Necessary Facts: EUREKA

Sunday, June 29, 2025

EUREKA

The plain truth is that over the years we have preferred cozy murder mysteries from Quincy ME and Columbo to NUMB3RS, Bones, and Foyle’s War, and a little science fiction. Comparing everything to ST:NG we did not like the new Picard . We found ST:Discovery compelling in Season 1 and disappointing thereafter. After 20 minutes of Game of Thrones, we were sure that we had seen it or read it many times before. That all being as it may, we are happy to have found Eureka.

When one portal closes, another opens. Always something happening here.

It is true that being only as far as Season 2, we are pretty sure that each episode runs about two or three hours. However, this is our time together and we don’t mind the fact that this show is like a Marvel\DC comic with someone else turning the pages for us.

Sometimes science and religion collide.

Fascinating details flash by quickly.

The theme music reminded us of The Good Place, but the composers are not the same: Mark Mothersbaugh and John Enroth for Eureka versus David Schwartz for The Good Place.

Former space shuttle mechanic Henry Deacon and Sheriff Jack Carter
Even best friends have secrets from each other.

When I brought The Big Bang Theory Season 1 home from the Ann Arbor public library in 2008, Laurel could not watch it because it was too embarrassingly like her real colleagues at the university. But she got used to it and we have all 12 seasons on disc. In fact, TV shows such as that and this are like “breaking the fourth wall of the stage.” I am a little older, so I remember George Burns and Gracie Allen with Burns escaping to his study to watch Gracie on TV.

Deputy Sheriff Josefina Lupo is one of the putatively normal viewpoint characters.

And now I work at a university, albeit as a blue collar non-exempt. I still meet the 3,000 teaching professors, 15,000 support staff, and our 55,000 very, very special charges. Some of them do neurological research and others have an atomic reactor. Then, I come home and watch them up close.

We like the quirky yet predictable plots.