The first one I’m mixed on. It starts off really strong, has some great moments, and Joyce’s and Irene’s actresses are killer. But the politics are muddled, falling into trite MCU devices of ‘hand the revolutionaries do something cartoonishly bad to show ah! They are not the RIGHT kind of revolutionaries! Here’s a dorky FBI guy for Charlie to bond with instead. And if the last terrible thing wasn’t enough, let’s do ANOTHER terrible thing!’ It’s just hamfisted and lazy when the actresses are so good, the concept of the people Charlie bond with being the killers is so good, and it starts so strong. There’s still some great comedy, the two guests kill it, but there’s a much more interesting and nuanced story that could’ve been told here. As is this is exactly the type of episode right wing sites use to say Poker Face is a conservative power fantasy, actually, and you can kind of see their point.
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The first one I’m mixed on. It starts off really strong, has some great moments, and Joyce’s and Irene’s actresses are killer. But the politics are muddled, falling into trite MCU devices of ‘hand the revolutionaries do something cartoonishly bad to show ah! They are not the RIGHT kind of revolutionaries! Here’s a dorky FBI guy for Charlie to bond with instead. And if the last terrible thing wasn’t enough, let’s do ANOTHER terrible thing!’ It’s just hamfisted and lazy when the actresses are so good, the concept of the people Charlie bond with being the killers is so good, and it starts so strong. There’s still some great comedy, the two guests kill it, but there’s a much more interesting and nuanced story that could’ve been told here. As is this is exactly the type of episode right wing sites use to say Poker Face is a conservative power fantasy, actually, and you can kind of see their point.