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shallownessMotherFatherSon - episode 3
A quieter episode – I even laughed once, as Kathryn pulled out the snacks and watched her son flirt in the swimming pool. I did expect the press conference to go badly, but it didn’t, or for something awful to happen, but we were left waiting for Max to tell Caden the brutal truth, after Carolyn made a strong case for him doing so.
No Max for quite a while as Caden stopped being suicidal after his mother cried at him. Okay. Lots of tears this episode. Granted, his rehabilitation was excellent (I was on the public servant hospital administrator’s side over pushy mum Carolyn about Caden unfairly getting a spot at a military hospital until it became clear Max had bribed her with a donation). Perhaps too excellent = six weeks!? Billy Howle might get awards notice if TV awards follow Oscar rules – but it is good work that he’s doing.
If everyone knows who you are in the hospital, Caden, I really don’t think that your privacy thieving as a newspaper editor is going to be a huge shocking reveal.
The romance with the still nameless patient was sweet, and Max throwing away the buttonhole because it didn’t fit the optics a moment of dramatic heartbreak.
Also the physio was hot.
So, where was Max, running away from his recovering son to the new family he was in the process of creating? Ah, Mexico, trying to repeat his power moves (um, so had he just put the decision of who to back as PM in the UK on hold?) Mexico’s politicians were currently not having any of it (I would love it if the chatty party leader had history with Mrs Max no. 2). She, Sofia, shared that her husband was a controlling enigma. Just the type you want to have a child with.
And Max apparently had an epiphany about how he’d seen his son wrong (it doesn’t quite jibe with what we saw of their past dynamic, but maybe he believed it) and why his round son had been so unhappy trying to fit into a square.
We could pretend to care about the compromised journalist (also Max?)’s investigation. I hope his lie detector wife has a decent career of her own. Blah blah media empire fabricating evidence in a criminal case for a scoop, with an inappropriately close relationship to victims, blah blah police corruption.
Lots more nature in this episode with the smoking in the forest, the flowers and the gardening – even all the water. I don’t feel that the pastoral idyll will last seeing as this episode also featured skeletons.
A quieter episode – I even laughed once, as Kathryn pulled out the snacks and watched her son flirt in the swimming pool. I did expect the press conference to go badly, but it didn’t, or for something awful to happen, but we were left waiting for Max to tell Caden the brutal truth, after Carolyn made a strong case for him doing so.
No Max for quite a while as Caden stopped being suicidal after his mother cried at him. Okay. Lots of tears this episode. Granted, his rehabilitation was excellent (I was on the public servant hospital administrator’s side over pushy mum Carolyn about Caden unfairly getting a spot at a military hospital until it became clear Max had bribed her with a donation). Perhaps too excellent = six weeks!? Billy Howle might get awards notice if TV awards follow Oscar rules – but it is good work that he’s doing.
If everyone knows who you are in the hospital, Caden, I really don’t think that your privacy thieving as a newspaper editor is going to be a huge shocking reveal.
The romance with the still nameless patient was sweet, and Max throwing away the buttonhole because it didn’t fit the optics a moment of dramatic heartbreak.
Also the physio was hot.
So, where was Max, running away from his recovering son to the new family he was in the process of creating? Ah, Mexico, trying to repeat his power moves (um, so had he just put the decision of who to back as PM in the UK on hold?) Mexico’s politicians were currently not having any of it (I would love it if the chatty party leader had history with Mrs Max no. 2). She, Sofia, shared that her husband was a controlling enigma. Just the type you want to have a child with.
And Max apparently had an epiphany about how he’d seen his son wrong (it doesn’t quite jibe with what we saw of their past dynamic, but maybe he believed it) and why his round son had been so unhappy trying to fit into a square.
We could pretend to care about the compromised journalist (also Max?)’s investigation. I hope his lie detector wife has a decent career of her own. Blah blah media empire fabricating evidence in a criminal case for a scoop, with an inappropriately close relationship to victims, blah blah police corruption.
Lots more nature in this episode with the smoking in the forest, the flowers and the gardening – even all the water. I don’t feel that the pastoral idyll will last seeing as this episode also featured skeletons.
