McMafia episode 6
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shallownessMcMafia – episode 6
Rebecca, already suspicious because Alex had gone to Israel just when all the Kleiman-related stuff had gone down – bad stuff – noticed Alex was paranoid and afraid. Instead of talking to her (and admitting what he’d done – ha, as if) he sent her away for her own protection. I liked the moment where he panicked because she took him up on moving out right then, because it was obvious he hadn’t thought it through. The reveal that she was pregnant might be a cheap cliché, but it added something to all her scenes up till then that episode and made the French assassin stone cold.
There was some misdirection to keep us guessing towards the end – were the strike team after Oksana? No, they were after the more vulnerable Rebecca. Who was their operative and who was Alex’s team’s officer?
But, silly Benes, (and I feel a bit daft for noting that he’d underplayed what had happened to Karolina and not suspecting he’d been turned there and then) although the Russians were your immediate threat, Alex probably meant what he said about coming after you. After all, it was Vadim killing Uncle Boris that got him into all this. And it doesn’t look as if he’s going to be extricated soon.
As for that family Alex was so desperate to protect: we learned that Rebecca’s immediate family, who I was imagining as so boring that they probably all voted the same way on Brexit, handily didn’t exist. Alex learned about Masha’s baby – I am confused as to whether Masha was the lover that Oksana found out about, because I didn’t recognise her. Meanwhile Oksana and her bodyguard were delightful. For one thing, the actress playing Jenny had no lines, but she did a great job at wordlessly reacting. Oksana basically wanted to treat Jenny as a companion, not a bodyguard. Her dress was much nicer than the rather funereal one Rebecca was contemplating.
Meanwhile, after conversing with Alex, Vadim had to come up with some of the action he’d threatened. The whole argument about whether to do violence on British soil would have had more weight IF HE HADN’T KILLED BORIS IN HIS COUNTRY HOME. Anyway, he was making all these plans to go after enemies’ families while hanging out with his sweet, sweet innocent daughter and urging her to go abroad. Hmm. Wasn’t it London she was thinking of, as she TOLD ALEX?
Meanwhile Joseph moved from Tel Aviv to London, mainly in the hope of freeing Lyudimilla (sp?). The little scene where she made a slight move on him would have landed better if Joseph had had some reaction after saying ‘she didn’t have to’, which too right she didn’t. I blame the director and actor for letting him stand there like a lump of wood. Either he fancies her or it’s platonic chivalry but ambiguity adds nothing.
Anyway, I’d sort of love Oksana and her bodyguard’s day out in London, the movie, where Oksana is trying to humanise Jenny, and Jenny keeps thwarting assassins. Comedy gold.
Rebecca, already suspicious because Alex had gone to Israel just when all the Kleiman-related stuff had gone down – bad stuff – noticed Alex was paranoid and afraid. Instead of talking to her (and admitting what he’d done – ha, as if) he sent her away for her own protection. I liked the moment where he panicked because she took him up on moving out right then, because it was obvious he hadn’t thought it through. The reveal that she was pregnant might be a cheap cliché, but it added something to all her scenes up till then that episode and made the French assassin stone cold.
There was some misdirection to keep us guessing towards the end – were the strike team after Oksana? No, they were after the more vulnerable Rebecca. Who was their operative and who was Alex’s team’s officer?
But, silly Benes, (and I feel a bit daft for noting that he’d underplayed what had happened to Karolina and not suspecting he’d been turned there and then) although the Russians were your immediate threat, Alex probably meant what he said about coming after you. After all, it was Vadim killing Uncle Boris that got him into all this. And it doesn’t look as if he’s going to be extricated soon.
As for that family Alex was so desperate to protect: we learned that Rebecca’s immediate family, who I was imagining as so boring that they probably all voted the same way on Brexit, handily didn’t exist. Alex learned about Masha’s baby – I am confused as to whether Masha was the lover that Oksana found out about, because I didn’t recognise her. Meanwhile Oksana and her bodyguard were delightful. For one thing, the actress playing Jenny had no lines, but she did a great job at wordlessly reacting. Oksana basically wanted to treat Jenny as a companion, not a bodyguard. Her dress was much nicer than the rather funereal one Rebecca was contemplating.
Meanwhile, after conversing with Alex, Vadim had to come up with some of the action he’d threatened. The whole argument about whether to do violence on British soil would have had more weight IF HE HADN’T KILLED BORIS IN HIS COUNTRY HOME. Anyway, he was making all these plans to go after enemies’ families while hanging out with his sweet, sweet innocent daughter and urging her to go abroad. Hmm. Wasn’t it London she was thinking of, as she TOLD ALEX?
Meanwhile Joseph moved from Tel Aviv to London, mainly in the hope of freeing Lyudimilla (sp?). The little scene where she made a slight move on him would have landed better if Joseph had had some reaction after saying ‘she didn’t have to’, which too right she didn’t. I blame the director and actor for letting him stand there like a lump of wood. Either he fancies her or it’s platonic chivalry but ambiguity adds nothing.
Anyway, I’d sort of love Oksana and her bodyguard’s day out in London, the movie, where Oksana is trying to humanise Jenny, and Jenny keeps thwarting assassins. Comedy gold.
