There wasn't a single moment of this one that wasn't either (a) a complete waste of time or (b) stupid beyond belief or (c) both at the same time. My faves from this one:
Let's start with a minor, but annoying one. Olive knows when the cult is gonna be getting more disposable coffee cups and the response is: "How did we do anything around here before you joined us?" Um, there are maybe 50 people in the cult; just buy a sleeve or two of disposable cups at the local grocery store, Einstein. You don't need to "order" them.
Every word and action from Prince Charming when he showed up at the hit-and-run site.
Leap #1: A suspect's "They're just some guys from the club" IMMEDIATELY becomes Michaela's "We believe this is the HEADQUARTERS [emphasis mine] of a violent group."
Leap #2: Michaela sees a blue truck and, without ANYTHING to back it up, IMMEDIATELY tells her boss that "That truck was involved in a hit-and-run with another passenger."
Jared gives the bad guys one tip and THAT SAME NIGHT gets to meet one of the group's apparent bigwigs because...they're grateful AND stupid, I guess? And that's on top of the fact that Jared just HAPPENED to find that bar and that bartender to get the hots for in the first place. Now it's possible that all of this has been a setup (undercover op) since BEFORE he met the bartender, but for now, it's going in the stupid pile since I doubt that the writers have it in them to make any of it make sense. Besides, even if Jared IS working undercover, the bad guys are still being really stupid here.
Prince Charming's actions at the very end.
Meanwhile, we get NOTHING this week from the awesome and lovely Saanvi, and only a passing mention of her progress. And there was a lot of soap opera stuff that I skipped entirely. So yeah, this one was horrendous.
Review by LineageBlockedParent2020-02-04T18:54:21Z
It seems like one of my predictions from two episodes ago is starting to appear correct. Jared knows Tamara and her brother, Billy, are X'ers, somehow, I guess his rank of a detective is beginning to hold true, and also that the bar is a hangout of X'ers, altogether, I imagine, so due to his conversation with Michaela, he's deciding to go on the path of proving his worth to her by embedding himself within the deeper ranks of the X'ers, and take them down from the inside. It's a decent plan, I'll give him that, but problems are most likely going to arise to create and add more drama. We'll have to wait and see. Then there's Ben, going over to the dark side. The ending was pretty cool, I admit. But the best part of the episode was undoubtedly Ben's obligatory "dramatically taking off his glasses" moment, the scene where he drove up to where the car accident happened, opened the door, left it open, like a boss, dramatically stared a second or two, then dramatically took off his glasses, in a swift motion. And that wasn't the only time he did it in this episode. You are too kind, writers, to bless us with more than one of those moments. We are undeserving of your generosity. It can never be a Manifest episode without at least one of them. After all, it's what we're watching each episode to see.