Good TV policing, bad TV policing
B99 7.1 Manhunter
I’d forgotten that Holt had got demoted to an officer (though I’m confused that Jeffords wasn’t in charge instead of Peralta) and they played up Jake’s issues with that. I felt smug that I suspected the hot dog guy, thank you very much. Apart from Hitchcock and Scully’s slo-mo entrance, most of the laughs (as opposed to the grins) for me came from Amy and Rosa - Rosa was a pretty good friend in her own Rosa way, all supportive of Amy. Will quirky-odd Debbie Fogel remain as Holt’s partner? It’s just that sans Gina it’s a more male show. But it was mostly good to see everone back and being themselves.
I’m not going to talk about how cute but insane Jake and Amy could be as parents, or I’ll go all Charles, but I will admit to being earwormed by 'Maneater'.
I think I have two episodes to catch up on.
Noughts and Crosses - episode 5
After whinging about the usual way they open an episode, they changed it and it was most effective with Meggie learning about Ted’s death via the radio. It devolved into me thinking everyone bar Kemal and Meggie, to a degree, was an idiot. Even Dawn seemed to be risking a lot on the ineptitude of the police - if Callum wasn’t cleaned down, what about forensic evidence around the room?
Having said that, I liked Jasmine’s arc - even if she should have set up her own account (if she could) and used that to pay for the lawyer that the family badly needed now. Kemal tried to gaslight her, BUT IT DIDN’T WORK. Her response to the Yarrow news and Sephie/Callum was ace. Especially withstanding the temptation of alcohol. (Though she’s wrong on where the human heart is.)
Otherwise, I guess the point is that they’re not big on rational thought in this world. Though he was wrong about everything else, Jude was not wrong about Ted not having killed himself. I couldn’t believe that they didn’t do more about the impact of the thought he’d killed himself on the McGregors. But Jude and Sephie slagging each other off is all Pot, (slightly smaller) Kettle.
Sephie kept getting tripped up on her own privilege, as Callum kept distancing himself from her. His emotional state was well conveyed, and it went all star-crossed lovers as he misconstrued Lacan and Sephie’s hug (sidenote: if Kemal is PM now, surely security at his house should be better than this. Did Megie and Yarrow just walk in too?) Callum listened to Jude, who’d got ‘the movement is changing direction ’form what evidence? Jude is articulate, but thick, and too lazy to pick up the post, sign on or take responsibility for anything. Ahem.
Of course, Dawn did what he does - manipulates a situation and gets people killed. Callum was now complicit, and his rejection of Sephie was inevitable after all that had happened, for I don’t think the poison of Kemal’s speech would have stuck sans the hug and she could have explained that away if there wasn’t blood on his hands.
Ew, Lacan. Even daddy issues!Minerva deserves better than someone who keeps begging his ex, even when she’s made clear she wants him to leae her be. This show is too good on toxic masculinity.
The scene with the crowd was good - it was refreshing to have the wider view, and the protesters suggested other means of protest than terrorism. Meanwhile, the Cabinet learned that the man who’d orchestrated a coup against the past PM really hadn’t been pretending about being strong on law on order and pro segregation. Again, idiots.
In the midst of her grief, Meggie had to deal with her sons’ testosterone-fuelled grief and face up to her own hypocrisy. Though the point about Kemal is not so much that he’s a terrible father (why would Yarrow want a relationship with him?) but a dodgy leader. Just look at the similarities between him and Dawn.
Huh, writing these thoughts up and doing a smidge more analysis has made me warm more to the episode.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/420454.html.
I’d forgotten that Holt had got demoted to an officer (though I’m confused that Jeffords wasn’t in charge instead of Peralta) and they played up Jake’s issues with that. I felt smug that I suspected the hot dog guy, thank you very much. Apart from Hitchcock and Scully’s slo-mo entrance, most of the laughs (as opposed to the grins) for me came from Amy and Rosa - Rosa was a pretty good friend in her own Rosa way, all supportive of Amy. Will quirky-odd Debbie Fogel remain as Holt’s partner? It’s just that sans Gina it’s a more male show. But it was mostly good to see everone back and being themselves.
I’m not going to talk about how cute but insane Jake and Amy could be as parents, or I’ll go all Charles, but I will admit to being earwormed by 'Maneater'.
I think I have two episodes to catch up on.
Noughts and Crosses - episode 5
After whinging about the usual way they open an episode, they changed it and it was most effective with Meggie learning about Ted’s death via the radio. It devolved into me thinking everyone bar Kemal and Meggie, to a degree, was an idiot. Even Dawn seemed to be risking a lot on the ineptitude of the police - if Callum wasn’t cleaned down, what about forensic evidence around the room?
Having said that, I liked Jasmine’s arc - even if she should have set up her own account (if she could) and used that to pay for the lawyer that the family badly needed now. Kemal tried to gaslight her, BUT IT DIDN’T WORK. Her response to the Yarrow news and Sephie/Callum was ace. Especially withstanding the temptation of alcohol. (Though she’s wrong on where the human heart is.)
Otherwise, I guess the point is that they’re not big on rational thought in this world. Though he was wrong about everything else, Jude was not wrong about Ted not having killed himself. I couldn’t believe that they didn’t do more about the impact of the thought he’d killed himself on the McGregors. But Jude and Sephie slagging each other off is all Pot, (slightly smaller) Kettle.
Sephie kept getting tripped up on her own privilege, as Callum kept distancing himself from her. His emotional state was well conveyed, and it went all star-crossed lovers as he misconstrued Lacan and Sephie’s hug (sidenote: if Kemal is PM now, surely security at his house should be better than this. Did Megie and Yarrow just walk in too?) Callum listened to Jude, who’d got ‘the movement is changing direction ’form what evidence? Jude is articulate, but thick, and too lazy to pick up the post, sign on or take responsibility for anything. Ahem.
Of course, Dawn did what he does - manipulates a situation and gets people killed. Callum was now complicit, and his rejection of Sephie was inevitable after all that had happened, for I don’t think the poison of Kemal’s speech would have stuck sans the hug and she could have explained that away if there wasn’t blood on his hands.
Ew, Lacan. Even daddy issues!Minerva deserves better than someone who keeps begging his ex, even when she’s made clear she wants him to leae her be. This show is too good on toxic masculinity.
The scene with the crowd was good - it was refreshing to have the wider view, and the protesters suggested other means of protest than terrorism. Meanwhile, the Cabinet learned that the man who’d orchestrated a coup against the past PM really hadn’t been pretending about being strong on law on order and pro segregation. Again, idiots.
In the midst of her grief, Meggie had to deal with her sons’ testosterone-fuelled grief and face up to her own hypocrisy. Though the point about Kemal is not so much that he’s a terrible father (why would Yarrow want a relationship with him?) but a dodgy leader. Just look at the similarities between him and Dawn.
Huh, writing these thoughts up and doing a smidge more analysis has made me warm more to the episode.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/420454.html.