E4 shows
First, a Brooklyn Nine-Nine quadruple bill:
B99 6.1 Honeymoon
Really tightly written. I thought Holt thinking he’d got the Commissioner’s job and then realising he hadn’t might be a reverse comment on the show’s cancellation and rescue, but maybe I was thinking too hard. Anyway, keeping him in the precinct is a better call for the series, after the whole being the third wheel on the honeymoon thing. And his superdepressed state, the novelty t-shirts and what he was interrupting was consistently amusing. As was the very Jake and Amy role-play.
6.2 Hitchcock and Scully
Young H&S were stunners, in several, bewildering senses. Cue the precinct’s current no.1 detective pairing being asked to investigate them while their partnership was under strain. Of course Jake’s going to be suspicious, Charles, he’s a detective who notices things.
Loved the upstairs/downstairs office politics of the whole precinct sharing a floor coming to a boil between Jeffords, Diaz and Santiago. Easy enough for Holt to dismiss them when his office was still just for him.
The new commissioner seems like a valid opponent.
I was glad that H&S had used the money to save an innocent, and that final scene, explaining their downfall was beautiful. I’d thought they’d cast the younger versions because they looked like they could be younger versions of the H&S we know, but also for that scene.
Aww, Captain Dad does give a hoot for his precinct.
6.3 The Tattler
Jake and Gina’s High School Reunion - I enjoyed the flashback. Classic. I figured out Gina had been the tattler a scene before Jake, and suspected the tech investor was lying too, but was amused by Amy let loose at a high school. (What WOULD hers be like?)
Competitive Holt emerged, and his swipe at yoghurt being Terry’s thing was harsh (but with enough truth in it), while Hitchcock turning up at the moment Rosa was meant to come to a decision about who she wanted to be with was spot on.
Pretty funny, I enjoyed the Jake/Amy and the Jake-Gina, although I don’t know what to make of Gina saying she’s leaving.
6.4 Four Movements
Always open to a bit o satirising of contemporary dance! So this ep is Gina’s goodbye - and the title cards a nod to…Frasier? And chess to…Bergman? More importantly, it was a nice summation of Gina and Holt’s relationship. Ditto Amy falling for the desire to be one of the cool girls, subverted - not least because the burning barrel wasn’t cool.
Jake and Gina got a slo-mo walk! The A.C. Slater thing was spot on generationally, while their repeated affected rich people laugh was a bit disturbing. Despite some meta commentary on Gina/Charles, the ‘is she ever leaving?’ thing dragged a bit, although it seems right that Gina made everyone applaud for her. And I don’t know if other viewers had been puzzling about the decision, like me. But hey, Gina has never come close to being my favourite, though she’s grown on me.
(Will they bring in a new character/assistant? Are we going to have a series of them? Will Hitchcock and Scully get upgraded as regulars, which they pretty much are - although the gender balance is now way, way off.)
Then Timeless 3.1, as they're showing it in two parts.
It was fun to watch this, partly because it was straight after The Widow. It felt really turbocharged, though.
Future!Lucy and Bearded!Wyatt (the horror) passed on The Diary and some tid-bit and, most usefully, their lifeboat with snazzy upgrades. Our Lucy and Wyatt were to crack the diary together, so it was ‘we would have done a Titanic episode’ this, ‘we were going to explore Lucy/Flynn’ that, plus a handy exposition device for ‘I’m sorry I broke your heart after Hollywood’, as if the writers couldn’t quite trust this one was for the fans.
There was a lot of back and forth on the relationship front, with Flynn admitting Lucy/Wyatt were endgame, Wyatt emotionally realising that to save Rufus Jessica had to die (er, okay, show logic). Lucy and Jiya were all ‘we’re not letting you go alone!’ Flynn pretended to be a sensible grown-up, lulled them, and went forward in time to heroically sacrifice himself and kill her instead. So we saw the Wyatt-Jessica fight of great fame (although the timeline has surely changed so much that it wasn’t quite the fight Wyatt remembered, because Jessica was now Rittenhouse trained and protected, but I’m not going to trouble myself overmuch with whether Flynn was always meant to be Jessica’s killer in the grand scheme of things. Maybe he was in the writers’.) Flynn got to give a voiceover goodbye to Lucy and get toasted by everyone else. And Wyatt and Lucy were to share a room in the bunker now, because in this timeline they were together, but mainly they were awkward. And still unable to stop looking at each other.
So, Rufus thought he was saving everyone and he’d been saved! Aww.
I really liked Jiya on the missions, having her moment over the horses and keeping everyone focused. I also liked that there were consequences to her time in San Fran, which she and Rufus had never had a chance to discuss or deal with before.
If that isn’t enough to be resolved in the second hour, they’ve also brought Lucy’s sister back into play. Potentially.
What is Emma up to? It must be more than having this soldier kill new team Lifeboat. Didn’t they change her look a bit? But I cannot tell you how bizarrely comforting it was to have called it that Emma would shoot the Rittenhouse agent who took her at her word and tried to walk away in the back. Silly man.
E4 are advertising the return of Gotham. EEE!
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/378865.html.
B99 6.1 Honeymoon
Really tightly written. I thought Holt thinking he’d got the Commissioner’s job and then realising he hadn’t might be a reverse comment on the show’s cancellation and rescue, but maybe I was thinking too hard. Anyway, keeping him in the precinct is a better call for the series, after the whole being the third wheel on the honeymoon thing. And his superdepressed state, the novelty t-shirts and what he was interrupting was consistently amusing. As was the very Jake and Amy role-play.
6.2 Hitchcock and Scully
Young H&S were stunners, in several, bewildering senses. Cue the precinct’s current no.1 detective pairing being asked to investigate them while their partnership was under strain. Of course Jake’s going to be suspicious, Charles, he’s a detective who notices things.
Loved the upstairs/downstairs office politics of the whole precinct sharing a floor coming to a boil between Jeffords, Diaz and Santiago. Easy enough for Holt to dismiss them when his office was still just for him.
The new commissioner seems like a valid opponent.
I was glad that H&S had used the money to save an innocent, and that final scene, explaining their downfall was beautiful. I’d thought they’d cast the younger versions because they looked like they could be younger versions of the H&S we know, but also for that scene.
Aww, Captain Dad does give a hoot for his precinct.
6.3 The Tattler
Jake and Gina’s High School Reunion - I enjoyed the flashback. Classic. I figured out Gina had been the tattler a scene before Jake, and suspected the tech investor was lying too, but was amused by Amy let loose at a high school. (What WOULD hers be like?)
Competitive Holt emerged, and his swipe at yoghurt being Terry’s thing was harsh (but with enough truth in it), while Hitchcock turning up at the moment Rosa was meant to come to a decision about who she wanted to be with was spot on.
Pretty funny, I enjoyed the Jake/Amy and the Jake-Gina, although I don’t know what to make of Gina saying she’s leaving.
6.4 Four Movements
Always open to a bit o satirising of contemporary dance! So this ep is Gina’s goodbye - and the title cards a nod to…Frasier? And chess to…Bergman? More importantly, it was a nice summation of Gina and Holt’s relationship. Ditto Amy falling for the desire to be one of the cool girls, subverted - not least because the burning barrel wasn’t cool.
Jake and Gina got a slo-mo walk! The A.C. Slater thing was spot on generationally, while their repeated affected rich people laugh was a bit disturbing. Despite some meta commentary on Gina/Charles, the ‘is she ever leaving?’ thing dragged a bit, although it seems right that Gina made everyone applaud for her. And I don’t know if other viewers had been puzzling about the decision, like me. But hey, Gina has never come close to being my favourite, though she’s grown on me.
(Will they bring in a new character/assistant? Are we going to have a series of them? Will Hitchcock and Scully get upgraded as regulars, which they pretty much are - although the gender balance is now way, way off.)
Then Timeless 3.1, as they're showing it in two parts.
It was fun to watch this, partly because it was straight after The Widow. It felt really turbocharged, though.
Future!Lucy and Bearded!Wyatt (the horror) passed on The Diary and some tid-bit and, most usefully, their lifeboat with snazzy upgrades. Our Lucy and Wyatt were to crack the diary together, so it was ‘we would have done a Titanic episode’ this, ‘we were going to explore Lucy/Flynn’ that, plus a handy exposition device for ‘I’m sorry I broke your heart after Hollywood’, as if the writers couldn’t quite trust this one was for the fans.
There was a lot of back and forth on the relationship front, with Flynn admitting Lucy/Wyatt were endgame, Wyatt emotionally realising that to save Rufus Jessica had to die (er, okay, show logic). Lucy and Jiya were all ‘we’re not letting you go alone!’ Flynn pretended to be a sensible grown-up, lulled them, and went forward in time to heroically sacrifice himself and kill her instead. So we saw the Wyatt-Jessica fight of great fame (although the timeline has surely changed so much that it wasn’t quite the fight Wyatt remembered, because Jessica was now Rittenhouse trained and protected, but I’m not going to trouble myself overmuch with whether Flynn was always meant to be Jessica’s killer in the grand scheme of things. Maybe he was in the writers’.) Flynn got to give a voiceover goodbye to Lucy and get toasted by everyone else. And Wyatt and Lucy were to share a room in the bunker now, because in this timeline they were together, but mainly they were awkward. And still unable to stop looking at each other.
So, Rufus thought he was saving everyone and he’d been saved! Aww.
I really liked Jiya on the missions, having her moment over the horses and keeping everyone focused. I also liked that there were consequences to her time in San Fran, which she and Rufus had never had a chance to discuss or deal with before.
If that isn’t enough to be resolved in the second hour, they’ve also brought Lucy’s sister back into play. Potentially.
What is Emma up to? It must be more than having this soldier kill new team Lifeboat. Didn’t they change her look a bit? But I cannot tell you how bizarrely comforting it was to have called it that Emma would shoot the Rittenhouse agent who took her at her word and tried to walk away in the back. Silly man.
E4 are advertising the return of Gotham. EEE!
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/378865.html.