8.3/10. If this show was nothing but scenes of great singers performing onstage spliced together with scenes of superheroes getting into fights, I'm pretty sure i'd still be on board. It's a recurring motif for the show, and it works beautifully. Hearing and seeing "Aint It a Sin" play while Luke roughs up Cottonmouth's local storehouses was classic. And his assualt on Cottonmouth's central bank, featuring the sheer tank-like strength and prowess of Cage was a highlight, with some great cinematic direction and bloodpumping action that lives up to the great sequences in Daredevil and Jessica Jones.
I also enjoyed the showdown between Cotton Mouth and his counterpart over the arms deal gone wrong. There's a continuing sense that Cottonmouth has gotten in over his head here, and despite the bravado he projects, there are concerns and forces that threaten to overwhelm him before he can secure his empire. To the same end, the reveal that Scarfe, Misty's partner, is on the take and working for him is an interesting twist. Scarfe's little speech about how their jobs don't matter when there are gods and superheroes flying around is one of the more interesting bits of philosophy in Marvel's Netflix outings, and suggests there's something to explore there beyond his sniveling turncoat qualities.
We also get a kind of tired setup where Misty blames Luke for all that's gone wrong, (rightfully) connecting him to everything from the arms deal to Pop's death. Setting the pair up as an antagonistic to one another, especially with Misty blaming him for Pop's death, feels pretty perfunctory as they'll inevitably be on the same side. There's also a lot of hamfisted dialogue here, from Misty's basketball backstory to the conversation between Cottonmouth and Mariah (the two best actors on the show thus far) having to repeat cliches about their differing viewpoints on what constitutes success once more.
Still, it's a thriller of an episode, that sets up a simple idea -- Luke hurting Cottonmouth without getting near him to get revenge and prop up Pop's shop at the same time -- and explores the various things that connect to it, like Chico being inspired by Luke standing up for Pop and suffering for it. The ending of the episode feels a little too cheesily big for such a semi-realistic, street-level show, but we'll see how it's handled in subsequent episodes.
Here's where the show is starting to grab me. Great episode, and great ending!
Frank Whaley broke her concentration. Nice Pulp Fiction reference.
I didn't like the fighting scene too much , although the music is something that put an awesome in this show.
that ending though,i gotta say this serie is amazing and with every episode there's something offered to the table makes you keep going.
Okay one thing I'm going to say is making this show for me this far, Cottonmouth, everything this actor does playing him is perfect, the little chuckles he does at every little thing sarcastically, love him. Oh yeah and also a decent episode, that ending... 8.1/10
Worst chocolate bar eater, ever.
A bit disappointed about the Scarfe twist to be honest. It's so cliché to have our main good cop have a dirty partner and it may be because of Daredevil but I'm really tired of corrupt cops. Also I wonder what would've happened if Misty went with him to speak to Chico? It was convenient for him that she declined... still a good episode tho! The rocketlauncher at the end caught me off-guard haha it's so over the top, I love it.
Are you kidding ? Luke raids the safehouses, a single dude, by himself, punching, no gun, no killing, crushing guns with his bare hands, not taking the money... and everybody confuses that with the Latinos MO ?
But at last we got some action.
And Cottonmouth feels it's normal to take the money from the gun deal, not delivering the guns, while it is well known that things went south because of his guys, and makes jokes about no refund when the other party comes to collect ?
How did he even survive in this business ?
The Scarfe/Knight banter was pretty good. And they had to cliche up again by making him dirty...
Maybe I was wrong about Cottonmouth and unsophisticated messages... Seems weird though.
Revenge is a dish served black and in the night
Shout by Miguel CostaBlockedParent2016-10-01T17:22:38Z
Maybe that ending was a bit too much but I'm loving everything about this show so far.