Monday TV run-down
The Black Donnellys
I woke up early this morning and started thinking about last night's episode. I can't believe how much it's invaded my brain. This show kicks you in the gut and leaves you with this cold, sinking stone deep belly feeling. It's dark and uncomfortable, but there's some kind of humanity there too that makes you want to keep watching.
Tommy/Jenny. Hello, chemistry. Compare them to Peter/Simone or Isaac/Simone on Heroes. Yeah. Sorry Simone. (Aside: Olivia Wilde and Summer Glau could be sisters. Y/N? I don't know. They both have that gorgeous wide-eyed, pale skin, graceful, with dark hair thing going on.)
Anyway, last week I was mildly annoyed with Jenny for admitting her true feelings to Tommy and then going on about how she's a married woman and nothing is ever going to happen between them, etc. "What if he dies and he never knows that I loved him?" I mean, I understand that it was just an impulsive admission given under emotional circumstances, but what it did was it made her feel (at least a little bit) better (to put her true feelings out on the table) and made him feel like crap, or, at the very least, left him in an extreme state of WTF? As in, "Thanks! WTF do I do with that?" This week, my heart was breaking for her, because she loves Tommy and wants him (in spite of the ring on her finger *cough*), but, yes, she's married, and, perhaps more importantly in my opinion, she sees where the road he is travelling down ends and she can't bear to follow. (That scene in which she saw the blood on the bar's basement steps, and then went down to clean it up? Wow. Just...yeah. Wow.) Thing is, unless she cuts off all ties with him and moves out of town she's going to watch him go down that way just the same, and I imagine it'll hurt just as much. You can't simply turn off your feelings for somebody.
Also, is it possible that one of the mobs might go after Jenny to get to Tommy if they suspect he knows something/is somehow involved, or do we think there is something in mob rules about not involving women and/or children in disputes? Of course, the thugs had no problem beating on Sean's girlfriend, but that was only after she came back to try to defend Sean. Hmm. Where are all the experts on mob rules when you need them to answer your important TV questions?
Tommy & Kevin. Another big wow to that scene in the warehouse(?), with the guys stripped almost naked and Tommy chopping up Louie Downtown while Kevin pukes in the background. Jesus Christ. Powerful and all sorts of unsettling. [Jonathan Tucker is so fine, but I really gotta say: regardless of the devastating physique - (No, seriously, were you looking? I just about fell off the couch.), I prefer him not covered in blood.]
Etc.
(1) I don't know how I feel about Joey Ice Cream as narrator. It does seem unlikely that the authorities would allow him to be so whimsical with his story-telling. It does sort of make me chuckle, however, when he just keeps randomly turning up. "What's Joey Ice Cream doin' here?"
(2) In a show this heavy, humour is important. "Why's everybody using sarcasm today?"
(3) I love Mama Donnelly. She's tough, and she loves her boys unconditionally. When she saw Kevin's bloody sleeve and then proceeded to tuck it in so no one else could see it? Wow. I'm saying that a lot today. Any road, she and Mama Petrelli should get together for coffee.
(4) The Traveling Wilburys' "Handle With Care". You somehow work anything by (in part or whole) a former Beatle into your show's soundtrack, and I am yours forever. Most likely.
24
They killed Assad! Just like that, no dramatic death or final words or anything! And now he's going to be framed for Palmer's attempted assassination. What a bunch of crap. Did he not basically throw himself toward the President when he realized there was a bomb at the podium? The way they played that scene, I got the impression that Assad basically saved Wayne Palmer's life. The person they rolled out of the way to get to the President - was that not Assad?
ARGLEBARGE. This is really bothering me.
And why did they have to go and re-use the "Someone on the inside stages a coup and everything goes to all hell" plot twist again? Couldn't they have left that out this season and then resurrected it maybe on day seven?
At least Karen is alive, and she's going back to help sort things out. Gooo Karen!
I'm also really glad that Tom Lennox was never on board with (not suspicious or nervous-looking at all!) Reed and Carson's(?) plan, even though we were led to believe he might have been at first. I maintain my position that Reed is desperately in love with Tom Lennox, and Lennox is lucky for that, or Carson would have killed him by now.
I still love Prison Break, but it sure is dragging. They should have decided to end it this season. Or, they could have had it run for two and a half seasons, and the half season in the fall would be spent simply tying up loose ends. BBQ & margarita parties by the ocean. Reminiscing. Hey, remember that time we were stuck in a car for hours with that morally ambivalent guy who wanted to help us take the President down? Kellerman. Yeah. That guy was an asshole.
What? I would totally tune in.