Rizzoli And Isles

A Tribute to Rizzoli and Isles
This summer TNT premiered its new show Rizzoli And Isles. It stars Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander. I dont remember how I heard about it but I remember I decided to watch it because I have always loved Angie Harmon from Agent Cody Banks. Then while watching the first episode I noticed on Twitter that my Best Friend From Nevada, Kaitlin, was watching it too. Then it became a weekly tradition of watching and discussing it every week.
Then, several months ago, I found out one of my best twitter friends is also a fan and she was reading the book series. That began my quest for the books.
The books are incredible. I am currently reading the second-to-last one. They are horribly descriptive. The only people, aside from my twitter friend, that I have found that read them are 2 of my teachers. This fact does not surprise me much as they are not quite appropriate for a 17 year old to be reading. Most of them include several descriptive autopsies, lots of blood, and other murder related icky-ness.
I had a hard time with one of the autopsy scenes because while reading my mind wandered to the thought of whether autopsies were performed on my sisters...

As I do with many of my shows, I have spent quite a lot of time determining which character I am most like. While I was raised not-rich and have quite a few friends like Rizzoli, I strongly believe I am most like Maura Isles. She is a complete Brainy-type who works with dead people because they cant hurt her. She has a fear of living people and does not participate in too many social events. She loves to dress up and knows her way around formal events.

In the books, Jane Rizzoli falls in love with agent Gabriel Dean. They get married and then have a daughter who they name Regina. Their relationship started out rather rocky. Rizzoli hated Agent Dean at first because he was a typical FBI agent who wouldnt say more than he wanted to. They had a one night stand which is how Regina came around. They managed to get around their differences and they finally got married. now they are relatively happy, with much help from Rizzoli's mom.

Maura Isles is the Boston P.D. Chief Medical Examiner. During a case she meets Father Daniel Brophy and, dispite the difficulties it creates, she falls in love with him. In the Mephisto Club, he finally admits that he is also in love with her. They get together and, due to the ongoing investigation, Maura's home becomes a crime scene and Rizzoli and others discover what has happened between Maura and Father Brophy. Maura was adopted as a child and in Body Double she discovered who her family was. She had a twin sister who was murdered while trying to find her. Her parents were murderers who would murder pregant woman and then sell the children to an adoption agency. Now Maura works to prove that she is nothing like her parents even though she never really knew them.


I do not remember many details of the show so I cant give many of the differences between the show and books. I know that in the show Maura's father was actually a gang member. She had a half brother who's murder caused her to find her father. She discovers that her father has been watching her for her whole life. Daniel Brophy does not exist (so far) in the show. Rizzoli and Agent Dean are not together from what I remember. The first season ended with Rizzoli getting shot but since there is a second season coming this summer I know she will be okay.

This show has become my favorite along with Buffy The Vampire Slayer which I will probably post about in a few weeks. My thoughs often revolve around these characters which honestly should worry me a bit but it doesnt because thinking about tv shows keeps me from thinking about my life which makes me sad. (that will make more sense in about 11 days)



Well That is the end of my Rizzoli and Isles post. There will probably be references to the show in future posts. ***Kat***