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Nothing like being alone in the fortress whilst the Goddess<\/b> is away (auditioning chargers<\/a>) to catch up on half-watched shows on the box, among them the short-lived Karen Sisco<\/a>, Identity<\/a> and this show<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Plain Sight<\/i> is a genial procedural with\u00a0Mary McCormack<\/strong>‘s\u00a0US Marshal Mary Shannon each week dealing with a witness protection client and their backstory, with a few beats on the side about the marshal’s personal life. You know what a sucker I am for procedurals. You also know what a sucker I am for the personal life of a favoured weekly law-enforcement\/operating-room\/intergalactic protagonist when done well<\/i>.<\/p>\n So when, in the pilot, Shannon’s mother and sister move in with her, signs above them flashing ‘trouble’, I put them down to comic relief. Only, Shannon’s partner Marshall Mann (Fred Weller<\/strong>)\u00a0is the droll and actual comic relief which left the mother and sister to be unwitting instigators of doom<\/a>.<\/p>\n I put up with twelve episodes of that goddamned Shannon family\u00a0arc, the cases-of-the-week a flimsy life preserver of sanity and interest, until a realisation in the season finale: \u00a0those Shannon harpies were there to stay, to continue to be instigators of drama for the sake of drama, no matter that logic and safety and mental well-being dictated a couple of desert graves. \u00a0Ah well.<\/p>\n I tried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nothing like being alone in the fortress whilst the Goddess is away (auditioning chargers) to catch up on half-watched shows on the box, among them the short-lived Karen Sisco, Identity and this show. In Plain Sight is a genial procedural with\u00a0Mary McCormack‘s\u00a0US Marshal Mary Shannon each week dealing with a witness protection client and their … <\/p>\n