The Widow mega post
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shallownessThe Widow ep 3
This continues to be a cracking story. Ariel AKA Mikhail shared his experience of the flight, and although it’s a little convenient that he crossed paths with nearly everyone we know was on the plane, it was also cool. The sight of the explosion on the plane was terrifying. Knowing that he was going to lose his sight and Dominique, in a much better shape than him, was going to die, added something.
Beatrice freaked out and left (possibly the show?)
For the whole episode, the question of how Peter would make Adjida pay for letting her friend go hung heavily.
I loved Max’s forthright wife, and it seemed to suggest that he wasn’t in on Will’s disappearance, though his later appearance to talk to Mikhail was mightily intriguing. Another secret kept from Georgia?
Was Will having an affair? There was definitely something going on, and the political/military angle was brewing…
Georgia didn’t have much time for her cover story. ATHOS (I mean Howard Charles) turned up, and has apparently learned French, which I scarcely remember him speaking on The Musketeers. Also, it’s hard to feel sorry for potential rapists and their friends who leave their guns about after doing some carjacking. So, we learned how far Georgia will go.
Beckinsale is utterly committed to the role, and I have to say I appreciate her crinkled forehead, she’s been a gamine for so long. She looked like Judith’s equal instead of a girl acting opposite a woman.
I wasn’t entirely swept along by the parallel the drew between Georgia and Adjida: all the Loss of Innocence. Georgia, who presumably hasn’t killed anyone before was acting in instinctive self-defence. A child being ordered to assassinate a man in front of his loved ones felt like something else.
Ep 4
More revelations about Georgia, which explained much – her having been a soldier for one thing. Given what we knew of her father and Max, that wasn’t a surprise, as such, but it explained why she’s such a hard nut. (I’d find it more difficult to believe that Will was a soldier).
The other was the reveal of Violet. The use of the baby monitor was effective, indeed, heartbreaking, although I think I snarked later at Will saying they’d got to stick together, because a job on another continent isn’t that. My view of their relationship changed again.
I’d been enjoying Louise just for sheer contrariness (and if she really needed dosh and is a doctor, why not get a job doctoring at home in a well-paid specialty?) but it was convenient that she’d been working with Peter. I’ll allow it, though, because it showed how tough Georgia was. And showed how above and beyond nice Howard Charles’s character was.
The scene between Georgia (phew, her training allowed her to help the soldier quite well) and Adjida obviously had huge resonance for the audience, while they played it relatively straight, give or take plot developments.
But Georgia and Louise seemed to be ignoring the signs of a massacre. (The show earned its disturbing scenes warning).
We ended with the tantalising beginning of Georgia getting to interrogate Peter, after finding out Will had definitely been kept at the mine. She admitted to being monomaniacal about finding out what had happened, with her relative callousness over killing a man (in self-defence, with training kicking in).
Max had known/discovered quite a bit what happened on the flight. Eventually, thanks to Mikhail/Arial, he knew more. I don’t know why he didn’t point out that he could get audio recordings of the suspected major generals and Arial didn’t have to go to the DRC with him. Well, I do, it would be less dramatic.
But we still come back to the point that putting a bomb on a plane is an extreme act, whoever was behind it and for what purposes.
Ep 5
What tale-spinners they be. That first section caused two leaping-out-of-my-chair moments, even if they were bemusing once thought joined reaction. How could the person right next to the bomb survive? Answer: she didn’t. Major-General Killer was feeling guilty – I did suss that his cleaner (or was she the wife Will was rumoured to be involved with) was another apparition. And then Judith got stabbed…by his driver, but not under his boss’s orders???
We then got a long flashback about Judith, and as I’d at first thought ‘Well, that’s a weird and pushy way of introducing yourself’ and then ‘That’s a weird and pushy way of coming on to someone’, I wasn’t too surprised that Judith was defrauded. It did feel like a long walk up a garden path to explain why Judith became crooked – and started working with Major-General Killer and through him Peter, which Georgia had found out about, while Peter’s bid for power was sketched out a bit more.
It’s all about coltan for the phones everyone keeps using to keep the DRC and the UK or various parts of the Congo in touch. Got it.
Although Georgia was very competent – timing her shot so that the vehicle’s sounds covered it and proving via the flesh wound that she was serious, she didn’t get much out of Peter. The hunt for her was very tense until I realised the phone crowing would probably give Peter away. Obviously he didn’t know Kate Beckinsale has been a lot of action movies, either. So, she got his phone, and picked up Adjida. I’m all for rescuing child soldiers, and actually, given that she’s killing people in self-defence on a regular basis, Georgia might be able to offer her understanding.
Max’s exposition to Georgia would have been a bit much if she hadn’t had quite the time in Goma.
The more you think about this, the more it falls apart, but its spell is strong whilst it’s unfolding in front of you.
Ep 6
As Adjida was getting flashbacks, I fretted that she would be killed off for a bit of the episode, but the first explained the directions she’d given to Georgia. And the truth of the other flashback (what she’d seen on the screen) was more important to the viewers than having seen Will (and of course, we knew that he was in Rwanda), explaining Sidney’s alliance with Peter against his boss and why he’d killed Judith.
Georgia and Adjida hung out and bonded and apart from their previous loss of innocence/female with a gun parallels, Adjida, the now motherless girl learned that Georgia had lost her daughter. (For a second I just thought ‘whuh?’ not ‘dream’ when Georgia ‘saw’ Violet, although I liked that it was clearly her subconscious working things out.) In the midst of all that, Georgia made Adjida a big promise, and I wonder if it’ll mean choosing between her and Will for Georgia.
I am a bit amused that they’ve taken over Judith’s house as a base of operations – I know Georgia was her guest and Judith was dodgy but it still seems quite cold.
Meanwhile, we learned what Max’s precautions were – a fake name and a rather light cover story and Mikhail/Ariel ‘staying in the car’ to await what had been recorded on Chekhov’s Dictaphone. Cue Mikhail/Ariel not staying in the car ‘because it’s too hot’ and getting seen. And then, just as we’d had another conversation with Beatrix, who looks like she may be regaining sight, he got hit, but recorded his killer.
Sidney’s crucifix was rather obvious, and his prayer of absolving himself of blame and lobbing it onto his bosses sickening.
I wonder what upset his wife in the kitchen, was it overhearing Sidney talk about Will? His being in Rwanda? She can’t be entirely ignorant of what her husband is up to. Or was it something else (an attacker)?
Sidney was all like ‘oh, you were looking for Will. Why didn’t you say?’ Cue a phone call, with us reassessing all we know and wondering how involved he is or whether he’s involved.
This continues to be a cracking story. Ariel AKA Mikhail shared his experience of the flight, and although it’s a little convenient that he crossed paths with nearly everyone we know was on the plane, it was also cool. The sight of the explosion on the plane was terrifying. Knowing that he was going to lose his sight and Dominique, in a much better shape than him, was going to die, added something.
Beatrice freaked out and left (possibly the show?)
For the whole episode, the question of how Peter would make Adjida pay for letting her friend go hung heavily.
I loved Max’s forthright wife, and it seemed to suggest that he wasn’t in on Will’s disappearance, though his later appearance to talk to Mikhail was mightily intriguing. Another secret kept from Georgia?
Was Will having an affair? There was definitely something going on, and the political/military angle was brewing…
Georgia didn’t have much time for her cover story. ATHOS (I mean Howard Charles) turned up, and has apparently learned French, which I scarcely remember him speaking on The Musketeers. Also, it’s hard to feel sorry for potential rapists and their friends who leave their guns about after doing some carjacking. So, we learned how far Georgia will go.
Beckinsale is utterly committed to the role, and I have to say I appreciate her crinkled forehead, she’s been a gamine for so long. She looked like Judith’s equal instead of a girl acting opposite a woman.
I wasn’t entirely swept along by the parallel the drew between Georgia and Adjida: all the Loss of Innocence. Georgia, who presumably hasn’t killed anyone before was acting in instinctive self-defence. A child being ordered to assassinate a man in front of his loved ones felt like something else.
Ep 4
More revelations about Georgia, which explained much – her having been a soldier for one thing. Given what we knew of her father and Max, that wasn’t a surprise, as such, but it explained why she’s such a hard nut. (I’d find it more difficult to believe that Will was a soldier).
The other was the reveal of Violet. The use of the baby monitor was effective, indeed, heartbreaking, although I think I snarked later at Will saying they’d got to stick together, because a job on another continent isn’t that. My view of their relationship changed again.
I’d been enjoying Louise just for sheer contrariness (and if she really needed dosh and is a doctor, why not get a job doctoring at home in a well-paid specialty?) but it was convenient that she’d been working with Peter. I’ll allow it, though, because it showed how tough Georgia was. And showed how above and beyond nice Howard Charles’s character was.
The scene between Georgia (phew, her training allowed her to help the soldier quite well) and Adjida obviously had huge resonance for the audience, while they played it relatively straight, give or take plot developments.
But Georgia and Louise seemed to be ignoring the signs of a massacre. (The show earned its disturbing scenes warning).
We ended with the tantalising beginning of Georgia getting to interrogate Peter, after finding out Will had definitely been kept at the mine. She admitted to being monomaniacal about finding out what had happened, with her relative callousness over killing a man (in self-defence, with training kicking in).
Max had known/discovered quite a bit what happened on the flight. Eventually, thanks to Mikhail/Arial, he knew more. I don’t know why he didn’t point out that he could get audio recordings of the suspected major generals and Arial didn’t have to go to the DRC with him. Well, I do, it would be less dramatic.
But we still come back to the point that putting a bomb on a plane is an extreme act, whoever was behind it and for what purposes.
Ep 5
What tale-spinners they be. That first section caused two leaping-out-of-my-chair moments, even if they were bemusing once thought joined reaction. How could the person right next to the bomb survive? Answer: she didn’t. Major-General Killer was feeling guilty – I did suss that his cleaner (or was she the wife Will was rumoured to be involved with) was another apparition. And then Judith got stabbed…by his driver, but not under his boss’s orders???
We then got a long flashback about Judith, and as I’d at first thought ‘Well, that’s a weird and pushy way of introducing yourself’ and then ‘That’s a weird and pushy way of coming on to someone’, I wasn’t too surprised that Judith was defrauded. It did feel like a long walk up a garden path to explain why Judith became crooked – and started working with Major-General Killer and through him Peter, which Georgia had found out about, while Peter’s bid for power was sketched out a bit more.
It’s all about coltan for the phones everyone keeps using to keep the DRC and the UK or various parts of the Congo in touch. Got it.
Although Georgia was very competent – timing her shot so that the vehicle’s sounds covered it and proving via the flesh wound that she was serious, she didn’t get much out of Peter. The hunt for her was very tense until I realised the phone crowing would probably give Peter away. Obviously he didn’t know Kate Beckinsale has been a lot of action movies, either. So, she got his phone, and picked up Adjida. I’m all for rescuing child soldiers, and actually, given that she’s killing people in self-defence on a regular basis, Georgia might be able to offer her understanding.
Max’s exposition to Georgia would have been a bit much if she hadn’t had quite the time in Goma.
The more you think about this, the more it falls apart, but its spell is strong whilst it’s unfolding in front of you.
Ep 6
As Adjida was getting flashbacks, I fretted that she would be killed off for a bit of the episode, but the first explained the directions she’d given to Georgia. And the truth of the other flashback (what she’d seen on the screen) was more important to the viewers than having seen Will (and of course, we knew that he was in Rwanda), explaining Sidney’s alliance with Peter against his boss and why he’d killed Judith.
Georgia and Adjida hung out and bonded and apart from their previous loss of innocence/female with a gun parallels, Adjida, the now motherless girl learned that Georgia had lost her daughter. (For a second I just thought ‘whuh?’ not ‘dream’ when Georgia ‘saw’ Violet, although I liked that it was clearly her subconscious working things out.) In the midst of all that, Georgia made Adjida a big promise, and I wonder if it’ll mean choosing between her and Will for Georgia.
I am a bit amused that they’ve taken over Judith’s house as a base of operations – I know Georgia was her guest and Judith was dodgy but it still seems quite cold.
Meanwhile, we learned what Max’s precautions were – a fake name and a rather light cover story and Mikhail/Ariel ‘staying in the car’ to await what had been recorded on Chekhov’s Dictaphone. Cue Mikhail/Ariel not staying in the car ‘because it’s too hot’ and getting seen. And then, just as we’d had another conversation with Beatrix, who looks like she may be regaining sight, he got hit, but recorded his killer.
Sidney’s crucifix was rather obvious, and his prayer of absolving himself of blame and lobbing it onto his bosses sickening.
I wonder what upset his wife in the kitchen, was it overhearing Sidney talk about Will? His being in Rwanda? She can’t be entirely ignorant of what her husband is up to. Or was it something else (an attacker)?
Sidney was all like ‘oh, you were looking for Will. Why didn’t you say?’ Cue a phone call, with us reassessing all we know and wondering how involved he is or whether he’s involved.
