Necessary Roughness – TK versus TO

It’s always fun to see Terrell Owens on Necessary Roughness, especially since the TK character seems to be based on him in some ways. This week, Owens’ character, Minefield, returns as he engages in a war of tweets with TO. Of course, it turns out that both of them hired the same guy to write their tweets. I don’t doubt that there are actually people out there that celebrities can hire to tweet for them. Twitter is a big deal in the celebrity world right now, and I like how the show pokes fun at it without completely dismissing it as trivial. In this case, worrying about how he looks on Twitter is just another way of showing how TK is struggling to get his head back in the right place after his shooting. We were shown TK popping pills at the end for a reason, right? IF so, uh oh.

The Hawks are not helping much with TK’s head as, at new Interim Assistant GM Matt’s suggestion, they decide to draft Daemon Razor. The new promotion is great for Matt, even if it’s interim. If he can prove himself in that role, he may be kept on. But while the new Interim GM, Hank Griffin, is impressed with Matt, Coach is mad that he advocated a different drafting strategy than what he wanted. The battle between the GM’s office and the coaching staff in terms of who to draft is a classic one in sports, and I doubt we are done seeing the fallout from this decision.

In other good news for Matt, Dani finally comes out and tells her kids about him. They seem a bit nonplussed at first, but given that they are teenagers (and usually extra-annoying), that is a good reaction for them. Uh, Dani, they don’t want to hang with you guys because you’re old, not because they dislike Matt. Dani finally does get her cellphone-free family time at the end, though. However, though Ray J seems to have settled down into less of a troublemaker, Lindsay is starting to go through an angsty period as her interests start to diverge from those of her friends. This is Teenager 101, but overall, I think the kids are being handled better by the writers this season. I am still not interested, mind you, but I am less annoyed.

Oh, the Case of the Week with the magician was pretty standard fare. In this case, the tale of overriding ambition creating a distance from his daughter was not even really thematically meshing with the rest of the episode. I’ve come to expect that, but the show is better when it can create a synergy between the elements of the team and the Case of the Week.

Notes and Quotes:

• While the stories behind the Hawks’ draft were realistic enough, the fact that the GM and his staff were not actually at the draft? Completely unrealistic. (Though I know hockey better, and maybe football is different?) I get that it’s cheaper for the show to use existing sets, but sheesh.
• Poor TK seems so offended that Matt has moved on to become a “suit.” Matt knows not to take it too seriously, though.
• Between her dislike of cellphones at dinner and her confusion about Twitter, the show really wants to make Dani seem like a Luddite.
• Ray J, on finding out about Dani and Matt: “Just use protection.”
• TK, explaining the concept of a “twater” to Dani: “A tweeter and a hater have a baby. These babies ‘twate.'”
• Coach, on the idea of drafting Razor: “We already have one head case wide receiver. What, do we need a matched set?”
• Minefield, before shoving a salad in TK’s face: “I hope you like anchovies, shrimp.”
• TO, in discovering that Minefield has hired a tweeter: “This alabaster bastard wouldn’t happened to be named Josh, would he?”
• Nico, to TK’s offer to buy him a burger: “I like burgers; prefer lobster.”

Clacked by Christina Furtado
on Jul 12, 2012 @ 12:47 EST5EDT