you've never let me down
Blindspot 1.8
Kurt spent most of the episode being offish with Mayfair, riding hard on his high horse, meaning that Jane could sneak in and offer some advice on forgiveness. Both leads play the vulnerability in such tough characters well. I found Jane’s frame of reference being just the team extremely touching. Not only did Kurt manage to put her advice in play with Mayfair (because we’d seen from flashbacks why she felt really, really bad about Daylight, about which I just feel tired, because it’s ripped from the headlines) but with his father. I was pleasantly surprised by that, although I’d clocked that his disappointment with Mayfair qua mentor stemmed from his parental figure issues.
Meanwhile, apart from more Mayfair, we had more Tasha, as she and Jane hung out a bit - a training session here, a girls’ night there, and Jane was nice about Tasha having lost a partner in the past and being invested in the NYPD. For once, I felt Reed’s contrary POV was fair, and they could have done more with the tension over white police officers shooting unarmed black men, but it was all a smokescreen for corruption/blackmail, which fits into the bigger narrative. But anyway, the growing relationship between Tasha and Jane made for a greater punch when the Obnoxious and Oily CIA Deputy, who’d featured in the flashbacks, met up to remind her that he owned her.
A few interesting tit-bits, like the widow having some self-defence skills, David not being entirely written out of the story, the female cop being a little less into killing someone who was innocent than her male partner. I suspected the captain before them, mainly because he’d had the most lines. I suppose you can put their having lines at the meeting down to their being worried, rightly, that the feds would find out about their blackmail scam, rather than the show wanting to introduce the characters. Mayfair’s response to the order to drive from someone with a gun was badass, but her response to doctor’s orders to rest in hospital after what happened in the car (back to work, booze) was stupid.
I still think ‘PoI did that better and someday I will crack open the next DVD’ while watching the show occasionally, but I am apparently invested.
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Kurt spent most of the episode being offish with Mayfair, riding hard on his high horse, meaning that Jane could sneak in and offer some advice on forgiveness. Both leads play the vulnerability in such tough characters well. I found Jane’s frame of reference being just the team extremely touching. Not only did Kurt manage to put her advice in play with Mayfair (because we’d seen from flashbacks why she felt really, really bad about Daylight, about which I just feel tired, because it’s ripped from the headlines) but with his father. I was pleasantly surprised by that, although I’d clocked that his disappointment with Mayfair qua mentor stemmed from his parental figure issues.
Meanwhile, apart from more Mayfair, we had more Tasha, as she and Jane hung out a bit - a training session here, a girls’ night there, and Jane was nice about Tasha having lost a partner in the past and being invested in the NYPD. For once, I felt Reed’s contrary POV was fair, and they could have done more with the tension over white police officers shooting unarmed black men, but it was all a smokescreen for corruption/blackmail, which fits into the bigger narrative. But anyway, the growing relationship between Tasha and Jane made for a greater punch when the Obnoxious and Oily CIA Deputy, who’d featured in the flashbacks, met up to remind her that he owned her.
A few interesting tit-bits, like the widow having some self-defence skills, David not being entirely written out of the story, the female cop being a little less into killing someone who was innocent than her male partner. I suspected the captain before them, mainly because he’d had the most lines. I suppose you can put their having lines at the meeting down to their being worried, rightly, that the feds would find out about their blackmail scam, rather than the show wanting to introduce the characters. Mayfair’s response to the order to drive from someone with a gun was badass, but her response to doctor’s orders to rest in hospital after what happened in the car (back to work, booze) was stupid.
I still think ‘PoI did that better and someday I will crack open the next DVD’ while watching the show occasionally, but I am apparently invested.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/359138.html.