this episodie was amazing amazing!
This one provided some decent backstory for AltClare and even generated a fair amount of sympathy for her from me...until she showed me that the same events that generated my sympathy had turned her into someone who could kill an innocent bystander with no apparent issues of conscience. I also found it interesting that, prior to her insertion on "our" side of things, she showed intermittent signs of warmth mixed in with the general coldness. Other than that, there were a few things that bothered me with this one. (1) There were ways that AltClare could have mirrored Clare's lost virginity that would not have involved potential exposure to STDs or pregnancy, either of which would have not only presented the usual problems but would have killed the mission. And there's the fact that someone who knew "her" could have seen enough of what was going on to report it back to Peter. I assume that the writers intended this to serve as more evidence of her automaton personality at that point, but I couldn't ignore the lack of common sense. (2) The lack of a team in place to assist her and the resulting "You're on your own" sort of mentality were more than a little hard to accept, especially given the importance of her particular mission. (3) Would it have killed Peter to stash those cigars somewhere else? Someplace far, far way? Or at least in a locked drawer? Or at least in a drawer that he freaking shuts all the way? Oh, well. At this point, now that Peter has made it clear that he knows what's going on with her, I'm all the more curious about how things will move forward with our not-so-happy couple...
Holy shit. There's sick people and then there's evil people, and for me the people who orchestrate this are downright evil. To her credit I'm only 95% sure Clare is playing Peter with the pity card, but even if she were being honest I'd still struggle to accept her change of heart - specially since Nadia's seemed more believable.
I love the entire series, but this episode was just spectacular. I love this show.
Was it swine flu that decimated one world but not the other? I don't get it.
I was never a fan of "origin story" episodes, as they easily tend to become filler episodes (the story barely moves forward and they often spend a whole episode with something that could be explained in a single scene). But what really ruined this one for me was the accidentally half-closed drawer with the cigars inside for the wife to casually notice and become suspicious about it. Such a cliché, that was just lazy writing, which is the exact opposite of what this show has got us used to.
Also, no Howard Alpha (I guess that's the name the show got for our Howard) fucking things up for Howard Prime on the other side. That surely has become quintessential Counterpart, by now.
I'm sure things will get back on track by next week. Unless they decide to give us an origin story for Baldwin...
Shout by kanootchaBlockedParent2018-03-05T08:20:43Z
Far better episode than the rest of this series which, until now, hasn't really wowed me, despite J.K. Simmons' generally excellent performance as Silk.