Some other TV I watched (last weekend)
Killing Eve 6.6 I Hope You Like Missionary!
We dived straight into Nico’s response to Villanelle’s truth bombs, with added stalker!Villanelle. No question that Eve and Nico had sex, but in the morning after, their feelings about it were entirely different.
So, Eve went to work and ponder the fact that the son (played by a Paul Dano lookalike) had done it, and her brilliant idea was to send in Villanelle not to kill but to garner information on a man who’s willing to order kills and owns information. Cue me spending the rest of the episode going, ‘And that’s why you don’t send a psychopathic assassin to do a spy’s job.’
Comer was dazzling on the accent front, btw.
This meant that while being secretly stalked (so petty, Villanelle - echoed by Eve visiting Nico’s push-up bra colleague and being pettier), Eve got to experience work!Villanelle, who is most annoying/entertaining.
I did wonder why Nico’s colleague offered for Eve to come in, but it became apparent it was because nothing was going on. Yet. As Eve saw. And enabled by her behaviour.
Meanwhile Carolyn, to be seen in various droll locations and situations, is Eve’s enabler, being cold as ice over Amber’s handler becoming collateral damage. That was a big jump off the sofa moment, even though it was obviously coming.
I may also have cheered at Villanelle attacking Aaron-the-bully. I was amused by Konstantin literally eating popcorn while this was going on, and Villanelle giving up on the earpiece because of the unhelpful squabbling.
Kenny showed up to have a ‘How bad is my life?’ moment with his mum’s ‘friends’. (Dude, move out.) Hugo’s posh boy feelings got hurt at Eve calling him Kenny because she associated him with errand boying. But as I generally don’t remember his name, and their almost kiss was transference of Eve feelings about Villanelle, he gets little sy mpathy.
Enough happened, you’d think, to check Eve on the path she’s on (best case scenario, she turns into Carolyn). Meanwhile the two young women foolishly thought Villanelle was one of them, and not a predator. (Were they a glimpse of what she could have become if she wasn’t a psychopath?)
Agents of SHIELD 6.8 Collision Course Part 1 (in my defence, I didn’t know the ep title when watching it)
Fine. Some decent moments, some daffy ones.
There was still too much posturing and not enough talking from Sarge and Mack, but the latter said they’d come back to who Sarge is (I’m sure other people have detailed memories of all Coulson’s interactions with the Monoliths. I’m not one of them so I have no theories). I’m glad we got quick confirmation that Izel is the Queen of the Shrike, even if some of the exposition Mack and Yo-Yo spouted made me roll my eyes hard.
When the Chromicoms said they had Fitzsimmons’ mind, I did wonder if they meant literally, and not just the trace of it, because for a pair of alleged geniuses, they were stupidly unsuspicious, or so desperate to get home that they noticed little, if one’s inclined to be kind. I was very amused by Fitz in the singular position of being jealous of the version of him that had already married Jemma.
May trusting Sarge - although I wouldn’t be surprised if Izel and he had romantical/sexual history - is interesting. Daisy was having a hard time with Sarge having Coulson’s face and body - dude, they had to give the lead actor something to do. Deke was not so much in love with Daisy that he could resist Snowbabes. Oy. Jarko is still Sarge’s favourite crewmember, as he is the most useful. This is fair enough.
We cut off before convergence, and the stinger was about how the Chromicoms are still plot related. A minor quibble from me: why cast lookalikes as another anthropologist and another hunter? It’s going to get confusing, and unlike needing to use the same sets, unnecessary.
Gotham 5.6 13 Stitches
Really effective opening - because purely visual - of Jim running for his life. Oh, Ed, Jim and ‘ill-advised’ are like fish and chips. Can Ed getting electrocuted be a thing for the whole season?
Bruce got suspicious of the soldiers; I wondered with little hope whether we’d delve into soldier!Alfred backstory. (Spoiler: not this episode, no.)
Anyway, with the station a no-go area, jim and Ed turned up at Babs’s. She just wants him to trust her! Understandably, he’s not quite able to do it. Apparently she didn’t dob him in to Eduardo, though. I thought she’d have booby trapped her club, but she just had guns under the bar. (I’ll take that as this episode’s Western moment.)
The business between Oswald and Selina doesn’t quite track - her being a target as Jeremiah’s killer feels like the storyline they should pursue, instead of bringing in new girl-thief competition, however funny ‘Goth chicken’ is as a description. But sure, let’s return to pragmatist!Selina wanting a diamond and being able to argue back with Penguin, and it becomes cool CatPenguin business.
We learned Eduardo considers all of Gotham criminals, as the soldiers overpowered the cops. Of course Harvey’s answer to ‘Any questions?’ was ‘Are you insane?’ with predictable results pace the flashforward.
I was spoiled for Lee’s return, and I’ve been banging on about what happened to her since the start of the season, but I am disappointed that it was framed in the context of Barbara/Jim/Lee triangularity when we last saw her killing Ed and likewise. What is special about that is that they both succeeded. And just as I was nodding in acquiescence that Lee was a criminal, they went and made her an amnesiac and thus more like the innocent damsel for Jim to rescue.
I roused from my snooze to snort at Jim accusing other people of recklessness.
Funny that Bruce bossed around the ramshackle team of Alfred, Lucius, Babs and Ed. I mean, Lucius later gave the orders, appropriately, but the wee!Bat can command.
Oswald went along with Selina on their total sideshow. Did the actress playing Magpie try out for Harley and they decided to give her this as a consolation prize?
Ed made for an entertaining distraction, especially with well-meaning Harvey being heroic. Bruce did some proto-Batmaning, Eduardo got impaled, but Lee was Queen of the Narrows enough not to be a total wet and saved herself. I’m taking what I can get.
Selina can outsmart Oswald, heh. Her wanting out of a Gotham where she has a target on her back makes sense. He’s just had enough of doing the same thing twice. Maybe that wasn’t such a total sideshow, after all.
Ed just slinking away from Lee and leaving her to Jim was DISAPPOINTING. Ditto Barbara’s stricken face. Jim was delighted to unburden himself to Lee but was too thick to make the connection between Lee-Ed-stabbing-medical facility-Strange. And so he was surprised when she tried to kill him.
We saw Walker turn a still-not-dead Eduardo into proto!Bane, Alfred jump at shadows, I wondered who was out and about, and was pleasantly surprised at it being Jeremiah. So, he’s ready to bait Bruce after two seconds in hiding.
Speaking of time passing quickly, that is a mighty quick realisation she’s pregnant from Babs (but also: so that’s how Barbara Gordon gets made.)
An episode that loved the nearly extreme close-up, but despite all the visual flair, was not that great.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/390277.html.
We dived straight into Nico’s response to Villanelle’s truth bombs, with added stalker!Villanelle. No question that Eve and Nico had sex, but in the morning after, their feelings about it were entirely different.
So, Eve went to work and ponder the fact that the son (played by a Paul Dano lookalike) had done it, and her brilliant idea was to send in Villanelle not to kill but to garner information on a man who’s willing to order kills and owns information. Cue me spending the rest of the episode going, ‘And that’s why you don’t send a psychopathic assassin to do a spy’s job.’
Comer was dazzling on the accent front, btw.
This meant that while being secretly stalked (so petty, Villanelle - echoed by Eve visiting Nico’s push-up bra colleague and being pettier), Eve got to experience work!Villanelle, who is most annoying/entertaining.
I did wonder why Nico’s colleague offered for Eve to come in, but it became apparent it was because nothing was going on. Yet. As Eve saw. And enabled by her behaviour.
Meanwhile Carolyn, to be seen in various droll locations and situations, is Eve’s enabler, being cold as ice over Amber’s handler becoming collateral damage. That was a big jump off the sofa moment, even though it was obviously coming.
I may also have cheered at Villanelle attacking Aaron-the-bully. I was amused by Konstantin literally eating popcorn while this was going on, and Villanelle giving up on the earpiece because of the unhelpful squabbling.
Kenny showed up to have a ‘How bad is my life?’ moment with his mum’s ‘friends’. (Dude, move out.) Hugo’s posh boy feelings got hurt at Eve calling him Kenny because she associated him with errand boying. But as I generally don’t remember his name, and their almost kiss was transference of Eve feelings about Villanelle, he gets little sy mpathy.
Enough happened, you’d think, to check Eve on the path she’s on (best case scenario, she turns into Carolyn). Meanwhile the two young women foolishly thought Villanelle was one of them, and not a predator. (Were they a glimpse of what she could have become if she wasn’t a psychopath?)
Agents of SHIELD 6.8 Collision Course Part 1 (in my defence, I didn’t know the ep title when watching it)
Fine. Some decent moments, some daffy ones.
There was still too much posturing and not enough talking from Sarge and Mack, but the latter said they’d come back to who Sarge is (I’m sure other people have detailed memories of all Coulson’s interactions with the Monoliths. I’m not one of them so I have no theories). I’m glad we got quick confirmation that Izel is the Queen of the Shrike, even if some of the exposition Mack and Yo-Yo spouted made me roll my eyes hard.
When the Chromicoms said they had Fitzsimmons’ mind, I did wonder if they meant literally, and not just the trace of it, because for a pair of alleged geniuses, they were stupidly unsuspicious, or so desperate to get home that they noticed little, if one’s inclined to be kind. I was very amused by Fitz in the singular position of being jealous of the version of him that had already married Jemma.
May trusting Sarge - although I wouldn’t be surprised if Izel and he had romantical/sexual history - is interesting. Daisy was having a hard time with Sarge having Coulson’s face and body - dude, they had to give the lead actor something to do. Deke was not so much in love with Daisy that he could resist Snowbabes. Oy. Jarko is still Sarge’s favourite crewmember, as he is the most useful. This is fair enough.
We cut off before convergence, and the stinger was about how the Chromicoms are still plot related. A minor quibble from me: why cast lookalikes as another anthropologist and another hunter? It’s going to get confusing, and unlike needing to use the same sets, unnecessary.
Gotham 5.6 13 Stitches
Really effective opening - because purely visual - of Jim running for his life. Oh, Ed, Jim and ‘ill-advised’ are like fish and chips. Can Ed getting electrocuted be a thing for the whole season?
Bruce got suspicious of the soldiers; I wondered with little hope whether we’d delve into soldier!Alfred backstory. (Spoiler: not this episode, no.)
Anyway, with the station a no-go area, jim and Ed turned up at Babs’s. She just wants him to trust her! Understandably, he’s not quite able to do it. Apparently she didn’t dob him in to Eduardo, though. I thought she’d have booby trapped her club, but she just had guns under the bar. (I’ll take that as this episode’s Western moment.)
The business between Oswald and Selina doesn’t quite track - her being a target as Jeremiah’s killer feels like the storyline they should pursue, instead of bringing in new girl-thief competition, however funny ‘Goth chicken’ is as a description. But sure, let’s return to pragmatist!Selina wanting a diamond and being able to argue back with Penguin, and it becomes cool CatPenguin business.
We learned Eduardo considers all of Gotham criminals, as the soldiers overpowered the cops. Of course Harvey’s answer to ‘Any questions?’ was ‘Are you insane?’ with predictable results pace the flashforward.
I was spoiled for Lee’s return, and I’ve been banging on about what happened to her since the start of the season, but I am disappointed that it was framed in the context of Barbara/Jim/Lee triangularity when we last saw her killing Ed and likewise. What is special about that is that they both succeeded. And just as I was nodding in acquiescence that Lee was a criminal, they went and made her an amnesiac and thus more like the innocent damsel for Jim to rescue.
I roused from my snooze to snort at Jim accusing other people of recklessness.
Funny that Bruce bossed around the ramshackle team of Alfred, Lucius, Babs and Ed. I mean, Lucius later gave the orders, appropriately, but the wee!Bat can command.
Oswald went along with Selina on their total sideshow. Did the actress playing Magpie try out for Harley and they decided to give her this as a consolation prize?
Ed made for an entertaining distraction, especially with well-meaning Harvey being heroic. Bruce did some proto-Batmaning, Eduardo got impaled, but Lee was Queen of the Narrows enough not to be a total wet and saved herself. I’m taking what I can get.
Selina can outsmart Oswald, heh. Her wanting out of a Gotham where she has a target on her back makes sense. He’s just had enough of doing the same thing twice. Maybe that wasn’t such a total sideshow, after all.
Ed just slinking away from Lee and leaving her to Jim was DISAPPOINTING. Ditto Barbara’s stricken face. Jim was delighted to unburden himself to Lee but was too thick to make the connection between Lee-Ed-stabbing-medical facility-Strange. And so he was surprised when she tried to kill him.
We saw Walker turn a still-not-dead Eduardo into proto!Bane, Alfred jump at shadows, I wondered who was out and about, and was pleasantly surprised at it being Jeremiah. So, he’s ready to bait Bruce after two seconds in hiding.
Speaking of time passing quickly, that is a mighty quick realisation she’s pregnant from Babs (but also: so that’s how Barbara Gordon gets made.)
An episode that loved the nearly extreme close-up, but despite all the visual flair, was not that great.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/390277.html.