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Chase Recap 12/6/10: Paging Jerry Springer

This week's episode of Chase on NBC came jam-packed with 100% more running than usual. The best episode of the series so far, the hour was a frenetic trip through the streets of downtown Houston (in actuality, downtown Dallas) in which a guy who really just needed to take his problems to the Jerry Springer Show embarked upon a murderous rampage to take revenge on the girlfriend and best friend that done him wrong. Meanwhile young Luke got a chance to save the day, coincidentally enough in the same episode in which he expressed at the outset his doubts about whether he'd ever be accepted as a full member of U.S. Marshal Annie Frost's crack team. Oh, television — is there any personal or professional problem you can't solve in but an hour's time?
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Chase Recap 11/29/10: Girls, Girls, Girls

In tonight's 10th episode of NBC's Chase, Dallas finally got to play itself on TV. The opening scene showed our blonde heroine, crack U.S. Marshal Annie Frost, chasing a guy through the West End and the screen told us that she was, in fact, in Dallas. Never mind that the building through which she pursued the fugitive and jumped to a neighboring roof was the West End Marketplace, the same building they used for Annie's apartment in Houston a few weeks back. But what's with the show's strange oral fixation?
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Chase Recap 11/15/10: Break Out the Brilliant and Charming Serial Killer

Last week's episode of Chase spent a lot of time in the Cedars neighborhood of Dallas. Tonight the show's location scouts were squarely focused on Deep Ellum. NBC's misleading promos for this latest episode, "The Longest Night," made it seem like Annie Frost was going to turn for some Silence of the Lambs-type help from an inmate she once busted, in order to track a serial killer. But what we got instead was an episode that taught us plenty of foolproof ways to avoid becoming victims ourselves. First lesson: beware the stranger bearing pocket change and transcendentalist quotes.
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Chase Recap: Napoleon’s Outlaw Posse

NBC gave Chase a break last week, so it's been too long since we've been able to come together to discuss the ongoing adventures of U.S. Marshal Annie Frost and her team. But fear not — it appears that we'll have plenty of chances to come. The network has picked the show up for a full season. This week's episode, entitled "The Posse," featured downtown Dallas and its environs more prominently than any installment of the series so far. Read on about how the Cedars neighborhood, the West End, and the city of Seagoville had the spotlight shined on them.
By Jason Heid
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Chase Recap: Love is Blind(ing), and Deafening

Romance is in the air, friends. The producers of Chase had the good sense to let the sexual tension between our heroic U.S. Marshal Annie Frost and bounty hunter Ben build for an entire week before letting us witness her cave in to his scampish charms. And what's this— young rookie Luke seems overly concerned for Daisy's well-being throughout the episode and then they make bedroom eyes at one another after downing a couple shots? Despite the fact that I've watched every episode of Chase, I couldn't have told you either Luke or Daisy's name before tonight. This was the first installment that gave the other members of Annie's U.S. marshals team a chance to shine, after she ended up in the hospital with ringing ears and a few scratches following her decision to run directly towards an exploding bomb to catch the bad guy. Follow the jump to find out how a blind man managed to successfully detonate a string of bombs throughout Houston, and to read about the pretend coffee shop in Deep Ellum and the convenience store in South Dallas that got in his path.
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Chase Recap: Class Warfare With Damn Yankees

Attention, fugitives: If Annie Frost is on your tail, destroy your iPod immediately. This will spare the audience of Chase from having to watch yet another scene of our heroic U.S. Marshal jamming to the tunes left behind by her latest prey, for no actual purpose but to demonstrate how she’s working hard to get into the mind of the killer she seeks. This week’s bad guy, Adam Rothchild, is a ripped-from-the-headlines financial crook who defrauded pension investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. He lives the high life, with expensive clothes and cars, high-priced pomade, and a beautiful wife and mistress by his side. (He keeps the mistress living well in a high-rise called “the Clifton” — which is actually the Azure in Uptown Dallas.) But Annie knows immediately that he’s hiding a secret past — Rothchild must have grown up poor. After all: why else would he have Damn Yankees and ZZ Top in his iTunes library?  These suspicions are confirmed beyond any doubt when an old home video shows Rothchild saying “I’m drunker than a boiled owl.”
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Chase Recap: Annie Frost Needs to Drive Off a Cliff. And I Mean That in the Best Possible Sense.

Tonight’s episode of Chase nearly redeemed itself with a scene of hell-bent U.S. Marshal Annie Frost taking a ridiculously wonderful leap from a helicopter onto a speeding semi, then shimmying down the front to reach through the window of the cab to keep a crazy fugitive from driving herself and the little girl that she’d kidnapped right off a bridge. It was a good reminder that it’s not necessarily a mistake for this show to embrace the over-the-top, since the sequence was far better executed (and more fun to watch) than anything else this series has offered so far. It’s too bad the producers committed some laughably big flubs that prevented the oh-so-earnest plotting of this installment from being taken seriously. Read on to hear about this week's guest roles by a motel in Mesquite, and a shopping center in Balch Springs.
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Chase Recap: ‘Lions and Lambs’ Sounds Like It Could Be a Song by Neil Diamond

The encyclopedic musical knowledge of U.S. Marshal Annie Frost once again nailed the bad guy on last night’s episode of Chase. If the poor fool hadn’t recklessly whistled “Sweet Caroline” just after he shot the world’s most crooked auto mechanics, our troubled hero might never have been able to connect him to his Boston roots. You see, Annie knows that “only two kinds of people in this world” like that particular Neil Diamond song — drunks and diehard Red Sox fans (the categories are far from mutually exclusive.) “They play it every eighth inning at Fenway Park,” she explains
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Chase Recap: Does What Happens in Vegas Stay in Vegas If It’s Filmed in North Texas?

At least U.S. Marshal Annie Frost is consistent in employing her absurd crime-fighting techniques. In the series pilot, she shared her philosophy that “music is the quickest way into a person’s soul.” The second episode of Chase finds her kicking back with some Tejano, while chewing bubble gum, and doing a little light reading about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo — all to get into the mind of a killer. This week’s bad guy is called — repeatedly, with a straight face — “El Lobo,” or just plain “Lobo” to the crack team of marshals who continue to make their headquarters in Fair Park’s Hall of State (even though they’re supposed to be working in Houston). For a couple other Dallas locations making appearances this week, and more lessons from the Frost school of criminal justice, take the jump.
By Jason Heid
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