Well, what to say about this episode? It was... sort of interesting. At times. As you faithful readers know, this ripped-from-the-headlines stuff is a pet peeve of mine, and definitely not why I watch Criminal Intent. Id prefer the writers get off their butts and actually come up with some original crimes for the detectives to solve. Leave the news-inspired stories to the L&O mother ship and all of those lame CSI spin-offs.That said, you couldnt ask for crazier source material than the Lisa Nowak astronaut-murder plot, so this episode was guaranteed to be at least mildly entertaining. And between all of the bed-hopping, adult-diaper-wearing, deep-sea-diving, steroid-cream-rubbing antics, it certainly wasnt boring. But seriously, as one of the detectives pointed out, dont astronauts go through some kind of rigorous psychological testing before they can enter the NASA program? Do the people piloting our taxpayer-sponsored, multi-million-dollar s...
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