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shallowness) wrote2019-06-06 06:14 pm
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Pros and Amateurs
Berlin Station 2.5 Right of Way
The big day with everyone in play. Hector teased Danny for his white knight tendencies RE Lena, but it seemed that her misreading of Hector got to him. Valerie seemed okay with whatever she and the CIA would create in Iosef once they’d got rid of Gerhardt. April is still little more than The Overeager and Green Rookie with an extra stake in fighting the far right. Uh-oh, there were to be two targets and something was definitely up with the money.
And someone had tipped Gerhardt off (inconclusive at this point as to whether it was Iosef). Maybe if BB had given different orders in split-second calls, things might have gone differently. However, Hector proved he is loyal…to Danny and his own self-interest. I don’t think he minded knocking out the German officer.
Robert was good about trusting in Danny, and it maybe helped Esther trust him that she wanted Danny to be fine. Valerie got nowhere, the Lena argument didn’t have enough time to work on Otto (excellent close-ups of Armitage and Krechman – leading to the brilliant helicopter shot as Danny walked away from the van.) During the ensuing ad break, I started to wonder if the Ambassador had tipped Gerhardt off.
Turns out I was right. Lots of good, rueful fall-out scenes in the last section, between Robert and BB, Valerie and Iosef, and Danny and Hector. Like Stephen, we thought of Norway’s chef de station as he proposed a road trip for Robert. And BB declared open warfare on Ambassador Unrepentant Smugface.
The image of Hector in his brown leather jacket and the brown hotel walls was very striking. This was a visually strong episode. It was lean and thrilling with quite some time for consequences. I wasn’t entirely on board with the theme everything coming down to loyalty because everyone’s compromised – I mean, Lena might be relatively innocent, but her father was ultimately shot because he was in a van full of things that go boom outside a high-profile target.
Summer of Rockets – Episode 3
Samuel’s idea of spying mostly came off as social gaucheness, fortunately. The scene where Mrs Shaw thought it was Anthony on the phone and broke down was powerful and there was even better to come from Keeley Hawes as the mother/chaperone found her inner Juliet Montague, and threatened debs and pervs WITH COMPMAT.
But she was at her least sympathetic talking to Sasha, because she was disingenuous there. Consciously or not, she wanted him to look for clues. (The Spooks connection between Hawes and Firth only occurred to me after the episode, I was too busy marvelling at what a good job they’d done casting Sasha with his serious face that he’s in the process of growing into.)
Hannah (or is it Anna given the pronunciation?) found out that Nicholas was a renaissance man and leaving for Florence – I wonder if she’s been a factor in driving him to take writing seriously. Her other friendship made her seem a bit more flighty and more of an user – Esther was facing redundancy for a bit there, and I would imagine it would be even more difficult for deaf women to get jobs in those days. But cue an anonymous letter dishing the dirt, her mother trying to be reasonable and a stressed Petrukyn getting shouty. Hannah said her piece about the season being what they, specifically her father, wanted for her – and the entitled piece of work at the ball was much less appealing than the boy she met at Esther’s house. Esther’s ‘go for it’ attitude was seen to apply more widely to her own life choices, which must have made Hannah think, but she went back home. At least she had an ulterior motive for attending the ball too.
The Queen Charlotte ball was indeed weird. And the anti-Semitism from one of the posh bitchy types gross.
We saw a little of how Anthony’s disappearance had affected his father. Shaw is as friendly to Samuel as his wife is, and as haunted by memories of his son. For a second I thought he’d accidentally killed Anthony while having an episode/drunk driving, but it appears not.
Samuel was blackmailed into spying some more, and hardly subtle about it. Lord Wallsingham continued to make barbed comments, until he turned up at the factory with a whammy of a suggestion. I’d thought the military site was up to something secretive, and while they’d set up Samuel talking to animals in Russian, the dog understanding it falls apart a bit when you think about it, because Samuel’s handlers might be Russian agents, but I don’t think they’re Russians, per se.
Anyway, lots of gripping bits.
The big day with everyone in play. Hector teased Danny for his white knight tendencies RE Lena, but it seemed that her misreading of Hector got to him. Valerie seemed okay with whatever she and the CIA would create in Iosef once they’d got rid of Gerhardt. April is still little more than The Overeager and Green Rookie with an extra stake in fighting the far right. Uh-oh, there were to be two targets and something was definitely up with the money.
And someone had tipped Gerhardt off (inconclusive at this point as to whether it was Iosef). Maybe if BB had given different orders in split-second calls, things might have gone differently. However, Hector proved he is loyal…to Danny and his own self-interest. I don’t think he minded knocking out the German officer.
Robert was good about trusting in Danny, and it maybe helped Esther trust him that she wanted Danny to be fine. Valerie got nowhere, the Lena argument didn’t have enough time to work on Otto (excellent close-ups of Armitage and Krechman – leading to the brilliant helicopter shot as Danny walked away from the van.) During the ensuing ad break, I started to wonder if the Ambassador had tipped Gerhardt off.
Turns out I was right. Lots of good, rueful fall-out scenes in the last section, between Robert and BB, Valerie and Iosef, and Danny and Hector. Like Stephen, we thought of Norway’s chef de station as he proposed a road trip for Robert. And BB declared open warfare on Ambassador Unrepentant Smugface.
The image of Hector in his brown leather jacket and the brown hotel walls was very striking. This was a visually strong episode. It was lean and thrilling with quite some time for consequences. I wasn’t entirely on board with the theme everything coming down to loyalty because everyone’s compromised – I mean, Lena might be relatively innocent, but her father was ultimately shot because he was in a van full of things that go boom outside a high-profile target.
Summer of Rockets – Episode 3
Samuel’s idea of spying mostly came off as social gaucheness, fortunately. The scene where Mrs Shaw thought it was Anthony on the phone and broke down was powerful and there was even better to come from Keeley Hawes as the mother/chaperone found her inner Juliet Montague, and threatened debs and pervs WITH COMPMAT.
But she was at her least sympathetic talking to Sasha, because she was disingenuous there. Consciously or not, she wanted him to look for clues. (The Spooks connection between Hawes and Firth only occurred to me after the episode, I was too busy marvelling at what a good job they’d done casting Sasha with his serious face that he’s in the process of growing into.)
Hannah (or is it Anna given the pronunciation?) found out that Nicholas was a renaissance man and leaving for Florence – I wonder if she’s been a factor in driving him to take writing seriously. Her other friendship made her seem a bit more flighty and more of an user – Esther was facing redundancy for a bit there, and I would imagine it would be even more difficult for deaf women to get jobs in those days. But cue an anonymous letter dishing the dirt, her mother trying to be reasonable and a stressed Petrukyn getting shouty. Hannah said her piece about the season being what they, specifically her father, wanted for her – and the entitled piece of work at the ball was much less appealing than the boy she met at Esther’s house. Esther’s ‘go for it’ attitude was seen to apply more widely to her own life choices, which must have made Hannah think, but she went back home. At least she had an ulterior motive for attending the ball too.
The Queen Charlotte ball was indeed weird. And the anti-Semitism from one of the posh bitchy types gross.
We saw a little of how Anthony’s disappearance had affected his father. Shaw is as friendly to Samuel as his wife is, and as haunted by memories of his son. For a second I thought he’d accidentally killed Anthony while having an episode/drunk driving, but it appears not.
Samuel was blackmailed into spying some more, and hardly subtle about it. Lord Wallsingham continued to make barbed comments, until he turned up at the factory with a whammy of a suggestion. I’d thought the military site was up to something secretive, and while they’d set up Samuel talking to animals in Russian, the dog understanding it falls apart a bit when you think about it, because Samuel’s handlers might be Russian agents, but I don’t think they’re Russians, per se.
Anyway, lots of gripping bits.
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