Krystle’s gonna put her on port-o-loos.

BLUE ROSE TEAM MEETING! Everyone’s present. Well and good.

Peterson’s still a major suspect, yeh. Dodgy guy. Duh.

Bunny boiler? Felicity was caught driving under the influence on the night Rose died? Curious. Curious.

YUSS MORE VARSHA! But only because they need arrest details on Felicity the crazy wife.

“I’ll seduce Varsha and be back in time for Battlestar Galactica.”

Dude Monique’s dumb. She’s getting Catfished! Stop, just call MTV.

Deal struck because Ganesh is good with his hands. Awww yeah.

Back at the charity event the Bikers arrive!

Over to Varsha and Ganesh helping this week’s cause for concern, Monique. Wow Monique’s got an ancient computer.

The bad man’s at the charity event! The BAD MAN!!! He’s part of the Bikers!

Oh God Felicity.

Krystle still calls Linda the mental girl. Peterson likes the look of Linda doesn’t he? Oh damn he just put Krystle in her place.

Annnnnnd BOUNCED by Linda. Peterson’s barking up the wrong tree.

“Would you like a sausage.” “No I would not like a sausage.” COUGH. Is that true, Linda?

AD BREAKS ARE THE DEVIL!

Ganesh is taking agers in the bathroom, because he’s getting the dirt on Monique’s catfish.

Linda and Grant, anyone ship it? Yeah, me neither. Bad man with the tattooed neck- Grant knows him and I bet by the end of the episode he’s going to wish he didn’t know him.

Ongoing association with the ride for life and Peterson’s sketchiness. Ugh. Helen. What’s your deal?

Wow $60,000 does this help Peterson sleep at night?

What’s Peterson saying to Charlie?

Bad Man = Karl Villiers. Awesome, Ganesh points out that it’s lame calling the Bad Man the Bad Man. Agreement.

Felicity is nice and normal until she goes apeshit on you.

Monique’s Catfish actually lives in Takapuna. Haha brilliant.

Simon and Jane, who’s shipping it? Me neither.

No Simon, she means Karl Villiers

Ah, Helen was a criminal lawyer. Bet she WAS paid in drugs.

Jane notices things that would be useful to the case of the missing puppies. Wait.

Catfish operates from an internet cafe. Oh man, awesome. Just playing some- what’s a game that guys go to internet cafes to play? Well playing that game and catfishing some chicks.

Sonya packed lunch, back to loving her. They’re on a stakeout.

Whoa shit, Catfish used his real photo? Sonya’s going to steal Catfish’s bike to get him out.

Jesus Linda what is your problem? Let me count the ways. Karl’s got his fingers in a few pies? More like he’s got his fist in a few- okay that went wrong. Grant didn’t have Rose killed. You read it here first. Heh.

MORE ADS TO FUND THE GADS!

Catfish ‘someone’ stole your bike! By someone I mean me (Sonya) and it’s in the back of my car. Ganesh you better have gotten the deets. And boom, Ganesh comes through. Sonya’s got a thing for Catfish, watch out he’s got a thing for well- everyone. And a penchant for trying to scam people.

Charlie sneaking up on Jane while she’s filing. Now niggle the info out of him. Ah, makes sense. Peterson’s helping Charlie’s pops out with funding for his lawyer.

BLUE ROSE GANG MEETING: Helen represented Villiers in 1998, when I was 10. They are old. Old as balls. Okay, not that old. Linda also doesn’t think Grant did it. Linda’s hotheadedness strike again and she’s out of there!

Grant’s turned up at Linda’s house to ‘talk’ about Linda’s accusations. I’m hoping they don’t reconnect- yeah I mean hook up. Especially since everyone’s convinced that Linda’s into chicks.

Brad from Hawaii - aka Catfish, is actually Mark I didn’t catch his last name or where he’s from but I’m going to keep calling him Catfish anyway. Damn 18 women on the go, from 6 different countries. Holy shmuck. Varsha, you need to tell Monique.

Subtle dig at Ganesh there from Varsha. Yeah Ganesh, Varsha’s a human being. Treat her better.

So they decide they’re going to set a honey trap. Nope that doesn’t mean they’re going to put honey on his door and wait for him to walk into it. That would be stupid.

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Linda’s just showing Grant everything here. She’s trusting him with a bit here. Grant better not make us regret this. Grant do you understand how much she’s trusting you right now?

And now they’re all trying their hand at Catfishing. Setting up the bait for the trap. Sonya just leaves people about in her house? Break up letter from Catfish for Monique as written by Ganesh, I’m pretty sure it would be better to just tell her the truth. Ganesh is bringing Varsha to tears here. Damn Ganesh. Aw. AWWWWWWWW.

Beautiful shot of Auckland, man this show sure knows how to make Auckland look even more beautiful.

Receptionist who’s had like 5 lines, hi!

Krystle, why do you want to know Linda’s contact details? OH, Derek Peterson wants to talk to her ew. And give her his private number.

Yeah Derek Peterson wants Linda’s D. Linda’s not very subtle, but she’s not a moron. DO IT. TALK TO HIM. She’s so going to call him. Hahahahahahaha

Grant’s talking to Karl and- oh man is he going to outright, dude. Maybe Linda’s not the only unsubtle person about. Grant you’re only asking for trouble asking Karl about his whereabouts of Karl on the night of Rose’s death GAH ADS.

BONES AD just to remind me that I’m really behind. Ugh. Drink pump and make water- I mean make LIKE water. But you do make water. Hahahaha

Grant isn’t that stupid. Heh. Yeah well Nina’s missing now and I bet I know what’s happened to her. Also, it was in the promo but still. Even if I didn’t know.

Whoa creepy, Karl picked her up from school and brought her home. Don’t talk to stranger Nina, no matter what they say about being friends with your parents.

Karl shut your trap you piece of vermin trash. Grant if you give up Linda’s name- oh good.

Catfish took the bait! Catfished, for Catfished haha. Mark Columbine from Mairangi Bay. You certainly CAN be anyone over the internet. I’m Bob on some site. Bob Cheney from Texas. It’s all a bit of a laugh.

Sonya laying down the law, being the NZ division of (not so)Anonymous. Why, Catfish? Um, you’re scamming people out of their money, that’s why.

Ugh, Monique, Mata says you’re dumb.

Ganesh and Varsha, do you ship it? Yeah, I do. Aww and she got the information for him. Hahahahahahahahhahaha Sonya charged the room to Catfish’s credit card and waxed alco-ma-hol from the mini-bar. Brilliant.

Felicity was being abusive- but she’s got an alibi. However it puts Simon back on the radar because he’s got 9 hours unaccounted for before picking Felicity up from the station.

Grant’s going away with Nina, probably best. He didn’t give up Linda’s name at least. Linda loves you too ratbag. *Sadface*

Holy shacks Linda’s meeting up with Peterson!!!

END EPISODE. Feature length episodes from next week onward! And DAMN THINGS ARE HEATING UP! Like guys, one of you could be doing the killer. Just uh, putting that out there.

Special Mentions:

- I’m glad that no children actually suffered in the making of this week’s episode.

- Reaction post/liveblog over and out. What were YOUR reactions? Here are some tweets!

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The Blue Rose 1×06 Paint a Vulgar Picture

The Blue Rose: Monday 9:30pm TV3

Took me ages to try to watch the Blue Rose OnDemand today because it was crazy slow. C’mon guys, get it together. Eventually the episode loaded and I was able to see the gang get to work!

I found myself thinking Sonya needed to pull her head out of her, excuse the language, bum this week. Which is mean because we know that David, aka the homeless guy with whom she’d formed a bond, had just died and she was dealing with her feels.

Looks like Elizabeth is catching on as her name. She’ll always be Sonya to me. Right, so this week she was all kinds of stubborn and gullible when it came to our subplot’s supposed victim. It grated slightly on my nerves, I know she seemed to be projecting the helplessness of David onto this Hayley character but it made Hayley’s manipulation seem even more obvious and when Ganesh proved it, I felt even angrier because it made Sonya look slightly foolish in her refusal to listen to reason for more than half of the episode.

It was nice to see Ganesh take a stand, however, at the end. Not just in terms of how he was able to overcome his fear of his crazy ex girlfriend played by Nisha Madhan (another ex-Shorty actress) and manage to get her to help, but also in terms of being more confident up against Linda and Sonya. When he goes on his own mission, taking on a Charlie (from Charlie’s Angels) persona to get more intel on Hayley I couldn’t help but do a slight encouraging fistpump. Look at him being all slick.

Ganesh being all slick.

There were a few dodgy puns this week but Ganesh was right, get your minds out of the sewer!

We get more of Charlie this week, getting some insight into the junior lawyer who’s been trying to get Jane to have a drink with him since day one. Remember I speculated that there might be more to him than the firm bottom feeder, okay I made a remark about him somehow being the culprit that counts as speculation! However really the big reveal about him is just that he’s a druggie. It’s sad that something like taking drugs could be spoken about in such blase terms but them’s the breaks. He’s also the last person to have spoken to Rose before she died, which, according to police records Ganesh got from Varsha, wasn’t from hitting her head after she fell into the water but rather before she drowned. Well well well, maybe I’m right about Charlie turning out to be the killer after all? Nah, just because he takes a bit of the drugs doesn’t make him a killer.

Next week looks good. This person agrees.

Special Mentions:

- Anyone else think Rose took that picture with the annoying chick in order to snap a shot of the Bad Man?

- Varsha, bitches be crazy! Secretly love her and hope she and Ganesh end up together. I ship it, I will go down with this ship.

- That photographer’s a bit of a name dropper, and by ‘a bit’ I mean he’s a name dropper. However he does prove useful. They’ve got a visual of the bad man with the tattoo. And it looks like Varsha has more help for us next week, according to the preview she knows what the tattoo on his neck is.

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The Blue Rose 1×05: Pretty Girls Make Graves

The Blue Rose: Monday 9:30pm TV3Tonight’s episode (episode 5 of 13) took a turn for the dark. I know I know, it’s a show about how a rag tag group of people come together after the death of a personal assistant (a friend to 3 out of 4 of them) who knew too much, felt too much and by the looks of things- trusted too much. It might not be that the show turned dark on us, it’s just that with Rose’s back-story and the events thus far about Rose’s life didn’t quite resonate so much with us on an emotional level. There’s something about the homeless guy’s sense of redemption in this episode that really seemed to click.

The Homeless guy, who’s real name is David Quilter played by Seth Flynn, ran from Jane and Linda that first time they encountered him and we hadn’t seen him since, that is until this episode. David’s aversion to the police runs deeper than what we had initially thought, of course. We know he found Rose’s body and when the gang first started out asking questions we were forced to come to the assumption that he was the culprit, or knew something about it. The problem, we come to discover, is that David Quilter also knew too much and he buckled under the weight of his knowledge. He speaks fondly of Rose, and it seems she’d been trying to get him to make something right. When Linda discovers the newspaper clippings and immediately jumps to the conclusion that he was some sort of creepy stalker murdery guy (my extensive vocabulary has gone on holiday) I feel the show puts us at odds with her. We’re placed on Sonya’s side of the fence, wanting to coax information out of him by being kind- as opposed to bullying. It’s sad, because Sonya forms a bit of a bond with him and this is before he gives us anything useful to go on.

When David described the time in 24hour clock I thought he’d been military, which would have only made sense on an American show- however I wasn’t too far off the mark. A cop. Homeless guy, aka David, was an ex-cop who’d been undercover and was betrayed not just by another police officer, but by the officer he’d been reporting to. The thing is, this officer didn’t just betray him, he murdered an innocent and made David help him frame another man. David had been living with the guilt for years, and it had festered within him. He was also ill, by the looks of things, really ill. There’s a sense of mitigation for him in his confession to a room full of cops, and Flynn’s portrayal of David’s sense of fulfillment was moving.

Suits and cops, they’re all in it together, David says. Which I suppose is a melding of both his present and his past. Rose was talking to someone wearing a suit, he’d helped a dirty cop cover up a murder. One thing I had minor qualms with, as an ex-cop wouldn’t David have known that Simon wasn’t a police officer? Or was he too drunk and out of it to really care? Simon had been keeping David in a rest home, and it appears that he’d been doing some of his own investigating. Whether to find out more about Rose’s death, or to cover up his tracks is unclear just yet- but we’ll find out soon enough. As Ganesh (and by extension the Blue Rose gang) tries to get into Rose’s phone which David had picked up and handed over to Sonya.

There were funny bits this episode too, they’re just overshadowed by the heavier material of the episode.

Although I do appreciate the episode ending on the IT Crowd joke. It’s funny because earlier in the episode Krystle with a K had been complaining about how all IT did was suggest the computer be turned off and on again.

Special Mentions:

- Ganesh is smoother than we give him credit for. Also, can there be more Ganesh and Fasi? BrOTP, found.

- I’m torn between shaking my head at Ben in disapproval for showing up at Jane’s work like that and shaking my head in commiseration at the fact that Jane is keeping secrets from him. Also, that final scene with Ben and Jane was actually really cute.

- Charlie, still trying to get his ins with Jane. Did Charlie try his luck with Rose too? According to the preview for next week Charlie may have been one of the last people to have seen Rose alive.

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The Blue Rose: 1×03 - Sheila Take a Bow

The Blue Rose: Monday 8:30pm TV3
This week on The Blue Rose we had a hit and run, an attack, an angry wife, homeless man manhunt and more dodge dodgeroo behaviour.

We find our leading ladies doing something about last week’s final revelation that the homeless man saw something he shouldn’t have. Yes, they’re trolling the streets of Auckland looking for the homeless man who’s gone into hiding, or is dead. There are a few places in Auckland unnamed homeless witness could be hiding but Auckland after dark isn’t always the safest place to be. Of course, it would seem that it isn’t safe to be anywhere if this episode is anything to go by.

Jane’s struggling with the question of whether she should take the full-time position at Mosely & Loveridge, her boyfriend points out that she went there because of her parents predicament and now that they’re sorted she can hightail it out of there. I can understand this line of thinking- what are you still doing there, you’ve helped your mum and dad. Scat! However she’s invested in more than just what she set out to do. She’s part of the Blue Rose Gang now, and whether she likes it or not she wants to know who killed Rose just as much as we do. Once again she tells Linda she’s pulling out and doesn’t want to take the position at M&L. I suppose I wouldn’t want the job either if it meant going up against Krystle with a K. Even Jane’s boss is afraid of her.

“Don’t be a dick Charlie!”

I’m pretty sure Krystle has a few screws loose. I bet it was Colonel Krystle, on the bridge with a wine bottle. Joking, Krystle’s a bit mental but killing someone for their job? Well, people have killed for less. Seriously, sending in the bitchy wife to a lunch Jane has with Simon Frost was some underhanded shit.

However, this gets Jane thinking, what if Rose’s killing wasn’t business related but personal? The Simon and Rose affair makes for a compelling, if predictable, avenue.

One person I have no problem imagining accidentally kill someone in a fit of rage is Linda. Linda’s got some issues regarding restraint. I mean so far she’s reacted with physical violence, she has no filter and little qualms about using less than legal methods to obtain information. Seriously, how far does her social netball contacts go? However she’s also loyal to the core and is actually super nice when she sounds like she’s being mean. She allows one of her staff to take the van home and someone crashes into it whilst it’s parked. Who the heck crashes into a parked car? At first I thought it was connected to the Rose scenario, but after a great drawing from a somewhat unreliable witness, Sammy’s neighbour and Linda’s sleuthing we figure out it’s un-Rose-related.

Sonya’s looking for a job, having been unemployed since being fired by Moselys and after a successful first interview she’s thrown when the interviewer isn’t as interested as she was before. This is because Barry the HR guy gave her a crap reference. Finding this out makes Sonya go to Moselys and confront Barry straight up. Barry’s a bit of a douche. Isn’t it rather suspect that after Sonya goes to Moselys to yell at Barry (let’s ALL yell at Barrys) she’s attacked in her own home? Also, before Barry exits stage left during Jane’s interview he says ‘All I’ve ever done was all that was asked, as you bloody well know.’ Hmm, thou seest the act afoot? I don’t know why I said that. Roll the tweets!

Simon watching that footage at the end! Discuss!

Special Mentions:

- Sonya’s gone off the rails. Sorry, Elizabeth Clyde. Sonya’s won another 50 cool points. I mean, what a badass. $985,000!! “I got them instead.” Yes you did.

- Jane and Simon discuss Shakespearean Tragedy at lunch. Where everyone dies at the end. Bad taste? I wonder why, Simon.

- Hot waiter. *Ahem* Nice casting, guys.

- Ganesh helps how he can. But seriously his bad acting when helping Linda catch out the dodgy car dealer. I lost it when he turned up with the Audi and he’d picked up his crew.

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The Blue Rose: 1×02 - What Difference Does It Make?

The Blue Rose: Monday 8:30pm TV3

Well, the plot thickens! Usually what happens after the initial episode, and boy did it thicken. Stop. Keep on track. The mystery continues with revelations that lead to more questions, more wonderful shots of Auckland and characters developing past the initial first impressions stage makes for a much more cohesive, suspense filled hour than last week.

So we join Jane and Linda tailing the mysterious lady, failing and deciding to do a little B&E. At least Jane’s apprehensive about it. But it yields helpful info! We find out ‘Mystery Lady’s’ name. Sonya Whitwell, who has the confidentiality agreements conveniently lying around in her kitchen, not only that but it turns out she and Rose were really good friends, best friends even.

Best friends?

This doesn’t sit well with Linda who’s never heard of Sonya before. We know Linda was Rose’s best friend, and she’s coping with the death of her friend in her own way however we don’t see a crack in Linda’s tough guy persona (do we know that it’s just a persona by now?) until when she talks about Rose, or Rose’s daughter, or when she’s with Rose’s mum. I like that she’s got a few connections, her moral compass is a tad skewed but her heart’s in the right place. However, tampering with a birth certificate? Yikes. Also, that must be some important netball game for someone to be willing to place their career and possible jail time on the line. And no, Jess, that island lady’s not my aunt. Racist.

Although thanks, by the way, for keeping me informed when I hadn’t gotten home yet. Seriously, I interrupt this review to give you Jess’s text updates of the show because I wasn’t home to catch the beginning.

Jess's UpdatesJess's Updates

Granted she started calling Jane Loretta, they were all still very helpful.

So last week people were questioning why Jane, who seems relatively sensible, would just go ahead and help the turbulent Linda. This week the show delves a little more into Jane’s reasons. She rants at Linda about how Peterson was using his law-firm to bribe people and making a court case go away thus perverting the course of justice. She starts talking about how people have suffered and lost money by investing in Lancaster and that the cops or the serious fraud office should be notified. A strong set of principles? Sure it’s nice on paper but real people are driven by more than a puffed up sense of morality. Finally Jane’s involvement makes a bit more sense when she says her parents lost everything in the Lancaster investments and with what she knows, she has the evidence to somehow find a way to mitigate their loss. Jane even reveals she asked to be sent to Mosely & Loveridge so she could look for her own answers. Now that she has them she feels theright thing to do is to go to the police with the information.

Jane and Linda disagree about going to the police. Linda doesn’t want Rose’s name to be besmirched by being implicated in the dodgy dealings she was privy to at Mosely & Loveridge. Jane’s all set to blow the whistle but in the end she comes around, because otherwise this would be a completely different show. Also, what’s better than super sluething by the underdogs? We’re rooting for them as they try to hold their own against the big bad corporations. It would appear that this show is about the corporate underdogs, people hard done by by those in power. In fact it’s Peterson’s complete asshole behaviour that convinces Jane to go all in with Linda in finding out the identity of Rose’s killer. Because we know there was foul play, even if the cops don’t. So yay for Jane being in the game and ready to help commit fraud in the name of good! I’m glad it worked out and they got to stick it to Rose’s ex, however I also feel this isn’t over in the slightest.

Side note: I like that NZ is getting more interactive with their shows, good to see a fake website that you can actually visit. https://www.mandllaw.co.nz/ It’s a nice way to familiarise yourself with characters. I could be the only one who finds it amusing.

But seriously.

Headshots!

Krystle with a K crackin’ start to the episode! ‘It really is time to take those down, it’s kind of freaky having a dead person on the wall.’ And I’m not the only one who thinks so. We need that person we love to hate, but love because in real life we’d probably hate. Sense? This is Jawkward, sense is checked at the door thank you very much.

Meeting Sonya played by Jennifer Ludlam, for real this time, was good. Booking hotel rooms as dummy rooms for clandestine meetings. Even better, the IT guy, Ganesh. First he runs from Linda like a little mouse and then comes out with a baseball bat claiming to be the muscle. Aww, adorbs.
Finally we get the complete story from Sonya, once she’s reprimanded Linda’s use of foul language (boom, scolded!) about the Lancaster debacle. Basically Peterson was a dodgy fuuudge, and when Sonya spoke up about it she was sacked. However she and Rose were able to take some of the money and, using dummy company Davy Hume Investments, managed to give some of it back to just some of the bankrupted investors. It was Rose’s idea, Rose is turning out to be a modern day Robin Hood by the looks of things. Stealing from the rich and giving to the needy, or wronged. However the question remains, who offed Rose? Was she hushed? She was definitely hushed, but by who? This homeless guy the popo are looking for as a suspect, he’s more likely a witness isn’t he? And he’s seen who killed Rose. I bet he also gets offed. It’d be much too easy for us to just talk to the homeless guy and get answers. An opportunity missed at the end when, after a moving littering send off to Rose ‘Kiora to all of that,’ Jane and Linda have the chance to get some answers from the homeless man who I guess really loves that part of harbour. However when he intimates that he saw something Linda, unforch, makes the mistake of mentioning cops (rookie mistake guys haha) and the homeless man freaks and runs. What or who did he see? WHO KILLED ROSE? Well, I guess we’ll have to keep watching to find out. Sound off in the comments with any theories.

Special Mentions:

- ‘HOLY SHIT SONYA YOU SAID YOU WOULDN’T MENTION ME!’

- Was anyone else’s heart pounding when Jane was slyly getting Simon to sign the revised will? Yes.

- So now they’re legit in the Blue Rose gang huh? Inked.

- More twitter thoughts!

- Peterson the Prick and Rose’s Ex can both go right to hell.

- My sister shouted LITTERING when Linda threw the roses into the water. I’ve since shown her this tweet.

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The Blue Rose Pilot 1×01 - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

Antonia Prebble and Siobhan Marshall, who played the West sisters Loretta and Pascalle respectively in the much loved Outrageous Fortune, are back as Jane and Linda. Jane, played by Prebble, is a modest new office temp at an inner city law firm. She’s unknowingly replacing a dead woman, Rose, who we discover is the woman found floating in the harbour at the beginning of the episode. Rose’s best friend Linda, played by Marshall, is a no-nonsense, straight talking woman who is pretty sure there’s something rotten in the state of Denmark. Wait, wrong show.
About The Blue Rose

What do we think? The pilot has definitely got us interested. Shall we ask twitter?

So far so good, because we really need this. It’s a nice new ‘whodunnit’ drama for us Monday-sufferers to get into. It’s always awesome seeing location shots we recognise from everyday life, especially if it’s shot really well. The show makes Auckland look pretty swanky. TV magic or is Auckland lookin’ good? You make the call.

Who can we trust? I mean Linda and Jane, who can Linda and Jane trust? Everyone’s acting just a little bit suspect from Simon, Rose’s (and now Jane’s) boss to the IT guy, Ganesh. The pilot really sets the stage for what could be an interesting series! Who is the old lady with the dark shades that shows up to Rose’s funeral and we see again at the end of the episode? Did Rose stumble upon something she really shouldn’t have or, despite Linda’s refusal to believe so, was Rose aware? Dodgy dealings and shady characters! Why’s the IT guy acting crazy? Is that hot junior lawyer, Charlie, who sits across from Jane a bit too friendly? Is it too early to start making theories about who killed Rose? Most definitely not! I’m going to go ahead and theorise that the most ‘suspicious’ seeming character most probably won’t be the killer. The IT guy? No, and someone agrees with me!

Marshall and Prebble are brilliant in their new roles. We can all agree that they slip into these roles without a hitch. Jane’s humble but smart- although conscientious. A far cry from the devious, somewhat immoral Loretta West. Linda’s a tough ‘no nonsense’ but loyal friend who’s driven to seek out the truth. If not for her own peace of mind, then for her best friend’s daughter. Where Pascalle West was a bit of a whiny princess, Linda is a biting, assertive character who I already back 100%. It’s unfair, although inevitable, to conjure up thoughts of Outrageous Fortune. However before long you’ll be so engrossed in the mystery and the lives of the characters on the Blue Rose to keep searching for similarities.

SNEAK PEEK: Jane 's first day

Krystle ‘with a K’ is a bitch, but she’s an entertaining bitch. Also, a Shorty star, so take a shot. Them’s the rules, of course. See a Shortland Street or Outrageous Fortune actor and you take a shot of something strong. But not strong enough that you can’t follow the storyline! Too much alcohol and a complex storyline oft do not mix.

Noteworthy:

- Linda jabbing Rose’s ex-husband (well technically separated but he was on P, the upside down b! Seriously if he gets the house and their daughter Linda will probably do something drastic. She seems the type.) in the face at Rose’s funeral. He really does seem like a jerk-face the entire episode. So kudos for making a hateable character, he joins Peterson ‘don’t need a dead woman giving me grief’ and possibly Jane’s mooching boyfriend in the list of characters I’ll gladly hate on a weekly basis.

- Epic shots of Auckland city!

- The IT guy’s way of threatening is actually pretty freaky. He could make it look like Jane was looking at anything, even… nekkid animals!

- Not from the show itself, though related. Watching TV with New Zealand tweeters always yields the most…interesting insights and commentaries.

Well that’s all we have for now. Let us know what you think if you caught the episode, if you haven’t seen it go watch the full episode HERE. If there’s one thing, however, to take away from the pilot is that the IT people see everything. EVERYTHING.

Let’s all tune in next week at 8:30pm on TV3 to catch the next episode as the mystery continues to unfold!