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shallowness) wrote2018-01-31 06:59 am
shallowness) wrote2018-01-31 06:59 am
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Next of Kin (ep 4)
Next of Kin
I wasn’t struck so much by people’s stupidity (although the terrorists using Danesh for their next attack seemed a bit thick. Apart from the likelihood of his having an epileptic attack because they were with-holding pills that might control it for him, he’s been trying to run away a lot so I wouldn’t call him reliable) as their naivete (hi, Guy! It never occurred to you that Khaled might be well dodgy?) And then there was the lying that continued. Mona and Guy still stuck to the cover story about how she got shot, she lied about why she’d been with the police – although the adults started getting the message when she said she couldn’t talk about things.
She did push her mother’s assumptions about sweet little Danny and his not-good-enough stepmother, and we found out that the grandmother had funded the trip to Pakistan. But if Mona’s views about Danny had changed, given the evidence, the conversation about Sani and Kareem with Guy was interesting. She was facing the possibility that her son could grow up to be that disgruntled/gullible (if your family carries on doing well-meaning but unhelpful stuff and lying about it…) and end up where Danny was. Guy reacted furiously, partly because he’s a white Englishman and this is his son they’re talking about, and I suspect Sani hadn’t asked him anything like he asked Mona, pointing to the suspicions of the other kids. But Mona’s own buttons were pushed when Guy demolished her vision of saintly Kareem.
As for Mona not letting Guy in, I think a part of that has been already explained by her having to grow up too soon, and these are extreme circumstances. While bringing in Guy’s boss makes sense, the trailers suggest they’re going to push things even further beyond credibility next week. As it is, this terrorist organisation apparently has only one cell, so they’re probably using Danny because of lack of people. (Obviously, it’s for plot and maximum tension.)
Couldn’t feel too sorry for Danny that the police hadn’t come to extract him, even though he looked young once he’d shaved his beard off. He should just be glad that nobody got shot like they did the last time he was in a car!
They went overboard with the flaring effect of the titles in the episode itself. It didn’t so much convey or express a mood as make you irritated that you couldn’t see what was going on.
The police didn’t seem that stupid. I mean you say ‘courageous’ about Townsend, I say ‘reckless’ and mutter that one of his companions was the one who shot Mona.
No time to discuss TV news of note.
I wasn’t struck so much by people’s stupidity (although the terrorists using Danesh for their next attack seemed a bit thick. Apart from the likelihood of his having an epileptic attack because they were with-holding pills that might control it for him, he’s been trying to run away a lot so I wouldn’t call him reliable) as their naivete (hi, Guy! It never occurred to you that Khaled might be well dodgy?) And then there was the lying that continued. Mona and Guy still stuck to the cover story about how she got shot, she lied about why she’d been with the police – although the adults started getting the message when she said she couldn’t talk about things.
She did push her mother’s assumptions about sweet little Danny and his not-good-enough stepmother, and we found out that the grandmother had funded the trip to Pakistan. But if Mona’s views about Danny had changed, given the evidence, the conversation about Sani and Kareem with Guy was interesting. She was facing the possibility that her son could grow up to be that disgruntled/gullible (if your family carries on doing well-meaning but unhelpful stuff and lying about it…) and end up where Danny was. Guy reacted furiously, partly because he’s a white Englishman and this is his son they’re talking about, and I suspect Sani hadn’t asked him anything like he asked Mona, pointing to the suspicions of the other kids. But Mona’s own buttons were pushed when Guy demolished her vision of saintly Kareem.
As for Mona not letting Guy in, I think a part of that has been already explained by her having to grow up too soon, and these are extreme circumstances. While bringing in Guy’s boss makes sense, the trailers suggest they’re going to push things even further beyond credibility next week. As it is, this terrorist organisation apparently has only one cell, so they’re probably using Danny because of lack of people. (Obviously, it’s for plot and maximum tension.)
Couldn’t feel too sorry for Danny that the police hadn’t come to extract him, even though he looked young once he’d shaved his beard off. He should just be glad that nobody got shot like they did the last time he was in a car!
They went overboard with the flaring effect of the titles in the episode itself. It didn’t so much convey or express a mood as make you irritated that you couldn’t see what was going on.
The police didn’t seem that stupid. I mean you say ‘courageous’ about Townsend, I say ‘reckless’ and mutter that one of his companions was the one who shot Mona.
No time to discuss TV news of note.