TV round-up
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shallownessBlindspot – episode 3
The handler breaking into the safehouse to talk to Jane when she’d stopped fighting him led nowhere. He got killed, like everyone, and the only thing he said of note was, ‘Trust no one’. Jane was then all I’m Fine Because I Don’t Remember My Baseline.
The show returned to it’s Tat of the Week format – technically there were two tattoos, but only one drove the A-plot, leading to a band of former special operatives turned jewel thieves who might know Jane. The one who did died before saying more than ‘Macguffin’. I mean, Orion.
Mostly the episode was about Jane finding her role in the team or the team figuring out what her role should be. She didn’t always help herself. I was surprised that Rob Brown’s character asked for her to have a gun, as he was very against her. It occurred to me that the team has more women in it than men, although the direction is of the type that’s gagging to be described as ‘muscular’. But there were a lot of filler flying over the city shots.
Weller had angst over whether he should tell Jane he thought he knew who she was. To my surprise (I thought they’d go for another twist), she was Taylor Shaw, which means she might find out about the first decade of her life - Alexander handled her mixed reaction beautifully – but nothing more recent.
And we learned that the boss lady is not to be trusted, and is in cahoots to keep secret a project named MacGuffin 2, sorry, Daylight, with That Guy who plays these parts (wasn’t he in The Mentalist?) but she’s not on board with killing Jane, and instead gave her a gun.
Moving on to something much better:
Killing Eve 1.6 Take Me To the Hotel
Ooh, plot developments. Villanelle went back to a Russian prison she’d been in before, with Eve hot on her heels. The scene with Niko was Very Dramatic, the violence was shocking, and Carolyn’s assessment of ‘you don’t like your husband’ damning. His POV is very reasonable, Eve was the aggressor, but we understand why she was so mad.
We got to see Carolyn’s spycraft – the flirtiness was fun, while knowing all the while that Konstantin was Villanelle’s handler and probably one of the 12 meant that we knew more than any of the characters. And then Eve, the novice in trading info and leveraging what she wanted used Carolyn’s indiscretions (or were they? Remains to be proved.) against her. And of course, there’s Kenny’s feelings about his mother’s secrets.
Meanwhile, even if she was a bit jumpy about returning somewhere people knew Oksana (I have a minor quibble at the amount of English spoken), Villanelle enjoyed making a pest of herself, getting the guard to beat her up, befriending a rage monster, turning her mission into enough of a killing spree to get her where (she thought) she wanted to be. Of course, she wouldn’t have had to do all this if she’d killed Nadia properly, and she was overconfident in promising Konstantin she’d be back in a day.
So, was Konstatin the one who’d promised to free Nadia? I suppose the note Nadia wrote may clarify things.
Is Eve right about Villanelle wanting out? She’s fairly amoral, but not stupid, if the trade-off is that she’s allowed to kill and do what she’s good at within boundaries, does she care about those boundaries or what the 12 are aiming to achieve, really?
This show is so good (though it’s even better when PhW-B pens the episodes.)
I watched Monarch of the Glen – and the continuity announcer claimed the last in the batch was the concluding part, but this took us to the end of season 2, and I really want to see the third series (not enough to buy it on DVD). Things were left intriguingly poised between Archie and Lexie…
Strictly Results:
Fun opening routine. Tess wore colour, but Shirley beat all for vibrancy and a swooshy skirt. The big question was whether they’d tell the contestants in two batches, or three (the howl of outraged surprise when there were eight couples left in the second group and Tess said four would have to wait was a bit silly.) Nice to relieve Charles and Karen first. Not surprising Seann and Katya were under the red light.
I fast-forwarded Paloma Faith’s performance, obviously.
Very nice entrance from the judges into the Clauditorium, the cherry on top being Claudia’s attempts to keep up with the routine. Obviously, Darcey was asked to expand on her 10, although she always stands up when she gives one. Alfonso entertained Claudia – overall, I though he did enough to be a regular stand-in for Bruno.
The last four were the right ones to be waiting, although I thought Ranj and Kate hadn’t done too badly. I also thought that the combination of Craig undermarking her, the dance being emotive and featuring AJ’s bare shirt would save Lauren, who looked as if she was going to be sick. Vick looked as if she were preparing herself for the dance-off. Darcey gave her rubbish advice.
I thought Seann was neater than he had been, Vick strained to do a straight leg, I kept looking at Grazziano’s legs to see if she’d managed. First split vote of the series.
The handler breaking into the safehouse to talk to Jane when she’d stopped fighting him led nowhere. He got killed, like everyone, and the only thing he said of note was, ‘Trust no one’. Jane was then all I’m Fine Because I Don’t Remember My Baseline.
The show returned to it’s Tat of the Week format – technically there were two tattoos, but only one drove the A-plot, leading to a band of former special operatives turned jewel thieves who might know Jane. The one who did died before saying more than ‘Macguffin’. I mean, Orion.
Mostly the episode was about Jane finding her role in the team or the team figuring out what her role should be. She didn’t always help herself. I was surprised that Rob Brown’s character asked for her to have a gun, as he was very against her. It occurred to me that the team has more women in it than men, although the direction is of the type that’s gagging to be described as ‘muscular’. But there were a lot of filler flying over the city shots.
Weller had angst over whether he should tell Jane he thought he knew who she was. To my surprise (I thought they’d go for another twist), she was Taylor Shaw, which means she might find out about the first decade of her life - Alexander handled her mixed reaction beautifully – but nothing more recent.
And we learned that the boss lady is not to be trusted, and is in cahoots to keep secret a project named MacGuffin 2, sorry, Daylight, with That Guy who plays these parts (wasn’t he in The Mentalist?) but she’s not on board with killing Jane, and instead gave her a gun.
Moving on to something much better:
Killing Eve 1.6 Take Me To the Hotel
Ooh, plot developments. Villanelle went back to a Russian prison she’d been in before, with Eve hot on her heels. The scene with Niko was Very Dramatic, the violence was shocking, and Carolyn’s assessment of ‘you don’t like your husband’ damning. His POV is very reasonable, Eve was the aggressor, but we understand why she was so mad.
We got to see Carolyn’s spycraft – the flirtiness was fun, while knowing all the while that Konstantin was Villanelle’s handler and probably one of the 12 meant that we knew more than any of the characters. And then Eve, the novice in trading info and leveraging what she wanted used Carolyn’s indiscretions (or were they? Remains to be proved.) against her. And of course, there’s Kenny’s feelings about his mother’s secrets.
Meanwhile, even if she was a bit jumpy about returning somewhere people knew Oksana (I have a minor quibble at the amount of English spoken), Villanelle enjoyed making a pest of herself, getting the guard to beat her up, befriending a rage monster, turning her mission into enough of a killing spree to get her where (she thought) she wanted to be. Of course, she wouldn’t have had to do all this if she’d killed Nadia properly, and she was overconfident in promising Konstantin she’d be back in a day.
So, was Konstatin the one who’d promised to free Nadia? I suppose the note Nadia wrote may clarify things.
Is Eve right about Villanelle wanting out? She’s fairly amoral, but not stupid, if the trade-off is that she’s allowed to kill and do what she’s good at within boundaries, does she care about those boundaries or what the 12 are aiming to achieve, really?
This show is so good (though it’s even better when PhW-B pens the episodes.)
I watched Monarch of the Glen – and the continuity announcer claimed the last in the batch was the concluding part, but this took us to the end of season 2, and I really want to see the third series (not enough to buy it on DVD). Things were left intriguingly poised between Archie and Lexie…
Strictly Results:
Fun opening routine. Tess wore colour, but Shirley beat all for vibrancy and a swooshy skirt. The big question was whether they’d tell the contestants in two batches, or three (the howl of outraged surprise when there were eight couples left in the second group and Tess said four would have to wait was a bit silly.) Nice to relieve Charles and Karen first. Not surprising Seann and Katya were under the red light.
I fast-forwarded Paloma Faith’s performance, obviously.
Very nice entrance from the judges into the Clauditorium, the cherry on top being Claudia’s attempts to keep up with the routine. Obviously, Darcey was asked to expand on her 10, although she always stands up when she gives one. Alfonso entertained Claudia – overall, I though he did enough to be a regular stand-in for Bruno.
The last four were the right ones to be waiting, although I thought Ranj and Kate hadn’t done too badly. I also thought that the combination of Craig undermarking her, the dance being emotive and featuring AJ’s bare shirt would save Lauren, who looked as if she was going to be sick. Vick looked as if she were preparing herself for the dance-off. Darcey gave her rubbish advice.
I thought Seann was neater than he had been, Vick strained to do a straight leg, I kept looking at Grazziano’s legs to see if she’d managed. First split vote of the series.
