Tonight’s White Collar on USA at 10p really hits one out of the park, Yankee Stadium’s park that is.
Mozzie hears that there is going to be a huge con going down Yankee Stadium and he wants Neal involved in it with him. Neal convinces him to bring the suits in on it and now they will all be trying to stop one of the biggest scores in baseball history. Will they be able to stop Babe Ruth’s first home run ball from being stolen or will they save they day?
You have to batter up to see this home run of an episode that was directed by Tim DeKay. In the last few months DeKay has proven himself to me as an actor playing a bad guy on Chuck and a lover on Hot in Cleveland and tonight he proved to me what a great job he does behind the camera in his directorial debut on the USA drama. I grew up in The Bronx and spent many a days at Yankee Stadium, but the way he captured the new one for tonight’s episode it made me want to go there the second I get back home. He made the surrounding area look so much better than it does. And if that is what he did with the outside, imagine what he did on the inside where we get a behind-the-scenes glance of a place that Ruth built…next door.
Now forgetting the landscape of tonight’s episode, DeKay also did a great job with the pace of the episode. He made the show move at the speed it should. It is as exciting as a tied game in the bottom of the 9th with three men on base, two outs and the batter has 2 strikes and 3 foul balls against him. I actually witnessed a moment like that live at Shea Stadium and that was exhilarating as tonight’s episode is. So my hat is off to DeKay in a total Neal way for a job well done by DeKay.
There is a reason why this was the first scripted show to get on base at the new Yankee Stadium.
