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shallownessParks and Rec 6.22 Moving Up part 2
Lots of time taken up by the Unity concert celebrating Pawnee’s unity with some less important place. I loved all the Little Sebastian stuff. April and Andy were very adorable, there was at least acknowledgement of the problems with Tom’s Bistro opening when it did, and we had the return of many a familiar face - Tammy Two was almost lowkey, as Ron resisted temptation and did the big Duke Silver reveal we'd always known he would.
I was gleeful that Ben’s loyal accountants had got him the rights to the Cones of Dunshire.
It felt like a real adieu, with the huge scope of the concert – the extras must have had fun – and the attempt to resolve Leslie’s promotion. I mean, you couldn’t see anyone else leaving Pawnee with her and Ben. I wonder if they though this episode could be the big goodbye for the whole show. Anyway, they did find a way for Leslie to ‘move up’ but not away, and the fact that Ron had been working on the third floor all this time suggested it wasn’t just pulled out of the bag.
The flashforward was a glimpse of chaos, with Leslie’s life looking more like The West Wing than ever before, Jon Hamm joined the long list of cameos. And...yeah.
It looks like Dave will be airing the next series with no break, too.
The Musketeers 3.9 The Prize
This penultimate episode ever was quite the business, bookended, as it was, by death. First, Louis’s death, as set up all season. Of course he was making a fool of himself, sword-fighting beyond his strength and being humoured by Treville (understandably the star of this episode; Speer had a twinkle in his eyes at times, playing out a character he’s performed for three years’s big finish). The coughing of blood into white gloves was inevitable.
Anne’s genuine distress at this point was good.
But we all knew Louis's demise was coming, so I was a bit miffed by the obvious flaws in Treville’s grand plan for keeping theDauphinKing safe. Even if the timing and later twists were unexpected, you’d have thought he would have prepared the ground a little more. But no, he hands the kid to Athos (cute!) who then goes to find Constance (I initially approved because it’s Constance) and Sylvie (another one who’s magically recovered from serious wounds!) and dumps the kid on them. Sylvie flirted with ‘future oppressive king’ feelings, but stuck to ‘cute kid in danger’.
More seriously, Treville, Athos and Constance were all reacting there and then and hadn’t thought a hideout through. Sylvie and Constance went to familiar places (and although I thought that was tactically dunderheaded, I did like the fact we revisited the laundry and Constance’s former home where she and D’Artagnan had all that UST, even if I got moderately worried for the pairing). When Grimaud got the time to think about it, the list of people Treville would trust who are in the credits and whom they needed to watch was tiny.
Apart from that quibble, I mostly enjoyed Treville’s manouvering. Surprisingly good call, Louis, in making the ex-soldier Regent! Even if, again, it was an unfair slap in the face to Anne (he could have made her co-Regent to soften the whole Spanish-born thing). But the theme of dividing and conquering the enemy was good (Lorraine, Gaston and Grimaud’s different agendas and personalities blended really well together, actually, with Gaston’s pouting drama and Grimaud still not knowing his place in the Watsonian and Doyelsian scheme of things), echoed by the division between Our Heroes, because of the secret plot to ‘keep the King safe’ (see above for how shoddy that plot was, mind). I could totally see Treville and the Musketeers vs. Anne and Aramis’s POVs, and when Constance weakened and came up with her terrible compromise (which totally worked in the moment, because everyone was turning on Anne AND HAD ABDUCTED HER SON ON HER, so Constance thought she was finding a way to be a friend while remaining honourable) it was all too understandable.
The interaction between the Musketeers and their swagger in dealing with the Red Guard et al was great. Although Porthos chided him, I was with Aramis on his reaction to the news of Louis’s death ‘Poor lonely Queen, must comfort!’ I can’t see how a stable relationship could develop between the widowed Anne and him, but I’d really like it to happen.
Also, D'Artagnan getting stabbed and staying quiet before launching a doomed attack? Attaboy.
We had lots of Louvre gorgeousness to enjoy.
And then after all that time in the sun, being not bad as a leader, Treville died – saving the boy King, which felt as it should be. As the Musketeers grieved, I wondered who is in charge now? Athos will have to step up some, but who actually is Regent?
One episode to go...on Monday
Lots of time taken up by the Unity concert celebrating Pawnee’s unity with some less important place. I loved all the Little Sebastian stuff. April and Andy were very adorable, there was at least acknowledgement of the problems with Tom’s Bistro opening when it did, and we had the return of many a familiar face - Tammy Two was almost lowkey, as Ron resisted temptation and did the big Duke Silver reveal we'd always known he would.
I was gleeful that Ben’s loyal accountants had got him the rights to the Cones of Dunshire.
It felt like a real adieu, with the huge scope of the concert – the extras must have had fun – and the attempt to resolve Leslie’s promotion. I mean, you couldn’t see anyone else leaving Pawnee with her and Ben. I wonder if they though this episode could be the big goodbye for the whole show. Anyway, they did find a way for Leslie to ‘move up’ but not away, and the fact that Ron had been working on the third floor all this time suggested it wasn’t just pulled out of the bag.
The flashforward was a glimpse of chaos, with Leslie’s life looking more like The West Wing than ever before, Jon Hamm joined the long list of cameos. And...yeah.
It looks like Dave will be airing the next series with no break, too.
The Musketeers 3.9 The Prize
This penultimate episode ever was quite the business, bookended, as it was, by death. First, Louis’s death, as set up all season. Of course he was making a fool of himself, sword-fighting beyond his strength and being humoured by Treville (understandably the star of this episode; Speer had a twinkle in his eyes at times, playing out a character he’s performed for three years’s big finish). The coughing of blood into white gloves was inevitable.
Anne’s genuine distress at this point was good.
But we all knew Louis's demise was coming, so I was a bit miffed by the obvious flaws in Treville’s grand plan for keeping the
More seriously, Treville, Athos and Constance were all reacting there and then and hadn’t thought a hideout through. Sylvie and Constance went to familiar places (and although I thought that was tactically dunderheaded, I did like the fact we revisited the laundry and Constance’s former home where she and D’Artagnan had all that UST, even if I got moderately worried for the pairing). When Grimaud got the time to think about it, the list of people Treville would trust who are in the credits and whom they needed to watch was tiny.
Apart from that quibble, I mostly enjoyed Treville’s manouvering. Surprisingly good call, Louis, in making the ex-soldier Regent! Even if, again, it was an unfair slap in the face to Anne (he could have made her co-Regent to soften the whole Spanish-born thing). But the theme of dividing and conquering the enemy was good (Lorraine, Gaston and Grimaud’s different agendas and personalities blended really well together, actually, with Gaston’s pouting drama and Grimaud still not knowing his place in the Watsonian and Doyelsian scheme of things), echoed by the division between Our Heroes, because of the secret plot to ‘keep the King safe’ (see above for how shoddy that plot was, mind). I could totally see Treville and the Musketeers vs. Anne and Aramis’s POVs, and when Constance weakened and came up with her terrible compromise (which totally worked in the moment, because everyone was turning on Anne AND HAD ABDUCTED HER SON ON HER, so Constance thought she was finding a way to be a friend while remaining honourable) it was all too understandable.
The interaction between the Musketeers and their swagger in dealing with the Red Guard et al was great. Although Porthos chided him, I was with Aramis on his reaction to the news of Louis’s death ‘Poor lonely Queen, must comfort!’ I can’t see how a stable relationship could develop between the widowed Anne and him, but I’d really like it to happen.
Also, D'Artagnan getting stabbed and staying quiet before launching a doomed attack? Attaboy.
We had lots of Louvre gorgeousness to enjoy.
And then after all that time in the sun, being not bad as a leader, Treville died – saving the boy King, which felt as it should be. As the Musketeers grieved, I wondered who is in charge now? Athos will have to step up some, but who actually is Regent?
One episode to go...on Monday
