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Finally, there is something different on tv to watch. The premise here is pretty cool- a kidnapping victim turns the tables on her kidnapper many years later. The victim turned kidnapper is played by Shanola Hampton with the always reliable Mark-Paul Gosselaar as the original kidnapper.

Each week, "Gabby" (Hampton) and her team of talented but flawed people try to find someone who has been kidnapped, and they get help from "Sir" (Gosselaar). Again, the idea is strong and each episode holds my interest but with each passing week, I can't stop focusing on just how horrible of an actor Shanola Hampton is. She is so over the top with her "boss lady" persona, stomping in and out of every room, doling out orders for the team and then walking away like a Queen. Of course, whenever she or anyone else is upset during a case, they usually knock everything off whatever desk or table is in front of them. In one episode recently, no less than three characters did this, but "Gabby" does it all the time and it's getting to be like David Caruso's "Horation" in CSI: Miami taking off his sunglasses. Drink a shot every time Gabby clears a desk or throws something and you'll be pretty drunk before you kow it.

Gosselaar does a good job with his part, which seems to be increasing in season 2, thank goodness, because the less we see of Hampton, the better.

The mysteries range from easy to figure out to pretty clever, so I hope this show has enough in the tank to keep being interesting because it's nice to have something unique on tv these days.

Six.

What is six? It's the number of tissues I went through while watching this movie, and I used the first tissue 5 minutes into the movie. Even though I read the book and I knew the story, it was still tough, yet beautiful to watch. I couldn't picture Milo Ventimiglia in the role of Denny, but he did a great job. I think the movie was very well cast, and since there always needs to be a bad guy, in this case the father in law, that role was well played too.

In the book, Enzo is not a Golden Retriever, but since GRs are the best things on the planet, I was not against Enzo being a GR and I think Kevin Costner did an excellent job in giving Enzo a voice. Some of the comments were laugh out loud funny, but mostly it was heartbreaking. Did anyone else yell at their screen when the father in law calls Enzo a "lazy dog"? I let him have it, I know that.

I really loved the book, it's one of only two books (I read about 20 a year) that made me cry a lot (the other being "The Confession" by John Grisham) and I was hoping the movie would be true to the book and it mostly was. It's a great movie that I'm glad I didn't see in a theater because I would have been a mess if I had to try to hold back my sobs in a crowd.