S02.E05: Anatomy Of A Fall

[paigow]

Air Date: Nov 12 / 24

Simon's mother asks Alec to help stop a suicide contagion when a third student death strikes the campus; Alec asks Marisa to help when he thinks there might be more to the case; Phoebe struggles with her next career move.

Edited November 2, 2024 by paigow
ETA: Revised Title... Plot Summary

[AnimeMania]

They just changed the order of the episodes, showing originally Episode 6: Anatomy Of A Fall, before showing originally Episode 5: Ghost Ship.

[AnimeMania]

Originally Season 2, Episode 6 

Meg De Lacy as Summer Bennet

Jeff Meadows as Davis
Jacob Shoemay as Taylor
Anthony Timpano as Phillip
Megan Peta Hill
Allyson Leet

(Possibly: Next New Episode: November 26, 2024)

[paigow]

Alec is bulletproof... Nepo Baby on the team guarantees unlimited budget for more ambitious experiments... Mommy & the Governor are likely BFF...

[Trini]

This episode was fine, I guess. Still not paying attention to whatever's going on with the research assistants.

All the additional steps the sorority sisters supposedly took to make the victims death look like a suicide was dumb. But it was great to see Meg de Lacy again!

[paigow]

1 hour ago, Trini said:

All the additional steps the sorority sisters supposedly took to make the victims death look like a suicide was dumb. 

These girls should have enrolled at How To Get Away With Murder University

[cfinboston]

The writing on this show is ridiculously weak.

How the AF did the girls get a corpse  out of the house and into the car and up the clock tower? Nobody noticed Kenzie was dead? 

Then they somehow are strong enough to heave a dead body away from the tower? Wouldn't they just sort of drop her?

It strikes me as stupid that Dr Mercer is continually having students run these experiments. He's an expert in the field, wouldn't he already know the random things the assistants find?

Are there any lawyers or LEO on here? I'm wondering if Marisa could have claimed exigent circumstances and searched Kenzie's room, because obviously she knew the girls would go clean it up and destroy evidence?

Minor flub. Virginia doesn't have statewide ballot initiatives. The only statewide ballot questions are constitutional amendments and those are reported from the Legislature, they're not something for which you'd be able to collect signatures. (Super geeky knowledge. I used to work as a political organizer.)

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 14, 2024 by cfinboston

[Rodney]

Knew that the killer would be a woman.  But I didn't see it coming that it'd be the doctor, a past sorority sister, who'd done it.  I was expecting one of the current sisters to be the culprit.  I was just surprised that the doctor didn't say a word when she was arrested.

Was this the first time that Marisa found the key detail that cracked the case?  It's usually Alec who does.

So Myers figured out, obviously, that Phoebe turned her in.  And she apparently got her blacklisted from other departments as a final "fuck you."  What a horrible person.

But Phoebe's back with Alec, who's allowing three interns/assistants to work with him now.  If nothing else, I'm somewhat interested in seeing what dynamic she has with Simon.

Speaking of whom, I'm finding Simon more interesting than Phoebe or Rizwan combined since at least he comes with a backstory.  The story of his brother made me tear up a bit.

They need to play Kylie opposite Phoebe more often.  She really livens her up in their scenes together.

[paigow]

4 hours ago, Rodney said:

They need to play Kylie opposite Phoebe more often.  She really livens her up in their scenes together.

All of her scenes with Alec & Marisa are basically Little Sister advice or Tech exposition... Phoebe is the closest representation of a peer - peer relationship [since she burned all her hacker bridges]

[Trini]

6 hours ago, Rodney said:

They need to play Kylie opposite Phoebe more often.  She really livens her up in their scenes together.

Or just more Kylie in general. They need to have more of her and Alec as well.

[peeayebee]

16 hours ago, Rodney said:

Knew that the killer would be a woman.  But I didn't see it coming that it'd be the doctor, a past sorority sister, who'd done it.  I was expecting one of the current sisters to be the culprit.  I was just surprised that the doctor didn't say a word when she was arrested.

I immediately expected the sorority sister who came up to Alec and Marisa with the petition. And then as the ep progressed, any of the sorority sisters seemed too obvious. So THEN I suspected the den mother (or whatever she's called). The doctor was a complete surprised.

I always enjoy the sister. I hope the show finds more and better ways to use her.

 

[paigow]

On 11/13/2024 at 11:47 PM, cfinboston said:

Then they somehow are strong enough to heave a dead body away from the tower? 

They are cheerleaders, strong enough to do team lifts... so this is quite plausible

[MarylandGirl]

This was...OK. I feel like the show keeps having good ideas (the assassin at the wedding being another recent one), but less good execution. I'm just not connecting with it for some reason. I'm even interested in behavioral science.