I dont know why I keep watching this show. I find the humor only mediocre. Samberg is so annoying.
KING SHARK! Great CGI for a TV show.
Becoming kinda dull for a while now...
Far and away the best episode Agents of Shield has ever produced. The only episode that can give it a run for its money is last season's spotlight episode on how May earned her nickname. There's a lesson there -- centering an episode on an individual story, particularly one that centers around one of the better actors in the cast, gives the show a focus that is often lacking when trying to juggle multiple intersecting plotlines at once.
This was a hell of a showcase for Elizabeth Henstridge. The production design team helped. (Production design as a plus in 'Agents of Shield"? I"m as surprised as you are.) The blue tint was a cheap way to sell the alienness of the world, but it totally worked, and the dessert topography really sold the desolateness of the environment and contributed to the sense of hopelessness in that world.
But Henstridge is what made the episode work. She sold the isolation, the small moments of crestfallen loneliness and discouragement, the little joys of success and friendship, the simple humanity of a survival story. Her burp, her wistfulness when she says "My dad would like you," and her conversations with an imaginary Fitz (a nice nod toward Fitz doing the same routine last season) all made her feel like a three-dimensional person in an extreme situation. There's a sense that this is Marvel's take on 'Castaway' or even 'Last Man on Earth', and doing this kind of laser-focused narrative requires a lot of the actors involved. These types of stories are, by necessity, character pieces; Henstridge was more than up to the challenge, and it deepened my appreciation for Simmons.
The actor who played Will was pretty good as well, and while his story could have felt too cliche, it worked in the context of the episode as a whole. Really, this felt like a well-structured science fiction short story as much as it did an episode of an ongoing series, and that's not a knock. Knowing Fitz and Simmons's relationship helped give certain moments more weight and significance, but it could almost work as a standalone piece. That's how strong and self-contained this was.
There was also a legitimate sense of menace from the planet. The zomibe-like astronaut, the tentacle creature, and the dust storms all suggested something frightening and alien about this world. It prompted so many great emotional moments from the two characters stuck on it. Doing an episode like this, so unlike AoS's usual M.O., was something of a gamble, but it paid off like gangbusters here.
The acting in this episode is shit, someone really should have kept Maisie Williams away from those flames, that degree of wooden acting is a health and safety nightmare.
Not one of the good episodes.
Annalise: I caught Wes and Nate together last night.
Frank: Screwing?
Annalise: No, working together behind my back.
A nativity scene with zombies who came to praise the newborn baby Z-sus...
That's genius!!!
Actually it was surprisingly pretty good! Very familiar to the first season, but soundtrack is far better and the plot is more organized.
Man, that serie is getting better and ever better every single episode !!! I wish the walking dead had such action packed episodes, but more realistic.
That serie is fucking hilarious AND well thought! Becoming one of my favorite one
Fi-na-lly. *sighs*
The madness that was Falling Skies is now finally over.
The season started off interesting, but the stalling to get anywhere in SL is just plain boring, I mean, it has been what, three episodes where nothing gets solved and we just get stuck with whining from the characters?!. Also, as far as I'm concerned, Theo, Hayden and Lian can all die or go away forever, they are annoying as hell.
And Scott is an idiotic jerk for believing Theo like that and not even give Stiles a chance to tell his side of the story.
The ending...? Wow! So gore.
They should change the name to Under The Influence of some annoying a$$ you-know-what
Probably the worst episode ever... it's getting so much worse..
Somehow this episode was lacking. Sure, it didn't have that much "action" in it and was rather focused on Hannibal and Bedelia and their relationship instead. Still, something was off. The long shots on details, like dropping blood from the nose of a rabbit or the water from the faucet felt kinda out of place. That's weird as those are a trademark so to speak of Hannibal.
Maybe it would have been better to try to establish the new location or rather the new circumstances first/in the first half, these are very different to before.
I am sure, the upcoming episodes will deal with the relationship between those two in more detail but as it is in this episode I am not too happy how it opened the season. It's not a bad episode but given the previous two seasons it's just lacking.
... and boredom reigned supreme
I need next season to focus back on the cupcake business. Or to create any growth at all for Max and Caroline. This year was trite.
Malcolm: And no offense none of you are particularly good actors.
Tell me that was not funny :-P
Aww I love this Dark Swan turn of events! Let's see what next season brings! I hope they'll make a better job than this year! This season was just meh
It's almost 2016 and they haven't fixed the numbers of the episodes yet?
