Old Wounds By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Moonlight Fridays on CBS, 9pm ET/PT “12:04 AM” Written by Jill Blotevogel Directed by Dennis Smith The eighth episode of Moonlight departs slightly from the overheated romance between Mick St. John and Beth Turner, to allow them to focus on someone else’s troubles. In an interesting mirror effect, Mick deals with a newly turned vampire and Beth comforts a woman whose memories of a past trauma haunt her. A story with real possibilities as a murder investigation, however, is relentlessly undercut by a series of mounting implausibilities. Beth witnesses the execution…
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Moonlight: “Fleur de Lis”
The Vampire Always Rings Twice By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Moonlight Fridays on CBS, 9pm ET/PT “Fleur de Lis” Written by Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman Directed by James Whitmore, Jr. When CBS started marketing Moonlight as a vampire version of film noir, they weren’t kidding around. Two weeks ago, they slapped an homage to the classic film Body Heat into a flashback with Mick and Coraline. This week’s episode includes an almost shot-for-shot recreation of the most iconic scenes of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 classic The Conversation. From the circling video surveillance to the dancing Hare Krishnas to the half-heard…