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First of all Everythingship is an adorable couple thing. I think it's interesting. But let's talk about that opening. The one that contextualizes the ever present narrative voice of Joe. I nearly peed my pants when you realized Joe was talking to someone. Bunch of scenarios popped up in my mind of who he could be talking to but I was surprised when the listener was revealed.

The show takes the very lovely tension it's built up and it keeps it taunt by adjusting the pacing in this episode things happen over month. We see the fall of Becks/Joe and after the fictional world shattering events of the last episode watching this happen was a surprise you don't expect things to change the lives of the characters twice.

On the creepy Joe front there's not a lot to talk about with regards to what he is doing. Which I think is important. The show is showing you that creepy guys aren't creepy 100% of the time. Sometimes it's a few red flags for a couple of weeks and then for a few months they seem normal or ideal even but in this story we see the constantly running stream of consciousness of Joe and we know that even though his actions seem fine his mental state is troubling. It's something the show never wants you to forget. Everything Joe does it intentional even when it doesn't seem to be. But there are SOME things to talk about like pee jar makes it's return as we see a character from last episode show up again here in a manner that feels like breadcrumbs that will eventually lead to him. We see Joe push a boundary that leads to an ultimatium with Becks and then we have yet another jump scare again with Joe as the target which is an interesting turn of events. In this case as with last case the person who caught Joe has the upper hand.

At the end of the episode we have another hint to the personhood and fate of Candace someone who is becoming more and more important to the narrative. There's a mystery to unlock there and that mystery might give even more context to Joe's nature.

Okay so let's talk about episodes 5 and 6.

Ron Pearlmen was an utter delight. I can't not say that. He always is. Just is. Even here in this lackluster role. That said the second half of the season is a noticeable upswing. I really like even this episode and what it's doing character-wise. Plot-wise it was nonsense but it's not like it's going anywhere anyway at least now I'm starting to enjoy the ride. The interplay between our leads is interesting even if the again the fact that they are spies is not. What I find fascinating is that there's more narrative flow and consistency in the titles and descriptions than there is in the show. It's like they prepared the show with the titles and synopsis long before they started filming. Because this

Couples Therapy (Naked & Afraid) - Oh, John. Oh, Jane. Our pair have been oh so bad at sharing and caring. Time to call in help -- John and Jane, get ready for: COUPLES THERAPY, what a gas!

Is an entire different level than what even this episode is. This is fun and goofy and comical in a way that not even at it's best the show is. Maybe on a scene by scene basis you might find something worthy of the type of gassing in the title/synopsis but most of it is very different. It's lazier, more laid back, less invested. Which to say yet again I don't put on Maya and Donald. They're solid but the writing and directing just don't care. It's weird to look at this show and say "Well at least True Lies the TV Show tried." I mean the True Lies show bombed like 70-80% of it's run time but at least they were going for something. The jokes were sometimes dumb but they came (a little too) consistently.

As for episode 6? Well honestly it's my favorite episode so far. It's fun in a way that few episodes have been until now. Holy snap it just occurred to me. Part of it is the missing intrigue. As I've said before this is a show with zero guile. I mean they're spies but spies in this world is a gig job. Anyone signs up anyone gets in and the AI runs you like an uber app. It's dumb and boring and uninteresting. But here... here they have to lie. They have to explain translate and keep things up in front of a therapist who, imo, Sarah Paulson made utterly adorable "Yeah! Whatever DID happen to Mya?" I died. She was hilarious. It's amazing how just getting the formula right finally lets everything shine. The spycraft is minimized but it doesn't matter because I'm having a ball watching Maya and Donald rehash their relationship. A relationship I actually care about this episode. "The therapist episode" shows the potential of this series.

Wow what a ride. An excellent entry for the predator franchise. Fantastic pacing. This movie takes you from setpiece to setpiece without dragging or rushing. Every beat felt like it was right on time. This was a perfect movie to just get immersed in. I'm glad I both watched it in Comanche and blacked out my other monitor and other RGB.

The Prey title obviously can be interpreted many way but for my money the most interesting (if not the most obvious) is that the Predator considers itself Apex and only hunts predators. It saves a mouse to kill a snake. It saves a rabbit to kill a wolf. It saves Naru to kill a bear. Naru is a compelling protagonist in a classic if possibly overdone situation of being a women who wants respect in a man's world. I'm not as familiar with Comanche history and culture in this day. Maybe women struggled to be hunters. But that aside the predator has an interesting dynamic. It's an older more raw version of the predator than we've seen before. And yet for a creature that comes from a society that respects "the hunt" they are as one character points out eventually "cheaters". They don't fight far they have superior technology that they abuse. They follow their rules when they feel like it. Naru takes every advantage to grow and prove herself until the climatic conflict where she's forced to use everything she's learned about the predator to try to survive.

There's a lot of reviews that seem confusing to me. They act like our hero arm-wrestled the predator. She spent a lot of time outsmarting the creature which was the whole point . You'll never out power a predator. If Arnie couldn't why would anyone. You have to be smart and think fast and that's what Naru does.

The biggest negatives were the animals. CGI animals never move right. I just have a hard time thinking these creatures especially the bear would fight like that but it's certainly handwaveable.

It's been so long since I've seen a styling masterfully directed movie from Guy Ritchie. This is far from the best movie of all time. Not even my favorite Guy Ritchie or Jason Statham film. But it's a movie that's told with such verve. This is a crew that isn't trying to do new experimental story telling at this point. They know exactly where they want to go. The tension and the pacing are prepared like a chef whose done this 100 times before. In the wrong hands you'd wonder why the narrative goes back and forth all the time but in Ritchie's hands this only serves to help the tension build.

This is your mother's pie, it's comfortable and delicious in all the ways you hope it would be. But there are misses here as there are in any film. Mostly in the writing. I like Statham and I think his presence carries the perfect amount of menace. There are a few poorly explained plot points like H taking pictures of employee badges (I think this was to do research on all of their names a point that leads absolutely nowhere). I understand H and I empathize with his motivation but I don't care about him. He's almost too much menace. A good Statham role is about 50-70% menace and the rest English bad-boy charm. H is about 90% menace leaving not enough room for anything else to matter. His previous characters have been meticulous and precise almost to a fault and you get to revel in his mastery but here we have that character interrupted forced to forgo the planning we know him for and in it's stead just a continuous forward progression. The rest of the cast is filled with characters that should have been fun. They have great names, solid backstories. In a John Wick style movie this cast would be amazing but here we could have used more of Ritchie's telltale dry gallows humor. For such a full cast filled with actors who could really chew the scenery they didn't get a lot to do. Taking everyone here and transplanting them in something like Boss Level would be perfect. Those characters were almost too cartoonish. I would have loved to see these actors get more to do.

Um, what happened? Who wrote this episode because they deserve a raise and everyone else needs to be fired because this episode so far (50%) is EXCELLENT. And the couple that is literally the worst is having a legit fight. But let's back up.

This episode picks up on the event that happened last episode Cal is missing. So the entire family is kicking up a storm. Dad wants to spy hard, Michella kidnaps the spy passenger (I don't even know when she learned Autumn was a spy because I must have fallen asleep last episode, something that happens regularly but I try to rewatch later to see what I missed) to find out what she knows. Assuming the infomation matches this is a reasonable act. Mom calls the cops which is a reasonable action given that she doesn't know what's going on.. wait is that right? Because Dad and Mom fight about this. Did he not tell her about all the stuff going on? I swore he did and she scoffed him off. Either way we get the "Don't protect me" speech which I usually agree with, but again I don't think he was protecting her because I thought I remembered him telling. If I have that wrong I have to reassess everything to do with Mom and how wrongly she's been acting. Not this episode though.

Dad: This is the drawing that is the only clue to where our son might be
Mom: I know this place
Dad: Are you sure?
Mom: it's made out of crayon I don't know.

wow. a great response to a stupid question. You have no leads. What do you care if she's sure. Then they have a drive that's just as awkward as it needs to be (with bonus product placement). Before they scour the town and have a legit fight. I mean a real legit fight over real legit things. I was so shocked that I suddenly realized the entire episode has been good and I had to get my notepad++ open just to type this mid-episode. They have a fight about whose fault it is that Dad moved out.

Mom: If we lived together this wouldn't have happaned
Dad: Yeah, I agree but it's not your fault
Mom: Wait what?!?!

Holy balls. Where do you get the cajones to say something that stupid hombre? I mean do you not like your wife? I thought you wanted to have her sleeping next to you? Because that's exactly how you keep her sleeping next to your replacement. She is rightfully offended at his presumption that she blames herself. After all it was his decision to leave.

Uh oh. I just hit unpause and it got stupid.

Dad: You kicked me out
Mom: You didn't fight for "us" (Ed: Ugh really?)
Mom: You left because you know what you did. You didn't make Cal the number one in your life.

Chicken-head says what? (I'd like to apologize for the unnecessary sexism. it's not cool. I was just super frustrated with the dialog) Like dang Grace you've been blocking Ben from doing what he needs to do FOR the family.

Dad: Everything I've done has been to keep Cal safe.
Mom: But no one else is blowing up their families why can't you be normal like them?
Dad: I'm a main protagnist do you not get how this works yet?

Alright the episode has gotten cheesy and product placy but you know what it hasn't got? Bad.

Dad: Mom, see this car? (Ed: because it's so ridiculous everyone needs to see it - https://i.imgur.com/2wkwI4G.jpg)
Dad: I think someone is following us. There's a single car behind us on this two lane highway with infrequent exits. Why else would a car be behind us.
Mom: But.. how can they keep up with us and not get lost we've been driving straight down the highway
Dad: I don't know but we're not driving a normal direction we're going straight
Mom: Does this car have any off-road features or anti-lock brakes?
Dad: I'm glad you asked that because all the base models come with both of those and for an extra $1000 we'll throw in linen seats.

Michella and Jared show up to do information exchange with the spy passenger Autumn

Mich: Thanks for switching to our side
Autu: You're welcome.
Mich picks up the information she brought autumn from the table behind her rather than from a brief case or any sort of envelope she would have been carrying on her. thus indicating she came in. Put the envelope down and walked in to talk to Autumn rather than just holding on to it for whatever reason.

Do the show runners even car about prop logic?

Mich: Did you guys get the location I sent you?
Mom and Dad: Yes.
Mich: I know it took you guys hours to get where you are but I'm coming too.. wait hours for me to get there don't try anything stupid like going to find your lost and missing son in the middle of winter.

But these are all relatively minor complaints in this show. I mean after this episode i can see what they were trying to do with Grace's character act. it just made no sense until now. In retrospect those earlier episodes are even worse because it was intentional. they need a firm steady hand to keep the characters and their motivations consistent and reasonable with the long term serial nature of the show. This shouldn't be impossible. But even the mythos ending was great. The hiker from Michella's vision isn't Cal in the future as I thought it's another time skipper, this time a hiker who skipped two years . He's an interesting addition to the cast and we've barely met him. This has got to be one of THE BEST episodes of the season.

Ed: Some of the conversations have been paraphrased for laziness reasons. Some have a bit of creative license in them

So now that Becks and Joe are over (1x07) we maintain that high digetic pace as Becks and Joe enter new phases of their life. We have a new character introduced Karen Minty and honestly I like her. I think the actress is attractive and I think the character brings a different level of interest into this circle of romance/stalking. For a while things seem fine and on the surface nothing is wrong but they encounter each other and like two opposing magnetic poles they are drawn to each other in a manner most would consider unhealthy. Of course it's nice well not nice but interesting to see Becks taking an assertive position in their relationship. In a traditional romantic comedy or romantic show this would be the episode where you would root for the romance in spite of the insurmountable obstacles in front of them but this is You and you, the audience, know Joe inside and out. It makes you feel awkward to be put in the position of hoping they get back together even though you know this is a bad outcome. This is an outcome that you shouldn't want to happen. Interestingly enough when Joe breaks up with his new love interest and she doesn't get immaturly emotional he's confused because as I've said before Dexter is psychotically devoid of emotion. Joe is psychotically additicted to emotion.

As with the last episode Candace comes up only this time not around Joe and it raises flags and makes for some interesting tension that taints an otherwise "charming" moment in ways that should ripple out to have massive repurcussions when events inevitably come to a head.

The worst episode of the season. This episode manages to crush everything wrong about Punisher in one episode. Luckily the rest of the season is excellent. But this episode has so many problems such as the overly idealized "perfect wife" who isn't a real person (which continues). There's violence in this episode towards the end that is just brutal for the sake of being brutal. It's what a teenager thinks The Punisher is about.

The Punisher is a character who understands everything about what he does. He's violent yes but controlled violence that's purposeful. He kills but he kills because he's already done the mental math and concluded that it must be done. It's his superpower as it were. Moral superiority. He doesn't agonize about whether or not to kill his enemy. He kills and goes to sleep because he unlike many superheroes has already suffered extreme cruelty. But Castle's not cruel and the violence in this episode can't be considered anything other than cruel. He doesn't need to destroy these men to save the boy and yet he does. The framing of the episode so far does everything it can to humanize the victims of his attacks. Which isn't what you do when you want your hero to kill people. The framing of the fight scene at the end implies this is an awesome thing done by an awesome guy. It's not. It's just an ugly violent inhuman version of Frank Castle even by comic book standards. When what made him so good in Daredevil Season 2 was his humanity.

Okay. I'll give it this. Whatever my gripes with the series as a whole, it ended well. Let's talk about episodes 7 and 8. The final pairing.

Episode 7 starts with "Infidelity" and ends with the third strike and a separation between Jane and John. Michaela Coel has what is probably the best line of the series. Which is a shame because unlike say the best line in Ted Lasso it has nothing to do with the show. It's a throwaway line about how "We're not bonding you have a gun on me". It's brilliant. In a world where no one seems to care about telling anyone they are a spy, it makes it very confusing to care about things like when spies take people hostage. Oh sure this time she turned out to be a spy as well but in the next episode the same thing happens but not. The show very clearly doesn't have any conception of what a spy is. To the point where they get missions and pretend they have to keep a secret but then they ... don't. Ever. pretend or keep secrets. This was a solid episode where I liked the interplay between them because they had something to do while keeping up that interplay. Sort of like how YouTubers hold microphones no matter what type or style or situation because they need to do something with their hands. This show needs to do something with it's background plot or the interplay between the leads just feels weird and pointless.

Episode 8 Our finale of course is going to have a lot of big moments. You have your requisite dramatic irony as two character try to kill each other for the crime of trying to kill each other a crime neither committed. It goes on for way way way too long as an audience member but it's balanced well with all the action. It comes to a nice conclusion fight scene wise. We find out who was really pulling their strings as well as who was pulling THEIR strings. And then we have an excellent cliffhanger ending. Once again we have a spy taking someone to extreme levels of violence but this time it's not a spy posing as a civy it's an actual civy. In a show that played this sort of thing for laughs that could be funny but this show has a mise that's fairly serious but doesn't make sense. You can't do that. As a counter example I just watched Jason Statham's Beekeeper recently. That's a movie that's ostensibly about getting revenge on tech support scammers from someone who has never actually seen a tech support scam. What I actually think happened is because of the complexities of the optics and racism they needed to modify the villains so they made them into wall street traders. Which is fine because this is a fairly goofy movie. Contrast that to MMS where everything about it is goofy (Title, Concept, Synopsis, even the poster) except the actual episodes themselves. Those are played far too straight to take with humor. So when the FBI gets a case that involves oval office members and they tell the Secret Service to put it aside? I can take that in a movie where some dude gets strapped to a car and driven off a bridge. But when you hold a gun to a Sotheby's agent and threaten to kill them except "nah it's ok". That's a little harder to take. It's a good episode. Top 3 of the series even, but almost all of the good is due to finale shenanigans. Not literally all but almost all.

I'm perfectly willing to watch a second season. I naively believe now that we have a lot of the awkwardness out of the way there's no way the second season is going to have the same problems that plagued the first. We'll have a more focused story because there's not a lot of story floating. We have direct questions that need to be answered now. I actually need to rewatch the whole thing because I think there's a lot of ending interstitial I might have missed. The one in episode 7 foreshadows some of the discussion about Hihi in episode 8.

A fun sex comedy that has survived better than most others. Denis is a brainiac, who tells the entire school, that he loves Beth Cooper, local hottie and dream girl to whom he has never spoken. Beth and her fellow hot-girl friends decide to follow up on this and take Denis out to a party. Thus begins a crazy graduation night, that involves parties, nudity, bullies and beer aka all the requisite ingredients for a teen sex comedy.

With Beth dragging Denis along to all the stops, while driving like a maniac, she has the perfect mixture of ingredients to be a manic pixie dream girl. I actually will not fight anyone, who thinks she is just another MPDG. That's perfectly fair. I think, however, she subverts in some interesting ways even if others might argue that maybe it is not enough. The whole point of this movie is that Beth isn't a dream girl. She's a real person. She drives like a maniac, not because she's quirky but because she's a bad driver. She makes bad decisions (that ostensibly she might need to be rescued from), but she feels trapped in her role as the hot girl everyone wants. She's even got personal family life issues that affect her outlook and perspective.

The opening of the movie is about Denis coming out of his shell but the rest of the movie is about him learning that Beth Cooper is more than the girl on his ceiling poster.

There's a side-plot that I hate. One that showed up in 1997's In and Out that I, again, absolutely despise. It was nearly subverted here, but the plot point is if someone calls you gay, it's because you're gay. No matter how you act or what you say or how you feel or what your life has been. They are never wrong. If someone calls you gay in act one by the end of the movie you will be gay. Rich, aside from the "Let's sword-fight with our boners" flashback isn't really that gay. Yet for some reason people look at everything he says as if it's really gay but most of it wouldn't be looked at twice if not for the speech and the non-digetic history. It would have been a better movie if Denis had been wrong on all of his speech subjects. The graduation speech would have needed to be a little bit different. But it would have given the movie a stronger point rather than just fleshing out Beth it would have shown that Denis was the one with blinders on. But hey maybe next time. Guess in 2009 we weren't there yet. Or at least that's what I might say if 2006's John Tucker Must Die didn't exist. There's an aspect of this movie that like it's main character puts Beth Cooper on a pedestal and now I suppose it serves as an archival representation of a collective way of thinking that isn't as mainstream anymore.

Hayden and Paul have solid Beauty and the Beast chemistry. I think there's a lot of stylistic choices the movie makes that I like. Unfortunately while it's certainly not as bad as some sex comedies I've rewatched from my younger days this one isn't nearly as great as i remembered it and this wasn't top tier in my rose tinted perspective to begin with.

Skylines aka Skylin3s is a bad movie. Just like Skyline and Beyond Skyline before it. Skyline was a movie directed by special effects guys that looks like a special effects demo piece. But between Beyond Skyline and Skylines they've managed to do the unthinkable. They've created potential. I don't walk away from Skylines thinking about how bad it is. My first thought isn’t about how bad it was that an effects-based movie will randomly and for no reason suddenly have CGI so bad that it looks like I myself made the movie. I'm not walking away thinking about the bad underdeveloped flat characters and sub-par acting. I left this movie and somehow my first feeling was disappointed. Disappointed that after flipping the genre 3 times no one made anything of ANY of them, the effect film wasn’t good, the action film wasn’t good, the sci-fi heist film wasn’t good.

Beyond Skyline took off from plotless movie (Skyline) and spend half of its own runtime setting up the last half of its runtime, which was an action set piece. It was even a fun action set piece. I liked a lot of it actually. But I was still mid headache from realizing that I spent half the movie watching things not happen. It was almost as bad at Pirate of the Caribbean 2. Beyond Skyline even sets up cliffhanger sequel bait that was, dare I say, compelling. I legitimately wanted to see what came next and considering the quality of the movies up to that point, I remain shocked.

Somehow Skylines, which opens in the first three minutes by completely skipping over that giant space battle/opera that was setup in the last movie, does the most to setup the world. It has the biggest and most interesting world to play in. And yet it fails on EVERY level to do anything with it. I mean for crying out loud there are human brains in alien machine bodies and none of this is explored. Do they still age? How long do they last? Do they have a unique culture? There's a hint that the hybrids were accepted as human but what does that look like? Do people have new relationships with these hybrids? Do they engage in old ones? Yet the movie then forgets all of that complexity in spite of the fact that the bad guy is represented as bad in part because he is prejudice against the hybrids in a world that we’re told completely accepts them. In the last third the film sets up the hybrids as killing fodder and so it is with zero remorse or thought they're slaughtered in fight scenes. There's no exploration of prejudice which must exist in this scenario. It can’t just be our main bad guy. After all it’s shown that he has help. His project is way too big to have done it himself. It's just a mish mash of ideas. Many of the ideas presented are good and interesting some of them would even make compelling dramatic sci-fi pieces all by themselves but in the Skyline franchise they're just completely empty of fleshing out. In spite of what the characters will say nothing matters and no one cares. The movie has two main hybrids Trent and Violet and they’re interesting. They’re actually interesting and unique characters. Violet is hardcore pro-rebellion even getting her tank body spray painted. Trent is the only hybrid we’ve seen created that’s still alive. We saw him as a human and saw him as a hybrid. We know what he was like as a human, we can imagine him transformed into this hybrid. And yet somehow the human characters are even more flat than them. We have a bad guy, we have a minor bad guy, we have the guy who hates Rose for what happened in the prologue, we have the specialist it’s all so rote and uninteresting set in a world that is teaming with interesting things the movie just doesn’t want to talk about. Like why do these aliens harvest brains only to refuse to use them what purpose do the brains serve the the bodies don’t? Why is the earth human relations the way they are? There seems to be a human government and yet there are encampments? Why? Who rejects humans? Why is Rose so hunted when she is clearly so despised? And that’s just shooting from the hip. In the corner of every scene is something interesting something that could flesh out the people or the world and the movie just doesn’t have time for that.

I can see why people might enjoy this one but it's just sad how much it could have been. The creature designs are solid, the alien voice isn't annoying. The main character is unique for reasons that aren't explained or explored. The bad guy is just the right kind of bad to be enjoyable except he's bad for no reason. There are baits and switch but it's hard to care about them because I don't care about the characters. As soon as you see the setup of a heist on an alien planet you know it's bad when you're mostly wondering which one will be sacrificed on the altar of "this is really dangerous. . see Person X just died". Our main character has so much potential for complex motivations and the movie skips over all of them. Rose hesitates to fire on the alien ship, and it could have been a moment of learning about the aliens about her about anything and instead it's only referenced in a throwaway motivational monolog. Skylines is the movie that couldn’t. Shame.

Wow what a whirlwind. This is not an easy show to watch. You really have to step into the culture and really handwave a lot of stuff as just being due to their culture. Not just the matching, but the dispassionate way in which they force the matching. The insistence on traditional aspects to the point where they don't make sense like hand writing your database rather than keeping them on a secure database. It's just maddening watching this woman scroll through hand written notes when a simple database query would be much more efficient. If you want to reduce people to number that's fine. But then what purpose does writing them down serve.. at that point just assign a number and use filters and queries.

That matches are all over the map. There's the villain girl, the secret gay, and the foreigner which in this case means East Indian from Guyana. There's definitely a degree to which some of this is just reality TV nonsense. Like without stepping on cultural toes. I think I can safely say that the last one has no business even looking to this particular matchmaker. She's very East Indian old school. Which doesn't even look close to what she wants. But hey it does get her on the reality show. Our villain girl is a typical rich kid but that's pretty much everyone here. She's not very friendly but I think that actually makes her super easy to match with. You find her a guy who doesn't mind being "bullied" by his wife and there are plenty of guys like that. There's so much to take in though.

Not bad I guess. Not really sure how you judge a true crime show especially not episode by episode but it was compelling. They do a lot to convince you this is "the real scoop" and two things stand up.

1. Subject director - There's a lot of scenes where the subject of the scene opens the scene by talking with the crew about what kind of shot they're going to make and what it will look like. This is I presume common in all reality TV. There's so much fakery in reality TV from people answering the door like they don't know a camera crew is outside to people wondering where people are when the everyone has their own personal camera crew. But typically they clip the part where the subject says something like "So I'll stand here and you can get me and the cat in the same angle". It's clearly supposed to make the whole thing feel authentic.

2. Both Sides-ism - Even though clearly the Tiger King is the "bad guy" and the Sanctuary lady is the "good guy". They keep enough ambiguity in some scenes. They point out that the Sanctuary lady also has people pay money to see her cats. I legit have questions about her operation. I mean I don't have any about TK's though that's just a bad spot but I am curious about some of the finer points of hers.

This is one of the funniest episodes so far.

I mean just such a delicate subject and then turned completely for laughs, successfully. A simple premise of Ryan getting fired leading to the passengers suspecting outer space might be fake. Oh it could have gone so many ways but everyone on this show is in three different levels of stupid so of course it takes the absolute worst result possible. In theory a show about passengers jettisoning themselves out an airlock is a pretty tragic event but this show manages to avoid even having it become black comedy and instead it's just barely blue. They're all so convinced they're on a reality show that one of them jumps out the airlock only to die IMMEDIATELY and become a frozen corpse. An event so shocking and honestly rather disturbingly depicted, that the only result for the level 3 stupid passengers is to of course double down and become even more convinced they can just walk off the ship. Which you wouldn't think would be possible. After all how stupid is everyone and yet it happens again. In the same "just disturbing enough to bother you" fashion, two more passengers airlock themselves. Including what was up to then one of the smartest "level 1 stupid" passengers. It's something that should make you feel grossed out or even teary sad and yet.. it's absolutely hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing at the sheer stupidity so much so I was practically shocked when it happens yet again for the third time. It's just.... so impractically stupid the scene works just because they don't quite hit diminishing returns. When the frozen bodies started bouncing off the shuttle :kissing_closed_eyes:. It does at least tell us the shuttle is very near by. That should introduce some interesting dynamics.

Lucy is being written as a bit bubbly this season. It feels weird. I mean I don't mind her being bubbly but it feels different from last season. Which I haven't seen in a long while to be fair.

This is a bad cop episode so it's going to make the ACAB section a bit harder.

HAHAHHAHAHA when Nolan kept her in the back of the car even during lunch. I'm still laughing about that.

Shame they had to end it on a terrible note. I mean wow we finally get a permanent cast member and that's good news for the show. But wow do I hate that last line. After revealing that her purpose for going backwards is to be in a steady 9-5 job so she can see her daughter, which is super relatable and commendable, she ends the scene saying "I'm going to get her back." A sentiment which doesn't apply when she left her family to go undercover. I presume the white man is the child's father and I fully supported her trying to get 50-50 custody and I even liked that he didn't freak out about that, but that last line hit all the wrong and unsympathetic notes that the entire scene was building.

ACAB
Ok so in the ACAB corner I think I'll highlight all the ways the show tries to make cops look better than they are. This is not normally a reflection on the show or it's quality. My only thought is that a gun runner who is escaping a busted buy is probably hyper sensitive to cop cars behind him. It strikes me a little unrealistic that they could just follow him and he wouldn't know. Or that his front gate people wouldn't notice the giant cop car under the overpass.

As an aside I noticed it in episode 2 and wish I had made the comment then but The Rookie really pushes this bodycam thing to a point where it feels silly. At least it's not as bad as last year when body game footage was at the wrong height.