Kids and psychopaths, oh dear.
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shallownessThe Night Manager episode 2
Tom Hiddleston may be auditioning for James Bond, but isn’t Suzanne Bier auditioning as much for the directors’ gig (in a world where they’d consider a female director)?
I thought it was a bravura opening, giving us a little more info about Jed – is Billy her brother/son/what? And Roper has a son with whom she gets on, humanising her and his father who while giving him terrible advice and bringing him up around arms-dealing enablers, obviously did care about him, and then BOOM the abduction and Pine’s eye and face through that crack of light.
Mostly, the flashbacks/forwards worked, apart from the one flashforward to the Devonian lass finding the bloodied kitchen of the fake death before Pine had even got there. I thought that was unduly confusing. After all, there’d be plenty of ‘Why Devon?’ after.
Otherwise, I liked the pace of the reveals. Angela is driven and smart (although I don’t think the pregnancy tracked with the timeline, but let’s handwave that) and ferociously determined not to let River House or anyone stop her getting Roper this time. Has she unleashed more than she knows in Pine? I mean, you don’t encourage someone who’s been through what he had (and if we got a glimpse of Jed’s relationship with her mother, we got a hint that Pine has strong feelings about his father) to find their inner psychopath, don’t be surprised if he does ‘make it real’ and goes offscript.
So, I don’t know if enough of Pine will be left standing to take the resettlement offer after all this. I like the possibility that he won’t, because I was still unmoved by him muttering Sophie’s name while not fully conscious at the Mallorcan pad. Also I am used to Hiddleston playing characters with a dark side.
Probably he will, though, right!?
But to return to Devon, Devonian lass, I fully sympathised with you upon seeing a man looking like Tom Hiddleston driving a motorbike and wearing leathers.
The American played by not American David Harewood totally had a tendre for Angela, right?
And I liked the casting of the River House men. Sherlock’s Anderson will always be ‘Anderson’ at this rate.
Meanwhile the bit of Mallorca that they found? STUNNING and deserving of all the swooshing helicopter shots. It’s very good on the luxe and glamour of this world of rich people (although it’s the men who control the purse-strings) of ill-gotten gains.
I am interested to see what next Pine will have to do to get the suspicious yet intrigued and grateful Roper and entourage on side. I am also afraid that little Denny (?) will break my heart, because he may want to read about squids to the man who he thinks saved his life now, but who knows what next.
Very tasty stuff.
Gotham 2.7 Mommy’s Little Monster
Grand opening, and Penguin’s mother’s death was quite touching, quite twisted and a little overdone. Galavan is not a proper freak, because he should have just answered Penguin’s taunt by killing him, not asking for a last word. (Not the most interesting use of Oswald’s invincibility). And he compounded his error by not sending Tabby after him. I daresay he will kill you.
Meanwhile, I might have chuckled a bit at Ed and the proto Riddler’s conversation, but I still think this split personality development was a mis-step given that Two-Face is the most obvious supervillain to show up Bruce’s duality. And then things got gross with Kristen’s hand and Lee being in some danger.
Still, those are two important dead bodies in both Oswald and Ed’s lives.
We got to see that little Silver is in on the Gallavans’ game, and with ‘Kitty’, Tabby’s role as a precursor for Catwoman is suffocatingly clear, but I’m not sure if it’s in a good way as Selina knows nothing about her.
Poor Selina, turning to Bruce to spill about Bridget who she thinks is dead and gone and finding Silver, viciously hitting her where it hurts. I loved that she fought back, and only needed one verbal to deal with Alfred, because he has enough of a conscience to feel bad for hitting her. AS HE SHOULD.
Of course, Selina was entirely too blunt for the game Silver is playing, but she is Bruce’s friend and her protective streak has gone absolutely nowhere. Expressed via stalking, which is very apt. SELINA DESERVES ALL THE HUGS. Or at least to get the right to crow about Bruce’s judgment in people later.
This episode, Harvey B was NOT interested in motive (yes, Penguin’s crazy, but not that crazy) while Jim’s gut got incredibly suddenly smart. I mean, chaining Butch to something by the wrist of the missing hand wasn’t smart, and how he voiced his sudden suspicions about Galavan wasn’t smart either.
The big encounter between Penguin and Galavan with Jim in the middle was not that involving, because, for me, Galavan is clearly the most dispensable of that lot, but I hadn’t forgotten Tabby. (Another Strike Forcer bites the dust and even Jim’s little speech is perfunctory. He probably won’t bother to feel guilty about this one.) Also, Galavan probably has to endanger Bruce a bit more before getting killed off.
First person to mention Bruce’s mother – I felt the lack in this episode, in particular - will get a slow, shocked round of applause.
The ninja Penguins were quite good, even if the stakes weren’t – at some point Victor and/or Butch is going to have to go. All those bullets Jim and Harvey let go? Sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Tom Hiddleston may be auditioning for James Bond, but isn’t Suzanne Bier auditioning as much for the directors’ gig (in a world where they’d consider a female director)?
I thought it was a bravura opening, giving us a little more info about Jed – is Billy her brother/son/what? And Roper has a son with whom she gets on, humanising her and his father who while giving him terrible advice and bringing him up around arms-dealing enablers, obviously did care about him, and then BOOM the abduction and Pine’s eye and face through that crack of light.
Mostly, the flashbacks/forwards worked, apart from the one flashforward to the Devonian lass finding the bloodied kitchen of the fake death before Pine had even got there. I thought that was unduly confusing. After all, there’d be plenty of ‘Why Devon?’ after.
Otherwise, I liked the pace of the reveals. Angela is driven and smart (although I don’t think the pregnancy tracked with the timeline, but let’s handwave that) and ferociously determined not to let River House or anyone stop her getting Roper this time. Has she unleashed more than she knows in Pine? I mean, you don’t encourage someone who’s been through what he had (and if we got a glimpse of Jed’s relationship with her mother, we got a hint that Pine has strong feelings about his father) to find their inner psychopath, don’t be surprised if he does ‘make it real’ and goes offscript.
So, I don’t know if enough of Pine will be left standing to take the resettlement offer after all this. I like the possibility that he won’t, because I was still unmoved by him muttering Sophie’s name while not fully conscious at the Mallorcan pad. Also I am used to Hiddleston playing characters with a dark side.
Probably he will, though, right!?
But to return to Devon, Devonian lass, I fully sympathised with you upon seeing a man looking like Tom Hiddleston driving a motorbike and wearing leathers.
The American played by not American David Harewood totally had a tendre for Angela, right?
And I liked the casting of the River House men. Sherlock’s Anderson will always be ‘Anderson’ at this rate.
Meanwhile the bit of Mallorca that they found? STUNNING and deserving of all the swooshing helicopter shots. It’s very good on the luxe and glamour of this world of rich people (although it’s the men who control the purse-strings) of ill-gotten gains.
I am interested to see what next Pine will have to do to get the suspicious yet intrigued and grateful Roper and entourage on side. I am also afraid that little Denny (?) will break my heart, because he may want to read about squids to the man who he thinks saved his life now, but who knows what next.
Very tasty stuff.
Gotham 2.7 Mommy’s Little Monster
Grand opening, and Penguin’s mother’s death was quite touching, quite twisted and a little overdone. Galavan is not a proper freak, because he should have just answered Penguin’s taunt by killing him, not asking for a last word. (Not the most interesting use of Oswald’s invincibility). And he compounded his error by not sending Tabby after him. I daresay he will kill you.
Meanwhile, I might have chuckled a bit at Ed and the proto Riddler’s conversation, but I still think this split personality development was a mis-step given that Two-Face is the most obvious supervillain to show up Bruce’s duality. And then things got gross with Kristen’s hand and Lee being in some danger.
Still, those are two important dead bodies in both Oswald and Ed’s lives.
We got to see that little Silver is in on the Gallavans’ game, and with ‘Kitty’, Tabby’s role as a precursor for Catwoman is suffocatingly clear, but I’m not sure if it’s in a good way as Selina knows nothing about her.
Poor Selina, turning to Bruce to spill about Bridget who she thinks is dead and gone and finding Silver, viciously hitting her where it hurts. I loved that she fought back, and only needed one verbal to deal with Alfred, because he has enough of a conscience to feel bad for hitting her. AS HE SHOULD.
Of course, Selina was entirely too blunt for the game Silver is playing, but she is Bruce’s friend and her protective streak has gone absolutely nowhere. Expressed via stalking, which is very apt. SELINA DESERVES ALL THE HUGS. Or at least to get the right to crow about Bruce’s judgment in people later.
This episode, Harvey B was NOT interested in motive (yes, Penguin’s crazy, but not that crazy) while Jim’s gut got incredibly suddenly smart. I mean, chaining Butch to something by the wrist of the missing hand wasn’t smart, and how he voiced his sudden suspicions about Galavan wasn’t smart either.
The big encounter between Penguin and Galavan with Jim in the middle was not that involving, because, for me, Galavan is clearly the most dispensable of that lot, but I hadn’t forgotten Tabby. (Another Strike Forcer bites the dust and even Jim’s little speech is perfunctory. He probably won’t bother to feel guilty about this one.) Also, Galavan probably has to endanger Bruce a bit more before getting killed off.
First person to mention Bruce’s mother – I felt the lack in this episode, in particular - will get a slow, shocked round of applause.
The ninja Penguins were quite good, even if the stakes weren’t – at some point Victor and/or Butch is going to have to go. All those bullets Jim and Harvey let go? Sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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Date: 2016-03-06 11:50 pm (UTC)And yes, why Devon of all places?
Angela is great; I think I like Olivia Colman here better than in Broadchurch. When she told Pine to release his inner psychopath, she probably got a lot more than she bargained for especially once he went off-script.
As for Jed, my initial thought is that Billy is her brother. Jed seems to be great around children, so Billy could possibly be a son though.
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Date: 2016-03-07 07:47 pm (UTC)I suppose Devon was isolated/a controllable place or it came down to the fact that they had contacts with the police there.
I've never seen Broadchurch, but I've always liked Colman and this is a good part for her.
Have you seen the third episode yet? We get a few more answers...