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shallownessGrieved to hear that Anthony Head has passed away. First was aware of him from the Gold Blend ads, then of course he WAS Rupert Giles, wry Watcher with light and shade, and I was always glad to see him whenever he turned up in other work.
Film Club - 1.2
I suppose you differentiate these episodes by the films the characters watch. This episode, it was The Wizard Of Oz, and Noa was in Bristol for the day for an awkward meet and great at his new company. Evie was putting a lot of effort in, doing up the garden, and a rainbow she’d ordered had gone to her flat. So, she was asked to come and get it herself, but this led to a fantasy sequence of the wind blowing as soon as she left the house and a tornado in the distance, so she asked sister Izzy to go in her stead. Izzy went, because for all her attitude (and I don’t think that getting annoyed when your adult sister doesn’t knock before entering your bedroom is unreasonable), she clearly loves Evie. And her mum, who she set up on a friend date with someone who was really Izzy’s friend.
I don’t quite get mother Suze and all her anxious energy. We got some backstory about her ex-husband, although it wasn’t entirely clear why he was an animal.
We also got a flashback to a previous meeting of the film club seven years ago, with more people attending. Evie turned out to have strong feelings against the movie, thinking that the ending was sad, and not being able to disassociate the abuse of Judy Garland to make it from the product. For which I have some sympathy, although it was clear from everyone’s responses in the present that she’d repeated this rant many times since seven years ago. That Film Club also featured Noa introducing a girlfriend, which broke up the Evie-Noa dynamic.
They were going to rewatch it now because it was Noa’s favourite film, before he left for Brizzle. He and Evie were in touch on the phone, with him insisting they didn’t start without him. ‘They’ were bigger in number than the previous episode, with a new member, who was an unexpected killjoy, and a bitchy old friend, who assumed this would be the end of the club because Noa was leaving. She and the friend who’d come in the previous episode were more than hinting that they’d moved on with their lives from seven years ago, while it was clear that Evie had regressed because of the incident.
Also, she was the one who had a boyfriend (although is it me, isn’t he actually more simpatico with Suz?), who turned up for the film club and was useless at the game section. Noa was caught up in the horror that is the rail replacement bus service with the added aggro of his phone running out of charge, and so turned up late. And then handed his phone over to Evie to charge, so she saw a message from someone he’d met at Bristol referring to the film club as his obligation, which is how he’d put it, although that had really seemed like him bumbling for words, and we’d seen his efforts to get there, and how happy he was once he’d got there and was sitting next to Evie. Amiee-Lou Wood’s eyes were eloquent about Evie’s devastation at the idea of Noa thinking that their film club (and her) was an obligation, though.
The Capture - 3.2
More ambiguous looks and ambiguous dialogue, mainly between Carey and her new boss Noah Pierson. Her delayed reaction to realising that the new commander was the shooter was to treat him as an intruder, arguing to the bigwigs that he hadn’t been properly introduced and the place was under heightened threat and he needed further vetting. (I wanted them to test his hands for gunshot residue.) He had a compulsive habit of staring into all the cameras dotted around the building. He didn’t disclose a device that he claimed was to help his heart. His phone had malware on it. Carey’s team checked his alibi for the shooting via CCTV, claiming a Veritas camera showed he was there. She seemed to think that wasn’t working properly.
BBC News in this world had Corrected footage, but was holding out on airing it until closer to the end of the episode. Carey’s boss was angry about her treatment of the new commander, although she bought more time, and got an interview with Noah, where he didn’t break and seemed to think that her accusing him of shooting Isaac Turner was a prank.
She turned to Garland, although she gave her access to her phone for too many seconds. Garland’s analysis, based on looking at a ‘smudge’ (photo to you and me) and live footage was that Noah was Eton and Cambridge educated and MI6 (because the security services’ diversity recruitment hadn’t kicked in when he was brought on?) At first, she theorised that Carey was having a psychological breakdown, and this was transference, Carey argued that she wasn’t likely to have made up Noah when she hadn’t seen him before. By the end of their encounter, Garland seemed more open to what Carey was saying, but wasn’t much help.
Worst of all, Carey’s own team didn’t believe her, although they’d backed her up to a point, raising some discrepancies in what Carey was saying. The more junior officer had been sent to the home of the Corrected suspect, and did a thorough job in collecting all the electronic devices, including stealing a phone from a child (who looked like she was primary school age.) Rachel had a bit of a weep when talking to her stepsister, who was looking at stuff on the web claiming that Isaac was still alive. As Garland had said, Carey had been through two traumas: watching Isaac, who she knew, get killed in front of her, and losing her job (to Isaac’s killer.) Given that, fighting for proof and belief was hard.
The bigwigs got their way, Pierson was in post. He seemed willing to keep Carey on as his deputy and give her operational lead. He ‘found out’ that she was the eyewitness he’d heard about. Kadjida Khan gave Carey the heads up that they’d be naming the Corrected suspect on air. Carey was sent out to read a statement, which she did, but then added her own extra bit, to make it clear that they weren’t just focusing on the Corrected suspect.
Oh, and Garland got in touch with Hart (Rachel’s ex/ex-boss), to have a chat about how he’d released the Corrected suspect that time in the past. She’d also been looking up Noah Pierson, having nabbed a copy of his photo off Carey’s phone.
Thanks to the kid’s phone, the police had a location for the Correction suspect. There was another tense scene of Pierson and Carey in the car, where he pretended to be paying back her ‘prank’ by saying he’d reported her to HR for bullying and sexual harassment (breaking in on him shirtless revealing his quasi-heart thing, along with some armed officers). Lots of barely sub subtext, until Carey noted that the armed officers hadn’t followed them. Pierson said she’d put the co-ordinates in, she accused him of tampering with them. He was eager to go in with no back-up, she didn’t follow. He went in, got tasered (if he really did have a dicky heart, that was dangerous) and there were two people there.
Big reveal: they were Frank and Rachel, so she’d called in the favour, while all we’d seen on screen this episode was her getting cornered, fighty, but cornered.
I haven’t seen Kilian Scott, who plays Pierson, in much before (oh, ha, he plays Eric Wardle in Strike), but he was pretty good at matching Grainger’s energy, which was necessary as Carey’s antagonist, in an unusual female-male dynamic. (Let’s be real, it’s usually male-male.)
Film Club - 1.2
I suppose you differentiate these episodes by the films the characters watch. This episode, it was The Wizard Of Oz, and Noa was in Bristol for the day for an awkward meet and great at his new company. Evie was putting a lot of effort in, doing up the garden, and a rainbow she’d ordered had gone to her flat. So, she was asked to come and get it herself, but this led to a fantasy sequence of the wind blowing as soon as she left the house and a tornado in the distance, so she asked sister Izzy to go in her stead. Izzy went, because for all her attitude (and I don’t think that getting annoyed when your adult sister doesn’t knock before entering your bedroom is unreasonable), she clearly loves Evie. And her mum, who she set up on a friend date with someone who was really Izzy’s friend.
I don’t quite get mother Suze and all her anxious energy. We got some backstory about her ex-husband, although it wasn’t entirely clear why he was an animal.
We also got a flashback to a previous meeting of the film club seven years ago, with more people attending. Evie turned out to have strong feelings against the movie, thinking that the ending was sad, and not being able to disassociate the abuse of Judy Garland to make it from the product. For which I have some sympathy, although it was clear from everyone’s responses in the present that she’d repeated this rant many times since seven years ago. That Film Club also featured Noa introducing a girlfriend, which broke up the Evie-Noa dynamic.
They were going to rewatch it now because it was Noa’s favourite film, before he left for Brizzle. He and Evie were in touch on the phone, with him insisting they didn’t start without him. ‘They’ were bigger in number than the previous episode, with a new member, who was an unexpected killjoy, and a bitchy old friend, who assumed this would be the end of the club because Noa was leaving. She and the friend who’d come in the previous episode were more than hinting that they’d moved on with their lives from seven years ago, while it was clear that Evie had regressed because of the incident.
Also, she was the one who had a boyfriend (although is it me, isn’t he actually more simpatico with Suz?), who turned up for the film club and was useless at the game section. Noa was caught up in the horror that is the rail replacement bus service with the added aggro of his phone running out of charge, and so turned up late. And then handed his phone over to Evie to charge, so she saw a message from someone he’d met at Bristol referring to the film club as his obligation, which is how he’d put it, although that had really seemed like him bumbling for words, and we’d seen his efforts to get there, and how happy he was once he’d got there and was sitting next to Evie. Amiee-Lou Wood’s eyes were eloquent about Evie’s devastation at the idea of Noa thinking that their film club (and her) was an obligation, though.
The Capture - 3.2
More ambiguous looks and ambiguous dialogue, mainly between Carey and her new boss Noah Pierson. Her delayed reaction to realising that the new commander was the shooter was to treat him as an intruder, arguing to the bigwigs that he hadn’t been properly introduced and the place was under heightened threat and he needed further vetting. (I wanted them to test his hands for gunshot residue.) He had a compulsive habit of staring into all the cameras dotted around the building. He didn’t disclose a device that he claimed was to help his heart. His phone had malware on it. Carey’s team checked his alibi for the shooting via CCTV, claiming a Veritas camera showed he was there. She seemed to think that wasn’t working properly.
BBC News in this world had Corrected footage, but was holding out on airing it until closer to the end of the episode. Carey’s boss was angry about her treatment of the new commander, although she bought more time, and got an interview with Noah, where he didn’t break and seemed to think that her accusing him of shooting Isaac Turner was a prank.
She turned to Garland, although she gave her access to her phone for too many seconds. Garland’s analysis, based on looking at a ‘smudge’ (photo to you and me) and live footage was that Noah was Eton and Cambridge educated and MI6 (because the security services’ diversity recruitment hadn’t kicked in when he was brought on?) At first, she theorised that Carey was having a psychological breakdown, and this was transference, Carey argued that she wasn’t likely to have made up Noah when she hadn’t seen him before. By the end of their encounter, Garland seemed more open to what Carey was saying, but wasn’t much help.
Worst of all, Carey’s own team didn’t believe her, although they’d backed her up to a point, raising some discrepancies in what Carey was saying. The more junior officer had been sent to the home of the Corrected suspect, and did a thorough job in collecting all the electronic devices, including stealing a phone from a child (who looked like she was primary school age.) Rachel had a bit of a weep when talking to her stepsister, who was looking at stuff on the web claiming that Isaac was still alive. As Garland had said, Carey had been through two traumas: watching Isaac, who she knew, get killed in front of her, and losing her job (to Isaac’s killer.) Given that, fighting for proof and belief was hard.
The bigwigs got their way, Pierson was in post. He seemed willing to keep Carey on as his deputy and give her operational lead. He ‘found out’ that she was the eyewitness he’d heard about. Kadjida Khan gave Carey the heads up that they’d be naming the Corrected suspect on air. Carey was sent out to read a statement, which she did, but then added her own extra bit, to make it clear that they weren’t just focusing on the Corrected suspect.
Oh, and Garland got in touch with Hart (Rachel’s ex/ex-boss), to have a chat about how he’d released the Corrected suspect that time in the past. She’d also been looking up Noah Pierson, having nabbed a copy of his photo off Carey’s phone.
Thanks to the kid’s phone, the police had a location for the Correction suspect. There was another tense scene of Pierson and Carey in the car, where he pretended to be paying back her ‘prank’ by saying he’d reported her to HR for bullying and sexual harassment (breaking in on him shirtless revealing his quasi-heart thing, along with some armed officers). Lots of barely sub subtext, until Carey noted that the armed officers hadn’t followed them. Pierson said she’d put the co-ordinates in, she accused him of tampering with them. He was eager to go in with no back-up, she didn’t follow. He went in, got tasered (if he really did have a dicky heart, that was dangerous) and there were two people there.
Big reveal: they were Frank and Rachel, so she’d called in the favour, while all we’d seen on screen this episode was her getting cornered, fighty, but cornered.
I haven’t seen Kilian Scott, who plays Pierson, in much before (oh, ha, he plays Eric Wardle in Strike), but he was pretty good at matching Grainger’s energy, which was necessary as Carey’s antagonist, in an unusual female-male dynamic. (Let’s be real, it’s usually male-male.)
