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shallownessI have started watching The Better Sister. It’s doing enough with flashbacks and slowly revealing more details to play with sympathies – this is about a murder taking place in the victim’s second home; that, and the fact it’s a limited series, suggests we’ll get satisfying answers. Part of the set-up is that Jessica Biel’s Chloe and Elizabeth Banks’s Nicky are sisters. (Not the most< convincing casting in that regard.) And that Chloe stepped into what should have been her addict sister’s life, and made what seemed like a success of it if you go by the dresses and jewellery she wears and the size of her apartment. But there are secrets. And a dead body.
There seemed to be a lot of tension between the detectives – I was kind of glad that the less experienced one stood his ground. In the second episode, they really leant into the lady cop being unpleasant.
More flashbacks (including one of Janel Moloney as the sisters’ mother, over a decade ago. Chloe as a child and Ethan – her nephew/stepson as an infant nearly drowned in those flashbacks.) There were hints about the sisters’ parents, about Adam’s job. (Adam being the dead husband.) Chloe seemed to be overly consumed with how annoying her sister was and far too naïve about her stepson/nephew being a suspect, because of compelling evidence on the face of it. Fortunately, Nicky had insisted on getting a lawyer, and she was played by Gloria Reubens and seemed confident.
I’ve also started watching Countdown AKA What Jensen Ackles Did Next (wear a brown leather jacket of which I approve and mumble as a maverick but obnoxious undercover cop hiding a medical secret, while trying to impress a Latina colleague. But there are no supersoldiers or supernatural events.)
If you want lunkheaded action featuring a mismatched, yet attractive law enforcement team, here it is. It has been somewhat tainted by orange, because when I saw shipping containers, I thought of tariffs, and I’m wondering whether their boss is a Fox TV presenter, a former Trump defence lawyer or a conspiracy theorist. But if you ignore that: they’re a federal taskforce investigating the death of an officer (played by Milo Ventimigila) who had a great deal of money from some drugs gang.
Can all these excellent but misfit individuals gel together as a team and bring down The Bad Guys? Especially when the boss keeps making them do things other than their specialty? (Hmm, I wonder.) Mark (Ackles) thinks he’s asked for them because their original departments think they’re expendable. There are more men than women on the team, and one of the women is named Evan, which endlessly puzzles me.
My level of investment in both shows is less than it was in Étoile (which was high enough to cut and paste the accented É from Word) although I'll probably keep watching.
There seemed to be a lot of tension between the detectives – I was kind of glad that the less experienced one stood his ground. In the second episode, they really leant into the lady cop being unpleasant.
More flashbacks (including one of Janel Moloney as the sisters’ mother, over a decade ago. Chloe as a child and Ethan – her nephew/stepson as an infant nearly drowned in those flashbacks.) There were hints about the sisters’ parents, about Adam’s job. (Adam being the dead husband.) Chloe seemed to be overly consumed with how annoying her sister was and far too naïve about her stepson/nephew being a suspect, because of compelling evidence on the face of it. Fortunately, Nicky had insisted on getting a lawyer, and she was played by Gloria Reubens and seemed confident.
I’ve also started watching Countdown AKA What Jensen Ackles Did Next (wear a brown leather jacket of which I approve and mumble as a maverick but obnoxious undercover cop hiding a medical secret, while trying to impress a Latina colleague. But there are no supersoldiers or supernatural events.)
If you want lunkheaded action featuring a mismatched, yet attractive law enforcement team, here it is. It has been somewhat tainted by orange, because when I saw shipping containers, I thought of tariffs, and I’m wondering whether their boss is a Fox TV presenter, a former Trump defence lawyer or a conspiracy theorist. But if you ignore that: they’re a federal taskforce investigating the death of an officer (played by Milo Ventimigila) who had a great deal of money from some drugs gang.
Can all these excellent but misfit individuals gel together as a team and bring down The Bad Guys? Especially when the boss keeps making them do things other than their specialty? (Hmm, I wonder.) Mark (Ackles) thinks he’s asked for them because their original departments think they’re expendable. There are more men than women on the team, and one of the women is named Evan, which endlessly puzzles me.
My level of investment in both shows is less than it was in Étoile (which was high enough to cut and paste the accented É from Word) although I'll probably keep watching.
