well, it made me laugh
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shallownessRevenge 3.14 Payback
I started laughing when it became clear Patrick had burned down the gallery to bring his birth father into his orbit. This would be after Daniel declared his allegiance to Charlotte (for the fifteenth time) after admitting he’d forgotten her birthday was the next day, which was typically ridiculous and probably prepped the laughter.
The black-outs weren’t really working for me, they seem like borrowing a technique from a totally different story. I did wonder if they were going to raise Emily’s mother’s mental ill health, so they are going there (although I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was drugging her really). I can understand the appeal of Emily having to deal with an out-of-control magical sitar version of herself, but it would have been more effective in a show that paces things better.
I apologise to Aiden for believing he was stupid enough to leave the sword around, especially because he and Emily seem past tense.
The first Mrs Greyson seemed great, I wished for her own sake she’d fly back home, but Victoria has, again, been her own worst enemy. And then came the revelation I was a quarter-suspecting from the fact that Stevie clearly had a history with Carl (so Declan’s mother was Jack’s stepmother.) I had known Jack’s mother could come into play, but, again, I laughed at the big reveal.
Still, that ties him in with Patrick and Emily with complicated relationships with their mothers – Patrick obviously had a complicated relationship with his birth father too. Oops. He went from homicidal tendencies to setting them aside to accidental killing his dad to maybe not being a psychopath, but certainly damaged (like Victoria) and at least recognising it. As indeed did Daniel in the moment of comedy gold when he was trying to get Charlotte to help him spy on Conrad while not revealing that he had shot Emily. Fortunately for him, Charlotte is a bit thick.
The only emotional connection this episode got from me was occasional sighs of relief that Emily had Nolan. The dangling of the threat that Emily had unintentionally slept with Conrad and then the immediate clarification that no they hadn’t typified how ridiculous most of the episode was.
I started laughing when it became clear Patrick had burned down the gallery to bring his birth father into his orbit. This would be after Daniel declared his allegiance to Charlotte (for the fifteenth time) after admitting he’d forgotten her birthday was the next day, which was typically ridiculous and probably prepped the laughter.
The black-outs weren’t really working for me, they seem like borrowing a technique from a totally different story. I did wonder if they were going to raise Emily’s mother’s mental ill health, so they are going there (although I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was drugging her really). I can understand the appeal of Emily having to deal with an out-of-control magical sitar version of herself, but it would have been more effective in a show that paces things better.
I apologise to Aiden for believing he was stupid enough to leave the sword around, especially because he and Emily seem past tense.
The first Mrs Greyson seemed great, I wished for her own sake she’d fly back home, but Victoria has, again, been her own worst enemy. And then came the revelation I was a quarter-suspecting from the fact that Stevie clearly had a history with Carl (so Declan’s mother was Jack’s stepmother.) I had known Jack’s mother could come into play, but, again, I laughed at the big reveal.
Still, that ties him in with Patrick and Emily with complicated relationships with their mothers – Patrick obviously had a complicated relationship with his birth father too. Oops. He went from homicidal tendencies to setting them aside to accidental killing his dad to maybe not being a psychopath, but certainly damaged (like Victoria) and at least recognising it. As indeed did Daniel in the moment of comedy gold when he was trying to get Charlotte to help him spy on Conrad while not revealing that he had shot Emily. Fortunately for him, Charlotte is a bit thick.
The only emotional connection this episode got from me was occasional sighs of relief that Emily had Nolan. The dangling of the threat that Emily had unintentionally slept with Conrad and then the immediate clarification that no they hadn’t typified how ridiculous most of the episode was.
