Everytime I think I'm done with this show it pulls me back in This time around it was character drama. As much as I rag on this show I cannot deny that Hawk is genuinely an engaging protagonist. He's a fraud and a scammer to core of his being and I think this episode demonstrates that much better than the polygraph in the ast episode did. To see him do some of the most evil things to preserve the people he's most loyal to. Sending another gay man to conversion therapy just to protect him and his was such an engaging character beat. It really builds off of everything from the last few episodes. He plays the game perfectly to secure him and his and that immoraity where he doesn't even flinch at doing the dirty work is what makes him an engaging protagonist.
And I think this episode kinda demonstrates what doesn't work for me about tim. He's a bleeding heart in a way that just doesn't make sense for the context he lives in. I've felt this way since episode one but WHY is Tim a republican and McCarthite. The show just never engages with this question at all. They make him the morally pure one whose always pushed to do the right thing and has no deft or tact or strategy about it. But he's also just hamily working for ant-communists.
And honestly more than the incomprehensible morality of tim what gets me about him throughout is just how cluess he is the whole time. like this man is dummer than rocks and stumbles through dangerous politics with no tact at all. The show doesn;t do enough to make tim's character 1. make sense and 2. be engaging. We kinda almost get there at the very end with tim quitting and elisting. even though it took too damn long I'm glad to finally see him disillusioned.
But as I whine and moan about how much this show doesn;t work some moments still hit. Again I genuinely love the a-morality of Hawk. He's probably his most despicable here and seeing him do duch aweful things for the sake of preserving his comfort is fascinating. And that final Hawk Tim moment before Tim goes into the army did pull on the heart strings. I've accepting that I'm probably along for the ride with this one no matter how much it'll infuriate me as it goes along
Review by TshepisoBlockedParentSpoilers2024-01-31T02:22:26Z
Everytime I think I'm done with this show it pulls me back in This time around it was character drama. As much as I rag on this show I cannot deny that Hawk is genuinely an engaging protagonist. He's a fraud and a scammer to core of his being and I think this episode demonstrates that much better than the polygraph in the ast episode did. To see him do some of the most evil things to preserve the people he's most loyal to. Sending another gay man to conversion therapy just to protect him and his was such an engaging character beat. It really builds off of everything from the last few episodes. He plays the game perfectly to secure him and his and that immoraity where he doesn't even flinch at doing the dirty work is what makes him an engaging protagonist.
And I think this episode kinda demonstrates what doesn't work for me about tim. He's a bleeding heart in a way that just doesn't make sense for the context he lives in. I've felt this way since episode one but WHY is Tim a republican and McCarthite. The show just never engages with this question at all. They make him the morally pure one whose always pushed to do the right thing and has no deft or tact or strategy about it. But he's also just hamily working for ant-communists.
And honestly more than the incomprehensible morality of tim what gets me about him throughout is just how cluess he is the whole time. like this man is dummer than rocks and stumbles through dangerous politics with no tact at all. The show doesn;t do enough to make tim's character 1. make sense and 2. be engaging. We kinda almost get there at the very end with tim quitting and elisting. even though it took too damn long I'm glad to finally see him disillusioned.
But as I whine and moan about how much this show doesn;t work some moments still hit. Again I genuinely love the a-morality of Hawk. He's probably his most despicable here and seeing him do duch aweful things for the sake of preserving his comfort is fascinating. And that final Hawk Tim moment before Tim goes into the army did pull on the heart strings. I've accepting that I'm probably along for the ride with this one no matter how much it'll infuriate me as it goes along