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shallownessThe Honourable Woman - Episode 3
I got a little frustrated at bits of this one, because I’d seen a lot of it coming, and then other bits were so good, like how Maggie Gyllenhaal is getting to plumb all sorts of depths here (I especially liked her playing opposite Tobias Menzies* and all that business about Nessa being full of rage reminded me of how underused she was in The Dark Knight) although I think that the excuses for the amount of time the character’s in underwear is skating close to tenuous.
So, what I think happened is that Nessa told her captor-rapist/the Man With the Burned Face that Hot Bodyguard (aka Nathaniel) might figure out the secret i.e. choosing the child over him. Which was awful, because I do think she cared.
But the frustration really comes from the way it played out. After giving us so much hope (if he can survive two such gunshots) and juicy scenes was disappointing, for someone who was ‘sensitive to threat’ it’s like he lost that power as soon as he said that out loud. It’s all very well wearing gloves in what’s labelled a crime scene, but leaving your dabs on the suspiciously open door of Mrs Gatz’s house? Buying her story? What? He could have put his foot down and said she’d call her mother or send her a postcard and give his assassin (this time, the bullet was fatal) a tougher time. He should have really, but the plot made him stupid. Never mind how artistically it was shot with wind turbines and animals and landscape...
What little we saw of Janet McTeer was amusing, cue hangdog look from Hugh. (I am massively enjoying him and all the build up means that his inevitable encounter with Nessa will should be epic.)
Rachel is a heinous cow at times, but she also some right on her side at times.
But it felt like the main thing in this episode was whether Ephra knew Nessa and whatsherface’s secret. (And the answer was no, but he’s cottoning on.) By secret, I mean who the mother is and how Kasim was conceived. As Nessa burned the father’s face, I’m assuming it was rape.
But hey, I don’t think I’d worked out whatsherface was Palestinian.
And Dalloway and Bloom? REALLY? This isn’t the kind of show where references of that kind work, I feel.
*Ha, he was in Casion Royale.
I got a little frustrated at bits of this one, because I’d seen a lot of it coming, and then other bits were so good, like how Maggie Gyllenhaal is getting to plumb all sorts of depths here (I especially liked her playing opposite Tobias Menzies* and all that business about Nessa being full of rage reminded me of how underused she was in The Dark Knight) although I think that the excuses for the amount of time the character’s in underwear is skating close to tenuous.
So, what I think happened is that Nessa told her captor-rapist/the Man With the Burned Face that Hot Bodyguard (aka Nathaniel) might figure out the secret i.e. choosing the child over him. Which was awful, because I do think she cared.
But the frustration really comes from the way it played out. After giving us so much hope (if he can survive two such gunshots) and juicy scenes was disappointing, for someone who was ‘sensitive to threat’ it’s like he lost that power as soon as he said that out loud. It’s all very well wearing gloves in what’s labelled a crime scene, but leaving your dabs on the suspiciously open door of Mrs Gatz’s house? Buying her story? What? He could have put his foot down and said she’d call her mother or send her a postcard and give his assassin (this time, the bullet was fatal) a tougher time. He should have really, but the plot made him stupid. Never mind how artistically it was shot with wind turbines and animals and landscape...
What little we saw of Janet McTeer was amusing, cue hangdog look from Hugh. (I am massively enjoying him and all the build up means that his inevitable encounter with Nessa will should be epic.)
Rachel is a heinous cow at times, but she also some right on her side at times.
But it felt like the main thing in this episode was whether Ephra knew Nessa and whatsherface’s secret. (And the answer was no, but he’s cottoning on.) By secret, I mean who the mother is and how Kasim was conceived. As Nessa burned the father’s face, I’m assuming it was rape.
But hey, I don’t think I’d worked out whatsherface was Palestinian.
And Dalloway and Bloom? REALLY? This isn’t the kind of show where references of that kind work, I feel.
*Ha, he was in Casion Royale.
