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shallownessCollateral - Episode 3
It struck me more viscerally that this show is taking a good hard look at the state of the nation (and I note that the word ‘Britain’ not ‘England’ was used). This is probably because it was more explicitly stated in the dialogue, Linh’s point about how it was all about deals with who you know really struck home, even more after Kip’s big plea was ‘trust me and my leverage’ because she didn’t believe in the system running as it ought – probably because of how the immigration system was designed etc. Ouch. Bleak view. What price fair play?
We continued looking at ‘good’ people trying to help vs institutions trying to keep themselves going/keep the nation ‘together’ ‘running’, although we saw how fallible they were (Jane and her bishop tying themselves up in knots, and I’ll get to David in a bit). While I think Kip is smart and trying to solve the murders, Genevieve, the unimpressed and put upon Frnch au pair was my fave, mainly because she made me laugh. Also, she seemed to have an inkling that was escaping David and Karen – that the kids needed seeing to. Angry!David and Karen were too busy fighting, and enjoying it, mostly using the children, especially Effie, as ammunition. Not always, but ouch.
After the rape, we had an extra traumatised Sandrine. The shrink trying to expand her life, which seemed like a good idea, sent her to her useless mother, who probably would have low EQ even if she weren’t also grieving. And then there was the dangerous friend of the family, manipulating her paranoid and forever combat-ready attitude. Exactly what she needed. She’s still sympathetic, in her wrongheadedness, and in the moment you kind of thought if she didn’t do it in front of the kids or wife, assassinating her rapist would be a way to go, although she’s increasingly likely to be caught, but he was going to walk away scott free and probably perpetrate again.
I liked the new character – who got police names off Sam just in case. Not that it's as bad as people trafficking, but I noted the English baddie referring to them all as 'gentlemen' at the meeting, despite the fact that she talked the most, not the thugs who killed Laurie.
I’d have kept Kip’s angry deputy who always did things wrong off the case entirely, so I don’t care how cross he was at being kept out of the loop.
Surely deliberate to have BAME women around when David did his on-camera rant. (And it was a rant – he was surprised when it was quoted back to him.)
The only other show I wanted to catch up on was the resumption of Electric Dreams, but as it's an anthology series, there's less pressure, and as I had problems with most episodes last year and this won seems to have male protagonists, I'm less driven to.
It struck me more viscerally that this show is taking a good hard look at the state of the nation (and I note that the word ‘Britain’ not ‘England’ was used). This is probably because it was more explicitly stated in the dialogue, Linh’s point about how it was all about deals with who you know really struck home, even more after Kip’s big plea was ‘trust me and my leverage’ because she didn’t believe in the system running as it ought – probably because of how the immigration system was designed etc. Ouch. Bleak view. What price fair play?
We continued looking at ‘good’ people trying to help vs institutions trying to keep themselves going/keep the nation ‘together’ ‘running’, although we saw how fallible they were (Jane and her bishop tying themselves up in knots, and I’ll get to David in a bit). While I think Kip is smart and trying to solve the murders, Genevieve, the unimpressed and put upon Frnch au pair was my fave, mainly because she made me laugh. Also, she seemed to have an inkling that was escaping David and Karen – that the kids needed seeing to. Angry!David and Karen were too busy fighting, and enjoying it, mostly using the children, especially Effie, as ammunition. Not always, but ouch.
After the rape, we had an extra traumatised Sandrine. The shrink trying to expand her life, which seemed like a good idea, sent her to her useless mother, who probably would have low EQ even if she weren’t also grieving. And then there was the dangerous friend of the family, manipulating her paranoid and forever combat-ready attitude. Exactly what she needed. She’s still sympathetic, in her wrongheadedness, and in the moment you kind of thought if she didn’t do it in front of the kids or wife, assassinating her rapist would be a way to go, although she’s increasingly likely to be caught, but he was going to walk away scott free and probably perpetrate again.
I liked the new character – who got police names off Sam just in case. Not that it's as bad as people trafficking, but I noted the English baddie referring to them all as 'gentlemen' at the meeting, despite the fact that she talked the most, not the thugs who killed Laurie.
I’d have kept Kip’s angry deputy who always did things wrong off the case entirely, so I don’t care how cross he was at being kept out of the loop.
Surely deliberate to have BAME women around when David did his on-camera rant. (And it was a rant – he was surprised when it was quoted back to him.)
The only other show I wanted to catch up on was the resumption of Electric Dreams, but as it's an anthology series, there's less pressure, and as I had problems with most episodes last year and this won seems to have male protagonists, I'm less driven to.
