Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 251 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Two Can Play at That Game
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2009.01.11
Meanwhile, at the Capitol, a power-suited brunette climbs out of a silver government SUV and walks toward the building, clearly meaning business. She looks kind of like a younger, more freckled version of Connie Nielsen. Inside the building, a hearing is beginning. Mind you, it's not inside the actual Senate Chamber like the one we see on C-SPAN, but in another large room, a rather airy venue lined with large windows that let in lots of golden sunlight despite the fact that it's another blue-grey day in D.C. The hearing is being presided over by a U.S. Senator named Blaine Mayer, played by Kurtwood Smith. Now, normally, the man who played Red Forman can be pretty intimidating, but he's failed to take one important fact into account: he was also in Robocop, and we already know from Peter Weller and Paul McCrane that things don't tend to end well for Robocop alumni on this show. Plus his name is Blaine Mayer, which I'm sure is supposed to telegraph "liberal wussy" but only makes me think of John Cusack's similarly named character in Better Off Dead. But so anyway.