Monk/ The Furies

Last night I watched the first four episodes of the seventh season of Monk. Enjoyable, except for the BIG plot error in the Mr. Monk and the Genius episode that totally screws up the denouement. How do these things happen? Doesn't anyone watch these things before they're aired? If anyone cares, I'll post what it is in a comment.

I also watched a sexy, smart, strong-willed Barbara Stanwyck in The Furies, a 1950 western with Walter Huston as T.C. Jeffords, profligate owner of a cattle ranch named The Furies.

Stanwyck's his daughter Vance, who runs the ranch, while he spends money in San Francisco. Wendell Corey plays the owner of a saloon/former owner of a small part of the Jeffords's ranch who hates (although he never seems angry)T.C and "romances" Vance. The father-daughter relationship is an odd one. Mom died years ago and Vance and T.C. are locked into a too-close relationship that is threatened by a society woman from SF (Judith Anderson) more so than by the Wendell Corey character's relationship with Vance. Dad's a blusterer who not only passes around bad scrip to all and sundry (what does he spend his money on in SF?)but consistently lies to his daughter, betraying her and her friends.

I really enjoyed this movie for its probably unintentional feminist slant. And just watch Stanwyck was a joy.