I'm back! My husband and I have been off on two trips this past week -
a few days of camping in Virginia (very relaxing) and a long weekend in
Oklahoma for a family funeral, culminating in an 18-hour trip home
through 4 airports, on 3 flights, finally getting home at 2 am last
night! And we leave again in 3 days for Easter with my family. Just
trying to catch up and catch our breath in between!
So, I haven't been on the blog for a while and wanted to tell you about a new TV show we are loving, The Enemy Within - we even watched it on my laptop in our hotel room this weekend.
Jennifer Carpenter, of Dexter
fame, stars as Erica Shepherd, a woman who is viewed as public enemy #1
and a traitor after she gave the names of fellow CIA operatives to a
notorious terrorist who then killed them. Now, that terrorist, Tal, has
set off multiple bombs, killing numerous people, including FBI agents.
FBI agent Will Keaton, played by Morris Chestnut (who we enjoyed on Goliath and also starred on Rosewood),
decides the only way to finally catch Tal is to bring Erica out of
prison to help. One of the agents that Erica helped Tal to kill was
Will's girlfriend, so he doesn't trust Erica, but he needs her. His
colleagues, including Daniel, played by Raza Jaffrey, and Kate, played
by Kelli Garner, are against this plan and consider Erica to be a
terrorist herself, but Will soon finds out from Erica that there is far
more to her story than was reported in the news. She shares her secret
with Will but insists he keep it quiet for personal reasons. Besides
wanting to catch Tal, who used to be her main target in the CIA and whom
she knows better than anyone, she is desperate to see her teen
daughter, Hannah, played by Sophia Gennusa, again. Erica and Will begin
working together to find Tal, despite the protestations of the rest of
the FBI team, while Erica is now imprisoned in a cell at the FBI. Each
episode provides another piece to the puzzle of this violent terrorist.
We loved Carpenter as Dexter's sister, Debra, on Dexter
and are thrilled to see her back on the screen in such an excellent
thriller series. She is just as good here as Erica, as is Morris
Chestnut as Will, as the two slowly begin to trust each other. Each
episode is suspenseful and action-packed but also thoughtful, slowly
digging deeper into Erica and Will's backgrounds as the two start to
understand each other better. Erica is a brilliant CIA operative and
analyst, and she slowly begins to prove her worth to the resentful FBI
team, as they catch various Tal operatives, though the man himself
remains tantalizingly out of reach. We've watched six episodes so far
and are totally hooked. In fact, this is my favorite of the new batch of
early-spring shows, and I can't wait to see each new episode. Both
Erica and Will are complex and interesting characters, and I am eager to
see what happens next in their joint mission to catch this notorious
terrorist.
The Enemy Within is currently airing
at 9 pm on Mondays on NBC (ooh, that means there should be a new episode
On Demand today!). We are watching it On Demand, and also watched an
episode on the NBC website
while we were traveling. There are eight episodes currently available
of the 13-episode season. It also seems to be available on Hulu or you
can stream it on Amazon for $1.99 an episode or $19.99 for the first season.
I have had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) since March 2002. Both of my sons also got ME/CFS at ages 6 and 10. Our younger son fully recovered after 10 years of mild illness. Our older son still has ME/CFS and also has Lyme disease plus two other tick infections. This blog is about how our family lives with chronic illness, with a focus on improving our conditions and enjoying our lives in spite of these challenges.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
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