The Hour, The Mentalist and Castle
Dec. 15th, 2012 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessThe Hour series 2 finale
!!!
I mean, I was expecting it from the last episode, and knew it was coming after the kiss. Didn’t stop me from calling Freddie an idiot from the second he told Kiki to run ahead.
Before that, so much of the good. Isaac continues to break my heart with his pining, and of course, one feels sorry for Cissy too. “I’d have given you away” when she was never his. I also hearted the fact that the radio play was about The Hour. A really nice moment for two characters who are usually afterthoughts (you’re engaged? how nice, back to my professional/personal crisis. You’re writing a play? good for you, back to my professional/personal crisis. NO WONDER CISSY DIDN’T TELL THEM AT THE OFFICE.)
McCain being willing to open up and help – the previously unfortunately edited Randall’s encounter with him, making it seem like the blackmail it wasn’t. For a second, I thought McCain was angling to join them. And the scene where he was explaining his job with Peter ‘The Thick of It’ Capaldi sitting right there was almost as meta-hilarious as all the Freddie-James Bond/Moneypenny stuff (although I couldn’t quite bring myself to laugh at the end of the episode.)
Actually, I liked – as I’ve done for most of this series – how the things the team set in motion bear (unexpected) fruit. As they were flapping about trying to get the programme together, you didn’t know if Stern, Kiki or McCain would come through. Okay, probably not Stern, and I called his suicide a scene or two before it happened. The way if all worked out was immensely satisfying.
As was Marnie’s character development. I LOVED HER when she called all the ITV men on their hypocrisy. And then her admission to Hector, and I really didn’t expect their relationship to reach this point. Making him the front page picture around the raid was an excellent way of keeping him on the team, and the tension underlying his interview with Kiki (on top of everything else) was also great.
LIX AND RANDALL and their girl and the inevitability of it and his reaction and her being there AND THEN breaking down in the loo, and OF COURSE Cissy had to be the one who called her.
And then Bel and Freddy. I really loved Garai’s acting. I don’t know that her letter and what she was saying in it was particularly convincing, but by then it was all agony because stupid Freddy plays the stupid hero, and even though it was funny to watch him just keep on riling his attackers, because that’s Freddy....... As you can see, I have no words, just punctuation.
So then I turned to The Mentalist, which is promoted by Jack Reacher, so I hope for an episode that knocks a cult that looks and smells like Scientology while that deal is going on. I'll be much briefer about 5.07. A proxy got to slap Jane for Lisbon, who was being especially arrogant and distant while wasting time on trying to break into the federal penitentiary in stupid ways. I am now more worried by what they’ve set up for Lisbon (although if we’re dealing with multimillionaires, bring back Mashburn too please). The right thing is to bring down the tribe-massacaring murderer of her source. The system doesn’t want her too. Uh-oh. That’s setting aside mysterious homeland security guy – I’m really confused now, is he the bloke from the limo with Polly Walker in the last episode. I am as wary as I always am with anything that goes back to Red John on this show.
Castle 2.20 €was fun, although the heart of it was Esposito and his partners. Fillion did make me go aww and laugh at his response to Beckett flirtling with someone else, although the fact she tried to break him like she was Bane and he was Bruce Wayne must have put the clean-cut robbery detective off. But the show is never going to do anything about Castle/Beckett, until it’s waaaaay too late, so...
!!!
I mean, I was expecting it from the last episode, and knew it was coming after the kiss. Didn’t stop me from calling Freddie an idiot from the second he told Kiki to run ahead.
Before that, so much of the good. Isaac continues to break my heart with his pining, and of course, one feels sorry for Cissy too. “I’d have given you away” when she was never his. I also hearted the fact that the radio play was about The Hour. A really nice moment for two characters who are usually afterthoughts (you’re engaged? how nice, back to my professional/personal crisis. You’re writing a play? good for you, back to my professional/personal crisis. NO WONDER CISSY DIDN’T TELL THEM AT THE OFFICE.)
McCain being willing to open up and help – the previously unfortunately edited Randall’s encounter with him, making it seem like the blackmail it wasn’t. For a second, I thought McCain was angling to join them. And the scene where he was explaining his job with Peter ‘The Thick of It’ Capaldi sitting right there was almost as meta-hilarious as all the Freddie-James Bond/Moneypenny stuff (although I couldn’t quite bring myself to laugh at the end of the episode.)
Actually, I liked – as I’ve done for most of this series – how the things the team set in motion bear (unexpected) fruit. As they were flapping about trying to get the programme together, you didn’t know if Stern, Kiki or McCain would come through. Okay, probably not Stern, and I called his suicide a scene or two before it happened. The way if all worked out was immensely satisfying.
As was Marnie’s character development. I LOVED HER when she called all the ITV men on their hypocrisy. And then her admission to Hector, and I really didn’t expect their relationship to reach this point. Making him the front page picture around the raid was an excellent way of keeping him on the team, and the tension underlying his interview with Kiki (on top of everything else) was also great.
LIX AND RANDALL and their girl and the inevitability of it and his reaction and her being there AND THEN breaking down in the loo, and OF COURSE Cissy had to be the one who called her.
And then Bel and Freddy. I really loved Garai’s acting. I don’t know that her letter and what she was saying in it was particularly convincing, but by then it was all agony because stupid Freddy plays the stupid hero, and even though it was funny to watch him just keep on riling his attackers, because that’s Freddy....... As you can see, I have no words, just punctuation.
So then I turned to The Mentalist, which is promoted by Jack Reacher, so I hope for an episode that knocks a cult that looks and smells like Scientology while that deal is going on. I'll be much briefer about 5.07. A proxy got to slap Jane for Lisbon, who was being especially arrogant and distant while wasting time on trying to break into the federal penitentiary in stupid ways. I am now more worried by what they’ve set up for Lisbon (although if we’re dealing with multimillionaires, bring back Mashburn too please). The right thing is to bring down the tribe-massacaring murderer of her source. The system doesn’t want her too. Uh-oh. That’s setting aside mysterious homeland security guy – I’m really confused now, is he the bloke from the limo with Polly Walker in the last episode. I am as wary as I always am with anything that goes back to Red John on this show.
Castle 2.20 €was fun, although the heart of it was Esposito and his partners. Fillion did make me go aww and laugh at his response to Beckett flirtling with someone else, although the fact she tried to break him like she was Bane and he was Bruce Wayne must have put the clean-cut robbery detective off. But the show is never going to do anything about Castle/Beckett, until it’s waaaaay too late, so...
