MissLucas

I've been a fan since 'The Hour' which was an absolutely fantastic show with a brilliant cast (Whishaw, Peter Capaldi, Dominic West, Romola Garai, Anna Chancellor). There was a brief scene with Capaldi that still haunts me. I'm still miffed at the BBC for cancelling the show after only two seasons. It takes place during the Cold War - so lots of espionage going on. Spies and Paddington are the constants in Whishaw's resume.

Urgh, this was not the episode to correct errors in my cable-knitting. The COTW flew right over my knitting needles but I enjoyed all the interactions between the main players. Once Matty's house of lies comes crumbling down the fall-out will be epic. I love how the writing adds those subtle layers of self-doubt to Matty. And now we know what Senior meant when he called out Julian earlier over the failure of his marriage. TV rules says that Julian must have been sleeping with someone at the firm and that would indeed leave Shae - again according to TV rules. I do hope for a rule-breaking though.

As long as Kasie is not running around the building yelling 'Parker, Parker, Parker!' I'm okay with her. Abby was fine in the beginning but over the years she started to grate - especially her knack of forcing her coworkers to do things they did not want to do. Which I never found as endearing as the writers seemed to do.

I agree this was all over the place and only the acting and the settings were holding it together. I liked the narrative at the core: Sam and Helen's relationship and how it unfolded but even that was at times in danger to get sucked into the many, many gaping plot holes.

I decided the best way to enjoy this show is to figure out who gets the idiot ball in each episode. Congrats Michael, you're this week's winner! You have a little daughter for whom you presumably care a lot about yet you invite the guy who just told you that killed around 35 people (and you were present for some of those killings) back in your life. Runner-up is Helen who never wondered why a CIA agent would turn within three minutes and never opened that damn envelope Reed gave her.

I was intrigued by Doctor Grace's approach to Lily. TV standard is going to fish for repressed memories, her insistence that that could cause false memories was quite refreshing because the controversy surrounding the issue barely makes it into tv. I also liked how she separated Mum from Lily and respected Parker's wish to keep whatever had happened with his mother to be shelved for the time being. Her suggestions for Parker to ignore the past and deal with the present moment when Lily appears sounds as if she's practicing gestalt therapy. As for the car murders - that was really cold-blooded and I would like to say far-fetched but that might be naive. I enjoyed the other agencies having a field day with the BOLO. And I'm with Parker - stop the elevator abuse!

Helen simply calling the baddies without any precautions was beyond stupid. I enjoyed the bit of Tarantino in the car with the three assassins and the backstory of Sam and Helen's friendship. Despite all the annoying flashbacks to their respective twu luvs these two are show's OTP. Sam's first wet job being his Dad was soo cliché it almost hurt. The acting in this show is top-notch and what keeps me watching, too bad the writing is not of the same quality.

Well, we got an explanation why Sam knew the names of the two killers from the first episode. And it definitely sounds as if Daisy/Helen let her stepsister take the fall for her stepfather's murder. So far so good. The warehouse scene was eerie but the coincidences in this show are really getting a tad much. So the guy Sam failed to kill has Kai-Ming, while Wallace's colleague seems to be on the mysterious video. The micro that was able to pick up one single conversation in a pub full of people was ridiculous and completely unnecessary. Helen could have waited for her hubby outside the pub under some pretense, and have him bugged while giving him a hug. Her entering the pub in her Carmen Sandiego getup - without knowing if he was already in there - and risking some of his co-workers recognizing her was stupid. It was just done to give us another scene of Helen pining over her lost love - and those are already the show's weak spot. We know she loved him, the bullet to his killer's head made the point better than all those Chiaroscuro flashbacks.

What about her fingerprints in Jason's rooms amidst a murder scene? Was there a clean-up I missed? And how did Sam know where to find her in the first place? And Sam was out of town for seven years yet still knew the two assassins names. I'm intrigued but not entirely sold. And while I'm interested in the Sam and Helen's backstory I could do with less mopey flashbacks . Helen was in love with Jason, we get it. And I guess Michael somehow figured out that Sam was not in insurances. I'd rather know why Sam is so fiercely loyal to Helen.

Late to the party and most things have already been said, so I'm just going to add how much I loved the Christmas Sweaters with Lady Justice in Santa get-up!

And how come weeks of dumping trash into said abyss never hit anything but one cello case did?

I'm still not sure how you can turn a project to develop an atomic ICBM into a hoover but props for being quirky 😁I actually think it would a cool idea for a mini series going into detail how to pull that off with enough crazy characters to make it work. The soccer thing was weird, but I enjoyed yet another appearance of the elevator that just won't get a break (by brake abuse).

I like the backdoor pilot for The Night Movers! Yeah, I prefer more rustic scenery but this had an interesting twist. Although I'm not sure why Lucas did not contact the FBI in the first place instead of running to a Youtuber - kids these day! So, we got the Big Bad Wolf err.. Whale. He does sound a bit like Daddy dearest, so Colter might be able to exorcise some demons in bringing him down. Call Dory back!

I don't think she wanted to kill her grandchild, rather take her under her wings and groom the girl to be heiress to her evil throne. I enjoyed it - even though the plot of agent needing to protect annoying target isn't my favorite. It helped that they didn't string out the antagonism for too long. And I'm always happy to see Katrina Law showing off her martial arts chops. Evil grandma walking off might be a stretch but I'm in a generous mood today.

Colter and Velma are finally meeting, and within 5 seconds the sweet scene turns into product placement LOL! Man, this one requires a lot of hand waving. I mean after the way Colter was brushed off by the cop I could understand why he did not fill him in on the gaming camera. But the rest was pretty iffy and as usual we don't see any of the legal aftermath. I know it would be boring but given the amount of hairy situations Colter lands himself in I wonder why Reenie even bothers to land other clients. I have no idea how Barclay managed to find the statues. I assumed he he was trained to find landmines, i.e. he was trained to detect the scent of chemicals. Benin bronze statues *props for not going down the well trodden path with those artifacts* don't have that scent. If he was a guard dog simply* going for Miller's scent attached to the statues he's one of a kind. Scent trails last for a couple of days at best. Not to mention that the statues were buried. *It's not simple and contrary to what's shown on tv dogs need to be especially trained for that too. But the scenery was great as usual.