My Saturday TV
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shallownessGotham 5.3 Penguin, Our Hero
Based entirely on the ‘previously’: I’m expecting Jim/Babs of some varitey before the end of the season.
Penguin has basically turned into the Sherriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (with Jim Gordon as Robin Hood). Although their singing was ropey, I’m certainly adding my own praise choir to the wishlist! He also learned someone was setting him up with the gangs.
We saw some Wee!Catwoman! (or should it be Catyoungwoman?) YAY! Born of a nightmare, but whatever.
Maybe they have even higher ambitions than Robin Hood for Jim, ‘founder’ of Haven (it was Lucius) and giver of speeches (but he has yet to produce any loaves of bread). I was amused by how much taller still Mazouz is than Mackenzie.
Will from last episode is prone to nightmares. Jim is prone to making presumptuous promises about how everything will be fine.
I was still YAY! at Selina’s agency in her conversation with Bruce. No, he doesn’t own her and she had a good point about the refugees having info about Jeremiah. I also suspect her of wanting to disembowel Jeremiah more than letting him stand trial. (Like she’s going to get a chance.) But aww at her going on her tippy toes to kiss Bruce. The kids learned that the Dark Zone was pretty nightmarish, though.
This Sherriff of Penguinham stuff is very entertaining. I can’t take the show too seriously because if they really were in dire straits, the Gothamites would have eaten Edward the dog.
Despite the warning, of course the kids went to the Dark Zone. Bruce’s smile at the return of non-depressed Selina was cute and then we had Wee!Battlecoupleness, until Selina went a little OTT with the claws (get used to it, Bruce) and he had to use a protoBatweapon to stop her (get used to it, Selina).
Blah blah gunfight between the GCPD and Penguin’s new minions. Jim rather gave away the fact that his men (and they’re all men) can’t spare the ammo for target practice.
Aww, Bruce, your promise to ‘always’ be on Selina’s side was both adorable and premature. I stand corrected, she wants to rip Jeremiah’s throat out, not his guts. We learned Jeremiah had definitely established himself as a deity, establishing his own church of acolytes with very well-laundered white shirts.
Mr Pen’s last line to Penguin (who had been planning to kill him, surely) and Penguin’s comeuppance was hilarious.
Like Babs said, Harvey should have led with ‘Penguin…’
Selina found herself in Battle Royale, ringmastered by Surely This is Harley Quin, while Bruce sneaked around in the shadows. Our girl couldn’t quite bring herself to pull the trigger and got made. Loved the hissing on ‘hate’ and other nuances to the performance to show that the cat is unleashed. Confirmation that that was Harley. More fighting, with some very cool moves (but you could tell when it was the stunt double). I was amused at her cuffing Bruce, but he had a point about her bleeding.
Penguin getting to be the most popular kid in school was also funny (if unconvincing). Jim delivered speech no. 2 of the episode, and then went outside to have a standoff over ‘Penguie’ with Babs – resolved by an explosion, which is so Gotham. And then I realised everyone in Haven whom they’d just saved had got blown up, and was suddenly glad Lucius and Alfred weren’t around this episode.
So that was bonkers but entertaining.
Killing Eve 2.2
I was a lot more fully into this than I was the first episode, although I regret reading an episode description that gave away that Julian Barratt’s Julian (how weird it must be to play a character sharing your name?) was creepy. I mean, the dolls would have given that away, but still, no spoilers in future.
It felt like the plot moved on for Eve, and eventually Villainelle with her new handler. And after all Eve had correctly said about show-off Villanelle, the last place she’d look for her would be in a Volvo. The episode was bookended by Villanelle in cars, although when she exited out of the boot and shushed the watching child, she was in control.
I loved that she was in Basildon. I flat-out love it when Villanelle (and Eve) are in random bits of Britain, well, England so far. Things went downhill there – e.g. her new clothes making her look homeless – and she picked the wrong guy to feed her cake. But another episode where menstruation paraphanelia played an useful part, as it does in most women’s lives.
Even Villanelle in her weakened, fevered state being vulnerable to a controlling guy was icky. And when she finally broke and threatened to kill him, I was all ‘Are you sure this is the time?’ because he was stronger. But she found a way, I should never have doubted her.
I am a bit confused as to what the new handler and her relationship with her bosses/the Twelve mean, e.g. for the clean-up crew last week. But the episode chided me for not paying enough attention last ep. As I can, I need to go back and locate the apple in the boy-killing scene, to see how Villanelle framed it…for Eve.
I also thought Konstatin was dead. The show recapped how he was dead for us – so I shouldn’t be surprised we were wrong-footed on that. What’s interesting is that this is just after they’ve introduced a new handler who Villanelle is currently less able to manipulate, who has this unassuming vibe, underpinned by steeliness and plays on controlling/strongmen vs. weak young women optics. Which is what you always get with Villanelle.
Eve IS talking openly to her hubby! That’s good, right? She also tried talking openly to Kenny (Kenny for whom I endlessly feel sorry). Whatshername has decided not to get murdered/been written out of the show (although been replaced by another black woman). Toby the young Oxbridge insert your own noun is also part of the new team.
I suspected the children of having killed the millionaire, but no, it turns out there’s a new female assassin. I enjoyed Eve’s unrestrained glee at analysing her and Villanelle – and Eve is, of course, right about Villanelle’s levels of obsession with her, although it just came off as revealing Eve’s obsession with Villanelle in the room. But what struck me was that time that Villanelle pulled off a similar method of killing as the unobtrusive nurse.
Obviously, she doesn’t know that there is a new assassin in play and she has her own nickname, but that’s going to be a fun part for an older actress.
Based entirely on the ‘previously’: I’m expecting Jim/Babs of some varitey before the end of the season.
Penguin has basically turned into the Sherriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (with Jim Gordon as Robin Hood). Although their singing was ropey, I’m certainly adding my own praise choir to the wishlist! He also learned someone was setting him up with the gangs.
We saw some Wee!Catwoman! (or should it be Catyoungwoman?) YAY! Born of a nightmare, but whatever.
Maybe they have even higher ambitions than Robin Hood for Jim, ‘founder’ of Haven (it was Lucius) and giver of speeches (but he has yet to produce any loaves of bread). I was amused by how much taller still Mazouz is than Mackenzie.
Will from last episode is prone to nightmares. Jim is prone to making presumptuous promises about how everything will be fine.
I was still YAY! at Selina’s agency in her conversation with Bruce. No, he doesn’t own her and she had a good point about the refugees having info about Jeremiah. I also suspect her of wanting to disembowel Jeremiah more than letting him stand trial. (Like she’s going to get a chance.) But aww at her going on her tippy toes to kiss Bruce. The kids learned that the Dark Zone was pretty nightmarish, though.
This Sherriff of Penguinham stuff is very entertaining. I can’t take the show too seriously because if they really were in dire straits, the Gothamites would have eaten Edward the dog.
Despite the warning, of course the kids went to the Dark Zone. Bruce’s smile at the return of non-depressed Selina was cute and then we had Wee!Battlecoupleness, until Selina went a little OTT with the claws (get used to it, Bruce) and he had to use a protoBatweapon to stop her (get used to it, Selina).
Blah blah gunfight between the GCPD and Penguin’s new minions. Jim rather gave away the fact that his men (and they’re all men) can’t spare the ammo for target practice.
Aww, Bruce, your promise to ‘always’ be on Selina’s side was both adorable and premature. I stand corrected, she wants to rip Jeremiah’s throat out, not his guts. We learned Jeremiah had definitely established himself as a deity, establishing his own church of acolytes with very well-laundered white shirts.
Mr Pen’s last line to Penguin (who had been planning to kill him, surely) and Penguin’s comeuppance was hilarious.
Like Babs said, Harvey should have led with ‘Penguin…’
Selina found herself in Battle Royale, ringmastered by Surely This is Harley Quin, while Bruce sneaked around in the shadows. Our girl couldn’t quite bring herself to pull the trigger and got made. Loved the hissing on ‘hate’ and other nuances to the performance to show that the cat is unleashed. Confirmation that that was Harley. More fighting, with some very cool moves (but you could tell when it was the stunt double). I was amused at her cuffing Bruce, but he had a point about her bleeding.
Penguin getting to be the most popular kid in school was also funny (if unconvincing). Jim delivered speech no. 2 of the episode, and then went outside to have a standoff over ‘Penguie’ with Babs – resolved by an explosion, which is so Gotham. And then I realised everyone in Haven whom they’d just saved had got blown up, and was suddenly glad Lucius and Alfred weren’t around this episode.
So that was bonkers but entertaining.
Killing Eve 2.2
I was a lot more fully into this than I was the first episode, although I regret reading an episode description that gave away that Julian Barratt’s Julian (how weird it must be to play a character sharing your name?) was creepy. I mean, the dolls would have given that away, but still, no spoilers in future.
It felt like the plot moved on for Eve, and eventually Villainelle with her new handler. And after all Eve had correctly said about show-off Villanelle, the last place she’d look for her would be in a Volvo. The episode was bookended by Villanelle in cars, although when she exited out of the boot and shushed the watching child, she was in control.
I loved that she was in Basildon. I flat-out love it when Villanelle (and Eve) are in random bits of Britain, well, England so far. Things went downhill there – e.g. her new clothes making her look homeless – and she picked the wrong guy to feed her cake. But another episode where menstruation paraphanelia played an useful part, as it does in most women’s lives.
Even Villanelle in her weakened, fevered state being vulnerable to a controlling guy was icky. And when she finally broke and threatened to kill him, I was all ‘Are you sure this is the time?’ because he was stronger. But she found a way, I should never have doubted her.
I am a bit confused as to what the new handler and her relationship with her bosses/the Twelve mean, e.g. for the clean-up crew last week. But the episode chided me for not paying enough attention last ep. As I can, I need to go back and locate the apple in the boy-killing scene, to see how Villanelle framed it…for Eve.
I also thought Konstatin was dead. The show recapped how he was dead for us – so I shouldn’t be surprised we were wrong-footed on that. What’s interesting is that this is just after they’ve introduced a new handler who Villanelle is currently less able to manipulate, who has this unassuming vibe, underpinned by steeliness and plays on controlling/strongmen vs. weak young women optics. Which is what you always get with Villanelle.
Eve IS talking openly to her hubby! That’s good, right? She also tried talking openly to Kenny (Kenny for whom I endlessly feel sorry). Whatshername has decided not to get murdered/been written out of the show (although been replaced by another black woman). Toby the young Oxbridge insert your own noun is also part of the new team.
I suspected the children of having killed the millionaire, but no, it turns out there’s a new female assassin. I enjoyed Eve’s unrestrained glee at analysing her and Villanelle – and Eve is, of course, right about Villanelle’s levels of obsession with her, although it just came off as revealing Eve’s obsession with Villanelle in the room. But what struck me was that time that Villanelle pulled off a similar method of killing as the unobtrusive nurse.
Obviously, she doesn’t know that there is a new assassin in play and she has her own nickname, but that’s going to be a fun part for an older actress.
