Combat Hospital ep. 1, "Welcome to Kandahar" - Recap

"Listen, kids, when someone as genetically perfect as me or as intimidatingly tiny as her tell you to mop the floor, you stop flashing your medical degrees in my face and MOP THE FUCKING FLOOR, ya hear?"

We open with urine on our heroine's hands. That's not a euphemism, it's simply a logical deduction - she is holding a pregnancy test; thus, there is urine on her hands. It's by far the most notable thing about this scene. Other tidbits include: according to the ambient noise she is clearly flying on a plane, she is wearing a flack jacket (that's what they're called, right?), and the whole shebang is about to touch down in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.

True Blood Sneak Peek - RECAP

I'm doing this, y'all, don't even try to stop me.

You can call her MAAAB.

Click. Fzzzz. Choir of angels. And my whole body relaxes into the pure bliss and exhilaration of anticipation. Yes, it's only the HBO title card, and yes, I have in fact heard that sweet sweet symphony since that sad sad day in September; but hearing it once again at the vanguard of a brand new True Blood episode - well, it's like the Star Wars theme. Dime a dozen, right, crappy sitcoms shell out for it or the Imperial March left right and center as a fix-all and it's everywhere and you hear it all the time... but if you were to time travel back to nineteen-seventy-whatever and catch one of the first screenings of The Empire Strikes Back with all the crazy newly-minted Star Wars nerds in a time when nobody had been entirely sure there would be a second, and in a time when it looked like Harrison Ford had up and finished with the franchise, and the lights dimmed and that silent unassuming Arial-typefaced open-ended once-upon-a-time quietly faded in and faded out, are you going to tell me that you wouldn't have a mild heart attack upon hearing that first trumpet blast? Same basic principle.