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shallownessCollateral episode 4
Mixed feelings about how this all came together, but I expected that, given that this was a murder on which a state of the nation drama was hooked. Did The System win? I wondered more about whether The System was accurately portrayed - n, the scene where David met his boss was already scuppered by Big Ben, because it was filmed before they started work on it. And then the talk about free trade/free movement was kind of about Brexit but felt like Hare was too timid to tie it to a specific time. Also, I don’t think the whips would have been so lax.
Poor Genevieve – claim back the money and run. (Billie Piper was good as a character who sort of went nowhere, but did it mysteriously, then dramatically and self-destructively.) I’m not going to think too much about the future of the kids, because it’ll be depressing.
The birth of a new British citizen got to be cut in with everything.
Jane sort of faded out – Laurie’s letter was too vague to be helpful for the police surely. Better to go see her grieving mother (we didn’t see quite enough of Jane being this wonderful priest she was claiming to be, I thought.)
While it felt effective to hear Laurie’s voice from the grave (an echo of hearing the dead man’s voice on the video that Kip rightly jabbed her sergeant for not watching), Sandrine writing (another vague letter about the morality of what she’d done) seemed like one use too many of that device. Okay, her doubts about the killing remained – she wasn’t entirely convinced it was justified and so felt unsettled about having done it. And she hadn’t found a purpose after all she’d been through, and she had just got raped.
Waiting for the wife was an interesting move (of course a playwright would want a scene of dialogue, not violence). And the scene became more and more complex, with Mrs Rapist coming across as quite strong – I think being an enabler makes her an accessory which is not the same as being a rapist, Sandrine. Not that Sandrine’s perspective was anything but well off. ANYway, the wife turning out to believe Sandrine’s claims and finally acknowledging the pattern – that her husband was always denigrating the women he worked with – was very of the moment and felt good.
The show has been pretty good about women talking and the value of those varied conversations.
So, to Kip. It turned out that it was all a massive clever bluff based on guesswork. I suppose it could only take her so far, and by letting Sandrine know she’d been lied to about her target, she faltered, broke the connection and yeah. Mulligan is always great to watch, and she carried off the intelligence well. The scene with Spade was satisfying, because he had underestimated her (because she was a woman). The scene with her boss, where she had been right to infer he was pushing her back to the detention centre, but where he was totally right to tell her that raising people’s hopes without authorisation was going too far. But at least she cleared up her mess on that.
Sandrine was let down by many, many more people before she and Kip met.
Oh, and could someone please cast Mulligan opposite whoever was playing the (shirtless) reporter again, because I thought they had chemistry (possibly aided by the sex brought in the room by the character and the hostility between them, plus the shirtlessness)?
As for the big topics raised? Eh, I was engaging at the level of ‘oh, I was just thinking I find Van Morrison MOR’. Hare surprisingly gave the security services in the form of Sam Spence and his agent a good reason for what they’d done – STOPPING TERRORISTS! And the fact that her mistake led to the killing added moral weight. And of course, the kingpin walked away. We ended on a sort of circularity, with the pizza joint back in business, paid for by its shadowy company…
Anyway, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is back, (season 5!) and it was very funny but Jake’s time in prison was pretty dark, so I am pleased it only lasted as long as the time spend in Florida and not the length of time they separated Holt from the precinct. I still overidentify with Amy so much e.g. over the books thing.
Mixed feelings about how this all came together, but I expected that, given that this was a murder on which a state of the nation drama was hooked. Did The System win? I wondered more about whether The System was accurately portrayed - n, the scene where David met his boss was already scuppered by Big Ben, because it was filmed before they started work on it. And then the talk about free trade/free movement was kind of about Brexit but felt like Hare was too timid to tie it to a specific time. Also, I don’t think the whips would have been so lax.
Poor Genevieve – claim back the money and run. (Billie Piper was good as a character who sort of went nowhere, but did it mysteriously, then dramatically and self-destructively.) I’m not going to think too much about the future of the kids, because it’ll be depressing.
The birth of a new British citizen got to be cut in with everything.
Jane sort of faded out – Laurie’s letter was too vague to be helpful for the police surely. Better to go see her grieving mother (we didn’t see quite enough of Jane being this wonderful priest she was claiming to be, I thought.)
While it felt effective to hear Laurie’s voice from the grave (an echo of hearing the dead man’s voice on the video that Kip rightly jabbed her sergeant for not watching), Sandrine writing (another vague letter about the morality of what she’d done) seemed like one use too many of that device. Okay, her doubts about the killing remained – she wasn’t entirely convinced it was justified and so felt unsettled about having done it. And she hadn’t found a purpose after all she’d been through, and she had just got raped.
Waiting for the wife was an interesting move (of course a playwright would want a scene of dialogue, not violence). And the scene became more and more complex, with Mrs Rapist coming across as quite strong – I think being an enabler makes her an accessory which is not the same as being a rapist, Sandrine. Not that Sandrine’s perspective was anything but well off. ANYway, the wife turning out to believe Sandrine’s claims and finally acknowledging the pattern – that her husband was always denigrating the women he worked with – was very of the moment and felt good.
The show has been pretty good about women talking and the value of those varied conversations.
So, to Kip. It turned out that it was all a massive clever bluff based on guesswork. I suppose it could only take her so far, and by letting Sandrine know she’d been lied to about her target, she faltered, broke the connection and yeah. Mulligan is always great to watch, and she carried off the intelligence well. The scene with Spade was satisfying, because he had underestimated her (because she was a woman). The scene with her boss, where she had been right to infer he was pushing her back to the detention centre, but where he was totally right to tell her that raising people’s hopes without authorisation was going too far. But at least she cleared up her mess on that.
Sandrine was let down by many, many more people before she and Kip met.
Oh, and could someone please cast Mulligan opposite whoever was playing the (shirtless) reporter again, because I thought they had chemistry (possibly aided by the sex brought in the room by the character and the hostility between them, plus the shirtlessness)?
As for the big topics raised? Eh, I was engaging at the level of ‘oh, I was just thinking I find Van Morrison MOR’. Hare surprisingly gave the security services in the form of Sam Spence and his agent a good reason for what they’d done – STOPPING TERRORISTS! And the fact that her mistake led to the killing added moral weight. And of course, the kingpin walked away. We ended on a sort of circularity, with the pizza joint back in business, paid for by its shadowy company…
Anyway, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is back, (season 5!) and it was very funny but Jake’s time in prison was pretty dark, so I am pleased it only lasted as long as the time spend in Florida and not the length of time they separated Holt from the precinct. I still overidentify with Amy so much e.g. over the books thing.
