Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Hey everyone!
Hope you had a great summer! My summer was very productive. I feel like when I put in a lot of work and I get exhausted and tired and whatever, the outcome is so satisfying that it feels worth it. And now — here we go again!
I am very excited to be paired with Hope. I sort of made a joke during the World Cup about wanting her to be my partner. I was like, 'Hey Hope, how about you do Dancing with the Stars?' I thought she'd be a good candidate. The media picked it up ...
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The Closer
Of all the darker passions lurking in the ordinary psyche, none is more brilliantly deceptive than the love of glory. Fame-seeking destroys decent people in ways only an addict could truly comprehend. Wars, political debacles, the dispassionate way one's personal honor is laid aside in order to bask in the bonfire of a media burnout: the infamy of fame knows no limits and, once embraced, can hardly ever be fully released.
Sadly, most of us are more susceptible to the influence of celebrity than we would like to admit...
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Mary McDonnell and Kyra Sedgwick
In "Family Affair," we examine one of love's deeper, and darker, demands. Sooner or later, in any relationship, one's worst qualities become impossible to ignore. Living together, for example, is the quickest known way to obliterate the softer edges of romance. "Will love remain," we cannot help but wonder, "when all my faults are finally laid bare, and others know the worst?"
This is the question our victim would ask, if only she could talk, as her inquiring mother shows up, insisting her daughter did not overdose on drugs; to prove it, our distraught parent must come to terms with several ugly truths about a child she has not seen in years. Will the grieving mother still love her daughter when she knows all?
Chief Johnson and Captain Raydor find themselves in something of the same dilemma as they try to discover, once and for all, how Major Crimes ended up being sued over the death of Turell Baylor....
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Kyra Sedgwick
One of the more profound questions we encounter in any loving relationship is just how honest we need to be? Does the true heart share its every thought and deed? Is taking an action without informing one's life partner dishonest? In short, does love require complete disclosure?
In the middle of remodeling their pricey home in the Hollywood Hills, the owners are forced to tear down a recently constructed retaining wall because their contractor did not bother obtaining a permit. Unfortunately, further delays occur when an inspector finds a body buried beneath the wall's recently laid foundation. This is just the kind of discovery that can set a home improvement project way, way, back, since it requires Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson and the rest of her Major Crimes Division to figure out how one neighbor ended up buried in another's back yard....
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Michael Paul Chan
In my own little world, nothing has meant more to me than family: It is the foundation of my daily life. Properly attended, our immediate kin can be extended by fresh relationships, more marriages and new children; its growth nurtured by the best instincts of the human heart.
So when an organism like a family splits apart, it can provoke a nuclear reaction, a shattering force every bit as powerful as the one that held it ...
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G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison and Adam Arkin
I have seldom met anyone who didn't think earning a quick four thousand dollars — cash — for an hour or two of work, wasn't a wonderful idea. Of course, everything must be relative. I wouldn't shill for the tobacco companies, no matter what they paid. But serving a subpoena — a subject that we will visit again this summer under less pleasant circumstances — is just the ticket for Flynn and Provenza, who rope the erstwhile civilian tech, Buzz Watson, into their scheme by promising him a third of their take: two hundred dollars. For those who have a bit of trouble with division, Lts. Flynn and Provenza may have misrepresented their fee to the gullible Buzz. On the other hand, the love of money can do strange things to people.
For regular watchers, this is our seasonal Flynn and Provenza episode...
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Mary McDonnell and Kyra Sedgwick
Of all the finer, more civilized traits that combine to form the enchantment of love — perhaps none is more central than trust. In "Repeat Offender," The Closer examines exactly how much we can believe in our families, spouses, bosses, friends and even destiny itself. Reversals of fortune abound, and no one seems more taken off-guard by fate's shifting winds than Brenda's sometimes antagonist, Captain Sharon Raydor. Tracking our way through the untimely death of a young house-and-baby sitter — that person to whom we entrust our children and most personal possessions — we worry our way to the final moment, where we face the most uncomfortable question of all: "Do I trust myself?" We leave Deputy Chief Johnson pondering this disturbing concept in a powerful episode....
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The Closer
We always knew this day would come.
Sooner or later, we would reach our final season, and Brenda Leigh Johnson would solve her last case.
That is the bad news, and for those of us who have loved doing The Closer, the journey to the end has already been filled with a series of bittersweet twists and turns, each on leading, one way or another, to an unavoidable final bow.
The good news? We know the very last scene is coming, and we are writing toward it. Instead of the hasty, departure common in our trade, we will be afforded the rare opportunity to properly finish our show....
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Hi everyone!
Sorry for being MIA the past week! It has been really busy with rehearsals, especially with the semifinals.
I hope you enjoyed the show last night. I honestly think we've done all we could to make the finals and it's time to let the chips fall where they may. Kirstie did a wonderful job last night. I don't think anybody expected there to be ...
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This week we're in Middleburg, Fla. to meet the Prewitt-Brewer family that consists of Carrie Prewitt and the three girls, Ashley, Taylor and Gina. Carrie Prewitt has been at the same high school as a teacher and a coach for the last 25 years. She is a mentor, she is an amazing coach and she's like a second mom to everyone she coaches there. Coach Prewitt first met Ashley when she coached her at the high school in volleyball and through that experience, she met her two younger sisters, Taylor and Gina.
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