Weekend TV etc
Killing Eve 2.1 Do You Know How to Dispose of a Dead Body?
I only truly realised Killing Eve’s second season was airing on UK TV on Saturday night on Saturday morning. Eek.
I don’t know if ‘moreish’ was the word for it, ‘very rich’ may be a better description. It pointedly started thirty seconds after the first series, and I felt a little bad for not having rewatched the first series. I don’t know what to make of a show I loved that I am clearly not enough of a superfan of, but I’ve got a little jaded about building up for things (e.g. I didn’t feel the need to rewatch any X-Men movies before going to see Dark Phoenix.)
Obviously, Eve had to deal with the fact that she’d stabbed someone, possibly to death, and that that someone was Villanelle, and Villanelle had to deal with said stabbing. It felt like we followed both much more than you normally would after such an event in a normal thriller, with the more normal person blundering through their shock, but even the pro relying on their wits.
Oh, Gabriel. Yes, you could rely on Villanelle for an honest appraisal, but you pretty much invited death by confiding in her, which invited more trouble for her, but like Eve, she cobbled together convincing lies, and got out of the hospital. In ridiculous boys’ pyjamas.
The similarities between them were highlighted.
Eve properly freaked out at home, although the need for sugar and hysterical laughter were understandable.
I loved Carolyn insisting on the meet (that would be the only jolting elision in the ep), and Fiona Shaw was having a rollicking good time as the wrong-footing spy boss. Eve’s hubby had to deal with the more emotional breakdown aspect, and she couldn’t really tell him what had happened, could she?
With the use of music and - enjoyable though they are - people doing ‘inappropriate’ things in reaction to thriller-type events partly for narrative shock value (Villanelle jumping at the taxi) bordering on being too much, it’s still such an entertaining ride.
So, Eve’s still got her job and Villanelle is coming after her. Who knows what will happen next with Carolyn? (Also, how long are they planning for this series to last? See, not a superfan, I’ve ignored the novellas.)
Agents of SHIELD
6.3 Fear and Loathing on the Planet Kitson
This got more enjoyable the more it ripped off Farscape.
The hunter’s ring-transporter thing was the coolest doohickey in the episode. At one point, I went ‘Time Cop’! But it turns out he’s a Chromium.
Simmons was unrepentant about going against everyone’s wishes and Skye’s orders to go the other side of the galaxy for Fitz. Unsurprising, but not helpful for team spirit.
Fitz and Enoch’s heroics were rewarded by being dumped on Kitson. I wonder who is the person named Kitson who annoyed the writers so much. Anyway, I wasn’t overly enthused by a house of games episode in space, and given that Fitz and Enoch were talking very loudly about how the latter was almost a robot (and Enoch’s stance on this shifted from scene to scene, it has to be said), it was a rubbish casino. I can see the owners just letting the brawlers (i.e. Quake and the hunters) brawl themselves out, though.
The episode got a lot better the second Daisy and Jemma got stoned. I always love those two on a mission (their being BFFs has long been established) and Ladies Night was a delight because of their back and forth. Acknowledging Skye’s bad run with the boyfriends! I mean, Farscape would have made a Thing of Tiny Mouse Fitz (like turned him into a recurring character, probably), but I appreciated it.
Team Zephyr was rubbish about the hunter, he should have been guarded, and certainly not by a stoned out of his gourd Davis.
It has dawned on me that Enoch is staying because the actor is a regular, of which I approve, especially after this episode. There were a few seconds where I thought he was going to have to sacrifice himself for his ‘best friend’ Fitz, but I’m glad he didn’t. Some of his suggestions were hilarious, and his Marvin the Paranoid Android routine was amusing (with that and the dolphin thing, there was a trace of Hitch-hiker’s going on). He totally deserves being discharged from duty, he’s been the worst anthropologist, even if he’s been a more ethical being because of it. So, it’ll be interesting to see how he gets on with Team Zephyr.
Fitszimmons were reunited for like five seconds, before being torn asunder again. She’d been crying very prettily, he had a heroic entrance - and at least he now knows he doesn’t need to nap into the future, if he has any choice in the matter. Those Two and their tragic drama.
So what’s happened to Deke? Is he wandering a lemon grove in ecstasy? Was he snapped out of existence, even though that doesn’t seem to have happened on Earth or anywhere else?
Otherwise, Alt!Coulson and his sidekick starting their destruction of Earth or whatever makes me less interested in the next episode if that’s all Earthbound. Apart from the scenes involving Melinda May, obviously.
Den of Geek argues for how Dark Pheonix ‘fixes’ the X-Men movie continuity here. It’s plausible up to a point - I haven’t seen the Deadpool films - and I think that point is X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/385797.html.
I only truly realised Killing Eve’s second season was airing on UK TV on Saturday night on Saturday morning. Eek.
I don’t know if ‘moreish’ was the word for it, ‘very rich’ may be a better description. It pointedly started thirty seconds after the first series, and I felt a little bad for not having rewatched the first series. I don’t know what to make of a show I loved that I am clearly not enough of a superfan of, but I’ve got a little jaded about building up for things (e.g. I didn’t feel the need to rewatch any X-Men movies before going to see Dark Phoenix.)
Obviously, Eve had to deal with the fact that she’d stabbed someone, possibly to death, and that that someone was Villanelle, and Villanelle had to deal with said stabbing. It felt like we followed both much more than you normally would after such an event in a normal thriller, with the more normal person blundering through their shock, but even the pro relying on their wits.
Oh, Gabriel. Yes, you could rely on Villanelle for an honest appraisal, but you pretty much invited death by confiding in her, which invited more trouble for her, but like Eve, she cobbled together convincing lies, and got out of the hospital. In ridiculous boys’ pyjamas.
The similarities between them were highlighted.
Eve properly freaked out at home, although the need for sugar and hysterical laughter were understandable.
I loved Carolyn insisting on the meet (that would be the only jolting elision in the ep), and Fiona Shaw was having a rollicking good time as the wrong-footing spy boss. Eve’s hubby had to deal with the more emotional breakdown aspect, and she couldn’t really tell him what had happened, could she?
With the use of music and - enjoyable though they are - people doing ‘inappropriate’ things in reaction to thriller-type events partly for narrative shock value (Villanelle jumping at the taxi) bordering on being too much, it’s still such an entertaining ride.
So, Eve’s still got her job and Villanelle is coming after her. Who knows what will happen next with Carolyn? (Also, how long are they planning for this series to last? See, not a superfan, I’ve ignored the novellas.)
Agents of SHIELD
6.3 Fear and Loathing on the Planet Kitson
This got more enjoyable the more it ripped off Farscape.
The hunter’s ring-transporter thing was the coolest doohickey in the episode. At one point, I went ‘Time Cop’! But it turns out he’s a Chromium.
Simmons was unrepentant about going against everyone’s wishes and Skye’s orders to go the other side of the galaxy for Fitz. Unsurprising, but not helpful for team spirit.
Fitz and Enoch’s heroics were rewarded by being dumped on Kitson. I wonder who is the person named Kitson who annoyed the writers so much. Anyway, I wasn’t overly enthused by a house of games episode in space, and given that Fitz and Enoch were talking very loudly about how the latter was almost a robot (and Enoch’s stance on this shifted from scene to scene, it has to be said), it was a rubbish casino. I can see the owners just letting the brawlers (i.e. Quake and the hunters) brawl themselves out, though.
The episode got a lot better the second Daisy and Jemma got stoned. I always love those two on a mission (their being BFFs has long been established) and Ladies Night was a delight because of their back and forth. Acknowledging Skye’s bad run with the boyfriends! I mean, Farscape would have made a Thing of Tiny Mouse Fitz (like turned him into a recurring character, probably), but I appreciated it.
Team Zephyr was rubbish about the hunter, he should have been guarded, and certainly not by a stoned out of his gourd Davis.
It has dawned on me that Enoch is staying because the actor is a regular, of which I approve, especially after this episode. There were a few seconds where I thought he was going to have to sacrifice himself for his ‘best friend’ Fitz, but I’m glad he didn’t. Some of his suggestions were hilarious, and his Marvin the Paranoid Android routine was amusing (with that and the dolphin thing, there was a trace of Hitch-hiker’s going on). He totally deserves being discharged from duty, he’s been the worst anthropologist, even if he’s been a more ethical being because of it. So, it’ll be interesting to see how he gets on with Team Zephyr.
Fitszimmons were reunited for like five seconds, before being torn asunder again. She’d been crying very prettily, he had a heroic entrance - and at least he now knows he doesn’t need to nap into the future, if he has any choice in the matter. Those Two and their tragic drama.
So what’s happened to Deke? Is he wandering a lemon grove in ecstasy? Was he snapped out of existence, even though that doesn’t seem to have happened on Earth or anywhere else?
Otherwise, Alt!Coulson and his sidekick starting their destruction of Earth or whatever makes me less interested in the next episode if that’s all Earthbound. Apart from the scenes involving Melinda May, obviously.
Den of Geek argues for how Dark Pheonix ‘fixes’ the X-Men movie continuity here. It’s plausible up to a point - I haven’t seen the Deadpool films - and I think that point is X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/385797.html.