My Thursday TV
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shallownessGotham 5.2 Trespassers
Heh, Harvey and The Mainland tried to stop Jim from leading the cute kids’ rescue charge. Exercise in futility. When has he ever stepped back and not gone in himself? At least he took some back-up, which meant asking the scream of rage that is Babs (Tabby was your best friend? Uh-huh) for a favour.
For some reason, they dragged out the ‘reveal’ that the witch was Ivy. Like Bruce, I’m sure, everyone deduced this after seeing the first dead body, and so had time to wonder why the chap he was talking to was English.
Harvey was very funny in his outrage about being shot at by an arrow. Good to know that dwindling supplies does not mean Gotham’s gangs are stinting on the costumes and make-up.
Something similar could be said about the crispness of Jim’s white shirt.
We saw the Soothsayers and their Dickensian child slavery deal. If they saw the future, why didn’t they see Jim and the cops coming is the obvious question. A bit of a Western stand-off and Jim saved most of the kids, but was then trapped in ‘the Dead Zone’ with leader Gabriel, the only teenager in the village and two moppets. Of course. Harvey recovered well from the cattle prod.
We learned the Park is going all woo-woo and protective of Ivy. Well, that was Ivy’s story. Interesting that Bruce didn’t divulge that his friend was Selina to her at this point. All I want from Ivy mark 3-Bruce interaction is that it isn’t creepy because of her aging up (and the whole witch business would arguably have been more effective with original age Ivy).
Inevitably Ed or the Riddler (daytime version) turned up, where he tortured a guy without having washed his hands after going to the toilet. Men! And so he started discovering more about his nocturnal activities.
Creepy hotel was creepy.
Aaand they went for creepy with the throat caressing from Ivy. ‘Murderess’ is bad enough, why did you have to fall in with the whole gendered ‘witch’ label, Bruce? Especially with the hotel ‘ghost’ and her creepy ‘mother’ fixation. Granted, the Soothsayers were mainly male, but…
Anyway, Bruce, Jim and Harvey seem equally gullible, and the little boy was a nod to how well Martine worked last season.
The recently deceased Eddler may have started a gang war (although surely that’s not that impressive these days)…inadvertently.
Jim might have wanted to lie about how many bullets he had left, as two gangs quarrelled over him. Enter…Barbara to save the day in a magnificent coat. She can’t really think Jim will help kill Penguin, right? But I was grateful for her snark as Jim was thanked (for Lucius’s hard work) in the sunlight.
Meanwhile, Bruce grudgingly let a (still suicidal) Selina make the choice about the seed. Nice story about her and Ivy (would have preferred an anecdote from that time they lived with Babs, but heigh ho) was followed by the inevitable fit, medical head shaking at what was going on, ‘It’s a miracle’ from Bruce, after trying to steal back Selina’s agency forthwith, and CAT’S EYES.
You’d better watch out, Jeremiah.
I know this is meant to lead to a darker (more villainous) Selina but the more stuff she gets to do that’s potentially cool, the better.
(I am shocked this ep first aired in January 2019, and not 31 October, it was that horror tinged.)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine 6.10
I was more amused by the B-plot as a whole than the A-plot about Jake and Charles’s friendship and Nikolaj’s birth father turning up (although they ended up handling adoptive father feelings sensitively. Well, relatively speaking, after all the absurdity that had come before.) But what Holt and Santiago turned into over Yi and his flies was much funnier, with the OTT laughs, the behind-the-back fist bump, not to mention Rosa’s reaction to their sycophancy. She deserved her win. And then there was all that Jeffords did to his face!
Heh, Harvey and The Mainland tried to stop Jim from leading the cute kids’ rescue charge. Exercise in futility. When has he ever stepped back and not gone in himself? At least he took some back-up, which meant asking the scream of rage that is Babs (Tabby was your best friend? Uh-huh) for a favour.
For some reason, they dragged out the ‘reveal’ that the witch was Ivy. Like Bruce, I’m sure, everyone deduced this after seeing the first dead body, and so had time to wonder why the chap he was talking to was English.
Harvey was very funny in his outrage about being shot at by an arrow. Good to know that dwindling supplies does not mean Gotham’s gangs are stinting on the costumes and make-up.
Something similar could be said about the crispness of Jim’s white shirt.
We saw the Soothsayers and their Dickensian child slavery deal. If they saw the future, why didn’t they see Jim and the cops coming is the obvious question. A bit of a Western stand-off and Jim saved most of the kids, but was then trapped in ‘the Dead Zone’ with leader Gabriel, the only teenager in the village and two moppets. Of course. Harvey recovered well from the cattle prod.
We learned the Park is going all woo-woo and protective of Ivy. Well, that was Ivy’s story. Interesting that Bruce didn’t divulge that his friend was Selina to her at this point. All I want from Ivy mark 3-Bruce interaction is that it isn’t creepy because of her aging up (and the whole witch business would arguably have been more effective with original age Ivy).
Inevitably Ed or the Riddler (daytime version) turned up, where he tortured a guy without having washed his hands after going to the toilet. Men! And so he started discovering more about his nocturnal activities.
Creepy hotel was creepy.
Aaand they went for creepy with the throat caressing from Ivy. ‘Murderess’ is bad enough, why did you have to fall in with the whole gendered ‘witch’ label, Bruce? Especially with the hotel ‘ghost’ and her creepy ‘mother’ fixation. Granted, the Soothsayers were mainly male, but…
Anyway, Bruce, Jim and Harvey seem equally gullible, and the little boy was a nod to how well Martine worked last season.
The recently deceased Eddler may have started a gang war (although surely that’s not that impressive these days)…inadvertently.
Jim might have wanted to lie about how many bullets he had left, as two gangs quarrelled over him. Enter…Barbara to save the day in a magnificent coat. She can’t really think Jim will help kill Penguin, right? But I was grateful for her snark as Jim was thanked (for Lucius’s hard work) in the sunlight.
Meanwhile, Bruce grudgingly let a (still suicidal) Selina make the choice about the seed. Nice story about her and Ivy (would have preferred an anecdote from that time they lived with Babs, but heigh ho) was followed by the inevitable fit, medical head shaking at what was going on, ‘It’s a miracle’ from Bruce, after trying to steal back Selina’s agency forthwith, and CAT’S EYES.
You’d better watch out, Jeremiah.
I know this is meant to lead to a darker (more villainous) Selina but the more stuff she gets to do that’s potentially cool, the better.
(I am shocked this ep first aired in January 2019, and not 31 October, it was that horror tinged.)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine 6.10
I was more amused by the B-plot as a whole than the A-plot about Jake and Charles’s friendship and Nikolaj’s birth father turning up (although they ended up handling adoptive father feelings sensitively. Well, relatively speaking, after all the absurdity that had come before.) But what Holt and Santiago turned into over Yi and his flies was much funnier, with the OTT laughs, the behind-the-back fist bump, not to mention Rosa’s reaction to their sycophancy. She deserved her win. And then there was all that Jeffords did to his face!
