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shallowness) wrote2018-09-25 07:45 am
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Killing Eve 1.2 I’ll Deal With Him Later
Not as wowzer and ep as the first, somewhat inevitably, but Eve gets the job of hunting after Vilanelle, and Vilanelle finds out, which we knew they would from the trailers. (Maybe I shouldn’t have watched the teaser for the next episode, being such a spoilerphobe.) Both realised that they’d met. We found out a little more about Vilanelle –that someone named Anna with hair like Eve’s, mattered to her.
I was interrupted during the scene where Vilanelle was being tested, so I think I missed something.
Alas, pretty Sebastian, the neighbour.
And I appreciated the explanation for Eve being born in the UK, raised in the States, as that had been bugging me.
Many of the same points about ep 1 apply: appreciating the funny focus on human details, foibles, and Vilanelle’s methods. The music is still going ‘look at how cool I am’ as much as boosting the scenes. I’m sure I had more to say, but I’ve seen two shows and read many chapters of Lethal White in the meantime.
Bodyguard finale
A sixth of a nation hastily remembers/relearns spoiler etiquette, which may be this show’s greatest achievement…
The previouslies, again, elucidated something, namely that Luke, the Organised Crime guy, was at the military charity, and therefore, had a link with Andrew the sniper. Developments occurred at pace, then, with the link between cops and organised crime becoming ever clearer, David’s clever idea of shaking down gun-dealers and using Chanelle to get to her backers backfired.
Oh, boy, did it. Possibly for me the stretch of David in a vest was too long, like maybe the episode needed to be 70 minutes, not 75, because I started thinking about how there was no way he’d get shot/blown up before having had his mano-a-mano moment with who was behind it all. But at first, it was brilliant, the irony of the situation, the image of him in the vest, just as his lies had caught up with him. Louise was so betrayed! Understandably so, although not quite in the way she thought. Less hurt coppers were seeing what the framer wanted them to see, and much of what David tried to argue to prove his innocence was making it worse, like ‘yeah, I was suicidal that time’ ‘you’re wearing a suicide bomb vest’ ‘but it’s the method and why I failed that matters’ ‘you’re wearing a suicide bomb vest’ ‘but look at my faaaaaace’.
It was so interesting to watch David be David on the other end of the talking-down the dangerous person scenario. Plus, like Deepak, I thought Ann Samson had been deeply suspicious about Luke. (In hindsight, Ann being suspicious worked as cover for Lorraine Craddock abandoning him, but it was plausible enough that she’d have given up on him at that point, anyhow.)
VICKY! Her presence as the mother of his kids and someone he cared about, someone he’d lied to a fair bit, but who could see he was suffering, added another level of emotion as well as tension to the whole scenario. But for her to volunteer as his human shield – EEEE. VICKY!
I liked the very dry, almost affectless bombs expert, and the wavering visual effect that suggested that David was at the end of his rag. And although the individual officers were changing their minds because of the evidence David was offering – I LOVED how he gave them Longcross. And, in hindsight, of course he’d moved the CompMat from where we’d seen him put it - all the while the top brass of the secret service, the new Home Sec and the seemingly corrupt upper echelons of the police were thinking that David was a convenient figure to pin everything on – even if everything didn’t stack up. Although he seemed to have a better idea of what’s in a bomb than a civilian, he didn’t necessarily have the expertise to make the bomb.
Minor quibble: how did he know where Chanelle lived?
For it to be his immediate boss who Luke had gone to – ouch. (And we’d been expecting Samson, right?) I can’t have been the only one to howl ‘And Kim,’ because, fine, David, be focused on who killed your lover, but Craddock’s actions killed a member of her time, too, so vowing she’d never do anything that would hurt kids was a tiny fig leaf.
But there was the question of the bomb-maker swirling about, for me, and then we had one of the more professional interrogations (in that David wasn’t in the room, but watching with Honourable Deepak, who was so honourable he’d let David know Longcross had been released when it might have been more judicious to hold back on that until after. But it’d have made for a less exciting episode.) For it to have been Nadiya, underestimated Nadiya (because of David’s humanity as much as his prejudices) – well played.
It stands up. I honestly didn’t expect it to stand up. I mean, Mercurio managed to indict all kinds of institutions, with the line about organised crime finding the police easier to manipulate. But the involvement of the guilty parties made sense, AND there was a happy ending. David finally got some help – he had promised he’d go for some, after! The David who came to visit his family seemed much less burdened, and there was a hint more like the man Vicky married. He seemed to appreciate that she’d saved his life.
Obviously, this is within the parameters of the skewed world created in the show.
The ending is open, too, because the new Home Sec (all scrubbed up in a proper suit now) remains – as Home Sec, presumably, although there has to be a new PM. And Ann Samson still has wisps of suspicion around her, because she was a bit squiffy over not remembering this guy in organised crime, which used to be her job. So, for all that she seemed more righteous later, (I’m not holding wanting to take David down against her, it was a reasonable assessment, objectively speaking), she might still be corrupt. But she was certainly in a stronger position, having brought down the secret service chief, the Home Sec owing her, the threat of RIPA 18 gone and Craddock turning out to be the Inside Woman.
Given how well the show has been received, I think the Beeb will be begging Mercurio to bring back David Budd and co.
Not as wowzer and ep as the first, somewhat inevitably, but Eve gets the job of hunting after Vilanelle, and Vilanelle finds out, which we knew they would from the trailers. (Maybe I shouldn’t have watched the teaser for the next episode, being such a spoilerphobe.) Both realised that they’d met. We found out a little more about Vilanelle –that someone named Anna with hair like Eve’s, mattered to her.
I was interrupted during the scene where Vilanelle was being tested, so I think I missed something.
Alas, pretty Sebastian, the neighbour.
And I appreciated the explanation for Eve being born in the UK, raised in the States, as that had been bugging me.
Many of the same points about ep 1 apply: appreciating the funny focus on human details, foibles, and Vilanelle’s methods. The music is still going ‘look at how cool I am’ as much as boosting the scenes. I’m sure I had more to say, but I’ve seen two shows and read many chapters of Lethal White in the meantime.
Bodyguard finale
A sixth of a nation hastily remembers/relearns spoiler etiquette, which may be this show’s greatest achievement…
The previouslies, again, elucidated something, namely that Luke, the Organised Crime guy, was at the military charity, and therefore, had a link with Andrew the sniper. Developments occurred at pace, then, with the link between cops and organised crime becoming ever clearer, David’s clever idea of shaking down gun-dealers and using Chanelle to get to her backers backfired.
Oh, boy, did it. Possibly for me the stretch of David in a vest was too long, like maybe the episode needed to be 70 minutes, not 75, because I started thinking about how there was no way he’d get shot/blown up before having had his mano-a-mano moment with who was behind it all. But at first, it was brilliant, the irony of the situation, the image of him in the vest, just as his lies had caught up with him. Louise was so betrayed! Understandably so, although not quite in the way she thought. Less hurt coppers were seeing what the framer wanted them to see, and much of what David tried to argue to prove his innocence was making it worse, like ‘yeah, I was suicidal that time’ ‘you’re wearing a suicide bomb vest’ ‘but it’s the method and why I failed that matters’ ‘you’re wearing a suicide bomb vest’ ‘but look at my faaaaaace’.
It was so interesting to watch David be David on the other end of the talking-down the dangerous person scenario. Plus, like Deepak, I thought Ann Samson had been deeply suspicious about Luke. (In hindsight, Ann being suspicious worked as cover for Lorraine Craddock abandoning him, but it was plausible enough that she’d have given up on him at that point, anyhow.)
VICKY! Her presence as the mother of his kids and someone he cared about, someone he’d lied to a fair bit, but who could see he was suffering, added another level of emotion as well as tension to the whole scenario. But for her to volunteer as his human shield – EEEE. VICKY!
I liked the very dry, almost affectless bombs expert, and the wavering visual effect that suggested that David was at the end of his rag. And although the individual officers were changing their minds because of the evidence David was offering – I LOVED how he gave them Longcross. And, in hindsight, of course he’d moved the CompMat from where we’d seen him put it - all the while the top brass of the secret service, the new Home Sec and the seemingly corrupt upper echelons of the police were thinking that David was a convenient figure to pin everything on – even if everything didn’t stack up. Although he seemed to have a better idea of what’s in a bomb than a civilian, he didn’t necessarily have the expertise to make the bomb.
Minor quibble: how did he know where Chanelle lived?
For it to be his immediate boss who Luke had gone to – ouch. (And we’d been expecting Samson, right?) I can’t have been the only one to howl ‘And Kim,’ because, fine, David, be focused on who killed your lover, but Craddock’s actions killed a member of her time, too, so vowing she’d never do anything that would hurt kids was a tiny fig leaf.
But there was the question of the bomb-maker swirling about, for me, and then we had one of the more professional interrogations (in that David wasn’t in the room, but watching with Honourable Deepak, who was so honourable he’d let David know Longcross had been released when it might have been more judicious to hold back on that until after. But it’d have made for a less exciting episode.) For it to have been Nadiya, underestimated Nadiya (because of David’s humanity as much as his prejudices) – well played.
It stands up. I honestly didn’t expect it to stand up. I mean, Mercurio managed to indict all kinds of institutions, with the line about organised crime finding the police easier to manipulate. But the involvement of the guilty parties made sense, AND there was a happy ending. David finally got some help – he had promised he’d go for some, after! The David who came to visit his family seemed much less burdened, and there was a hint more like the man Vicky married. He seemed to appreciate that she’d saved his life.
Obviously, this is within the parameters of the skewed world created in the show.
The ending is open, too, because the new Home Sec (all scrubbed up in a proper suit now) remains – as Home Sec, presumably, although there has to be a new PM. And Ann Samson still has wisps of suspicion around her, because she was a bit squiffy over not remembering this guy in organised crime, which used to be her job. So, for all that she seemed more righteous later, (I’m not holding wanting to take David down against her, it was a reasonable assessment, objectively speaking), she might still be corrupt. But she was certainly in a stronger position, having brought down the secret service chief, the Home Sec owing her, the threat of RIPA 18 gone and Craddock turning out to be the Inside Woman.
Given how well the show has been received, I think the Beeb will be begging Mercurio to bring back David Budd and co.