5x07 Awl In

I wasn't aware that this show is a comedy. Oh, sorry. This season. It has become so comical, it's not even funny. That's how bad it is. I'm also getting very sick and tired of drama for drama's sake and to stretch the episode out to meet its runtime quota. And it was somewhat decent in the beginning, I guess, just not anywhere near as fitting as it should've been from the start for the final season.

On the bright side, if only that still mattered, the plot has started to progress, instead of being dragged out, semi-progressed, then backtracked. The plotline of the team's mysterious ally has been brought to the surface, somewhat. And it's about freaking time.

Of course, the person Jake was talking to is probably the person we saw in the premiere, not him. But knowing that he's involved and maybe the CIA as well, that's progress in itself. It only took most of the season, which makes me think, even more, that everything will be rushed to a close. I don't see how that won't be the case.

It’s not really adding too much. Dragging out them getting balls to just go take Madeline out. Tired of Botox face.

The budget only stretched to 1 mediocre wig this episode so they used it to buy a Billy Ray Cyrus one for Kurt and then just put Jane in a bad blonde one from a costume shop. I could feel the synthetic fibres from here.

This season simply threw subtlety while handling its emotional parts out the door didn't it? It's done so on-your-nose and snucked at the middle of a random conversation, it looks deeply manufactured and unnatural. Someone was fire from the writing team and they had to hire someone in the spot - or maybe they asked the director's cousin to do it, idk. Everything looks cheap. At least something is happening to move the plot foward, 7 episodes into the season,

I really adored Allie in the previous seasons, so I'm so happy she finally came back - it's about damn time! ( Besides, Trieste is super pretty, and I always enjoy watching a badass woman on my screen )

It would've been cool to have seen someone at the end of that little camera pan when Gregory called Tasha, to add a little bit of suspense 'cos we know Madeline was somewhat unsettled at that last conversation.

Also, Keaton !!! I kinda forgot he came up earlier in the season. Once again I applaud that the writers continually pick and choose little cameos that lead into the bigger picture. So now we know that there's a number of people behind the messages, including Allie and Keaton... Going off of this theme, could Bill Nye also be a part? And on that note, what's Boston been up to? 'Cos he's definitely alive and could be the hacker part of the operations, even though we haven't seen him in a while, not to mention he had a thing with Rich.

Another mixed bag...

Good:
* Just about every moment with Greg in it. Not hard to like the guy, and to sympathize with what he must be going through with what he's learning. Even the mistake with the phone—not really something he would have known about—and the sadness that followed. I hope that that isn't all we see of him.
* I hoped and suspected that Allison, who is far too smart for this, was performing layers of prepared story for Madeline throughout all of that. And, indeed, in the end, Allison was giving the finger, so to speak.

Has Potential:
That end-reveal moment was kinda cool. I just hope they do something worthy with it.

Bad:
Every single emotional-crisis moment in this episode—and there were several—was sooo poorly manufactured. The concept behind them all is totally valid and in the background all the time, but, for some reason, every time it's been brought into the foreground it's been done with such supreme poke-you-in-the-eye clumsiness that I'd rather they just tossed it soft a line once in awhile and left it back there.

Madeline has to be one of the worst tv characters. Terrible. I think the metoo movement has destroyed this show.