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shallowness) wrote2014-08-09 08:05 am
shallowness) wrote2014-08-09 08:05 am
yes, apologise for the cricketing metaphors
The Honourable Woman - Episode 6
I watched it live, but couldn’t type up my thoughts the morning after. Here's what I think they were.
There was absolutely zero tension over the question of who was piggy-backing – it was the Americans, which had always been the suspicion. It seemed a little odd that Hugh’s underling, at least, didn’t observe that. What they’re playing at here (beyond needing to know everything?), eh?
And I did like Shlomo showing a bit more of his cards and being willing to help get at the bottom of it. But not directly around Nessa.
We finally got the big scene of Nessa and Hugh and it was in horrible circumstances. I totally believe in sexually risk-taking Nessa looking for release, especially after her conversation with Atika (and she gave that away to Hugh with the code word). That disgusting rapist’s poor wife.
Safe to say that the Nessa-Hugh interaction didn’t go as I was expecting, but he told her such a lot and got her to suspect Ephra and ask the right questions.
Ephra does come off as being pathetic. Rachel is interesting in that there’s this dance of sympathy and repulsion towards her (Nessa and Atika’s secret WASN’T his to tell; there's plenty of other stuff about him for her to get legitimately angry about). Anyway, the Steins were compromised long ago, and the siblings are rent asunder.
I wonder if the former Mrs Hugh’s news has a plotty relevance or is just personal. As she's twigged he's spying on her, it could just be the latter.
(I sort of want a Spooks crossover where Julia and Hugh cross paths with Harry.)
Kids + guns = stupidity. When that subplot started, I thought it was the computer programming professor all over again, as in how a subplot was going to be almost crowbared in. As you can imagine, I have no sympathy with burned face rapist’s emerging paternal feelings.
It was an odd mix of big emotional stuff and more puzzlement than tension, overall.
On a brighter note, Nessa had an excellent coat.
I watched it live, but couldn’t type up my thoughts the morning after. Here's what I think they were.
There was absolutely zero tension over the question of who was piggy-backing – it was the Americans, which had always been the suspicion. It seemed a little odd that Hugh’s underling, at least, didn’t observe that. What they’re playing at here (beyond needing to know everything?), eh?
And I did like Shlomo showing a bit more of his cards and being willing to help get at the bottom of it. But not directly around Nessa.
We finally got the big scene of Nessa and Hugh and it was in horrible circumstances. I totally believe in sexually risk-taking Nessa looking for release, especially after her conversation with Atika (and she gave that away to Hugh with the code word). That disgusting rapist’s poor wife.
Safe to say that the Nessa-Hugh interaction didn’t go as I was expecting, but he told her such a lot and got her to suspect Ephra and ask the right questions.
Ephra does come off as being pathetic. Rachel is interesting in that there’s this dance of sympathy and repulsion towards her (Nessa and Atika’s secret WASN’T his to tell; there's plenty of other stuff about him for her to get legitimately angry about). Anyway, the Steins were compromised long ago, and the siblings are rent asunder.
I wonder if the former Mrs Hugh’s news has a plotty relevance or is just personal. As she's twigged he's spying on her, it could just be the latter.
(I sort of want a Spooks crossover where Julia and Hugh cross paths with Harry.)
Kids + guns = stupidity. When that subplot started, I thought it was the computer programming professor all over again, as in how a subplot was going to be almost crowbared in. As you can imagine, I have no sympathy with burned face rapist’s emerging paternal feelings.
It was an odd mix of big emotional stuff and more puzzlement than tension, overall.
On a brighter note, Nessa had an excellent coat.