S02.E02: A Kick in the Teeth

[paigow]

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The FBI needs Alec and his team to help stop a serial killer terrorising the suburbs; as the bodies pile up, Alec helps the police uncover what's really driving this murderer to his choice of victims.

Air Date: Oct 15 / 24 

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Max Lloyd-Jones as Simon Wylton
Miles Mussenden as Sam Brown
Megan Best as Izzy Coldby
Mark Brandon as Angelo Malone
Kelcey Mawema as Ava Winshire
Jovanna Burke as Brie Garland

Rene Rosado as Carlos Perez
Nikki-Lee Kriszta as Clarissa
Fraser Corbett as Doug
Juan Riedinger as Eric Dent
Matthew Caza as Jack
Tighe Gill as Jim
Jeanie Cloutier as Nurse
Jennifer Lines as Rachel Myers
Xiomara Lopez as Reporter #1
Paul Duchart as Reporter #2
Courtney Van Wirdum as Reporter #3
Mathew Yanagiya as Scott Turner
Mitra Suri as Serena Barton

[cfinboston]

This was just insanely weak.

Among the many problems, aren't sperm donors limited to reduce the likelihood of biological siblings meeting and potentially having a baby together?

The bigger and more obvious problem is sperm donors would be tested for genetic diseases. He wouldn't have gotten past screening. If nothing else, wouldn't someone along the way have sued the sperm bank if the baby had a hereditary illness?

It's the FBI. Marissa wouldn't find out she's being considered for a promotion because her former sister in law read some emails she wasn't supposed to. 

Why did Izzy not have any visible burn scars?

The new professor that hired Phoebe hired her to not work? How is Phoebe the literal opposite of every other overworked TA? And despite her wanting Phoebe to do nothing, she gives her a paper she plagiarized?

 

 

 

 

 

[jah1986]

Ugh, this show. I so want to like it, but they don't want me to. I do not care about the former intern, AT ALL. I don't care about the current interns. Can we just focus on the cases, and can the cases make sense? I was wondering about Izzy's scars but realized she was wearing sleeves (?) to cover/protect her arms. 

[Rodney]

This show is all right, as I like how Alec's experiments present many deep dives into the human mind and many human behaviors.

But they made a mistake by not getting rid of Phoebe and Rizwan.  They still add nothing.  Rizwan could maybe add more if they more directly involved him in the cases.  But there's really no use that I can see for Phoebe.  Which is a shame, because I do like the actress.

Edited October 21, 2024 by Rodney

[Trini]

Fast-forwarded Phoebe's scenes; ...and now there's a third assistant I don't care about.

So I thought this one was a little less clunky with integrating the behavioral concepts (seems to be a mandate to include them, unfortunately). Because of the apparent TV procedural requirement to introduce the killer before the reveal, I knew it was the technician guy from the start; even if we didn't know why yet.

Is cilantro on fried rice even a thing?

So are they setting up Alec getting his scars (magically!) removed? LOL - I knew Jesse was going to get tired of that eventually! But that bombing arc was done, so it's fine, I guess.

[seacliffsal]

Too many 'leaps' for this to make sense to me.  The first nonsensical leap revolved around cilantro.  I like cilantro but have never had it on Chinese food-and then to magically come up with bad teeth?  

Wish the interns were either gone or featured much less.  I also think they really stretch the story to include 'experiments' which are they magically able to pull together within mere hours.

And they were so obvious with the whole 'laser to remove scars.'  Yes, we get it-the scars take a long time to put on Jesse, but we hardly ever see his back scars and the facial ones are not usually that noticeable (to me).  Oh well.

I also think it will be difficult as the show mores forward to always have cases that involve the FBI-I think lower profile cases could be just as interesting and might not require such storyline stretches.

[peeayebee]

On 10/17/2024 at 11:49 PM, Rodney said:

But they made a mistake by not getting rid of Phoebe and Rizwan.  They still add nothing. 

I like the experiments, but the show needs to rework how we see them. What I picture is seeing them conducted in a completely different time period, i.e., they have nothing directly related to the case. But of course they tie in to the case in hindsight. We see Alec and his aides/interns/whatevers doing the experiment, then we see the case. Maybe it goes back at one point or another. I like sociology and psychology experiments, so not the way they do it on this show.

On 10/20/2024 at 12:50 AM, Trini said:

Because of the apparent TV procedural requirement to introduce the killer before the reveal, I knew it was the technician guy from the start; even if we didn't know why yet.

Yeah, immediately -- and I mean IMMEDIATELY -- when i saw the guy, I knew it was the killer. Maybe I watch too many of these shows.

[paigow]

On 10/21/2024 at 2:16 PM, seacliffsal said:

And they were so obvious with the whole 'laser to remove scars.' 

Just like Prison Break dressing Scofield in long sleeves and jackets so the make-up budget stayed reasonable....

[MarylandGirl]

I actually thought the new assistant might have been the killer, and his reaction at the crime scene was partly guilt. Maybe because in a past...Criminal Intent, I think? There was a woman sickened by a crime scene--she claimed it was because she'd never seen a dead body before--and it turned out that she was involved in the crime.

The cilantro thing bothered me, too. Couldn't they at least have gotten Mexican or Indian takeout, as those are cuisines that do frequently have cilantro in them?

I also could do without the assistants. Or, they need to find something else for them to do. I recall them being interesting in an ep where they were in a casino, as they were helping with the investigation.

And I really don't care about the one who's now working for someone else--I assume she'll end up coming back to work with Alec eventually? Or maybe there will be a case involving her boss being killed, with the student she plagiarized being a suspect maybe? (Note: I haven't watched episode 4 yet, so if something like that happens, this wasn't a spoiler!)

[greyflannel]

To be fair, cilantro (aka Chinese parsley) is common in Chinese food, although I've never seen it dumped on top of a dish quite like that before.