Westworld:
With Neo-Delores gone this
episode I came to the realization that that storyline is my favorite this season. Weird they put her in the “Previously On”
when she was not in the episode. But it
was cheap they led us to believe Caleb’s daughter was captured only to have her
escape at the end so we would know that was not his real daughter at the very last
moment. But what exactly is Charlotte
going to do with him? But welcome back
Bernard who is apparently now Dr. Strange living out every possible outcome
looking for the one. But at least Dr. Strange
did not take years (decades?) to do it.
The Chi:
Oh joy, a Christmas episode in the squelchering heat of
July. The one problem with the switch to
shorter season is that we rarely get holiday episodes anymore, but when we do,
it just feels awkward watching those months away from the actual episode. I
took the way under on Emmitt’s celibacy, but is he really going to break it
with Keisha?
Flatbush
Misdemeanors: Okay, that
funeral was funny. But c’mon, instead of
wearing a salmon suit, wear darker, less dressy attire. A dark shirt seems better than a salmon suit.
In
the Dark: Murphy Mason,
this is your life. Everyone that has
ever been on the show popped up in the trial… well, one person was conspicuously
missing. I have a feeling she will end
up being a surprise witness in the next episode. Will she actually admit to be the one who
killed Nia? But it was really annoying
to see Murphy and Darnell have it out in the courtroom when we know they are
going to be chummy chummy later in the season before he gets shot.
Only
Murders in the Building: "Soooooo,
how was prison?" Martin Short is just one of the best at line readings.
Casting the evil girl from Fear the
Walking as Lucy was an... interesting choice. But she works better than
some of the other casting this season. I felt really bad for Mabel when she
started feeling around Lucy like how Charles and Oliver feel around her. I
found it really interesting that Del the Funky Homosapien sampled the Brazzos
song because whenever someone says Mrs. Gambolini, I always hear it in the
cadence of Mistadobalina. So maybe that is not a coincidence.
Okay, onto theory corner. I have suspected Howard
ever since spotting his black eye in the first episode and I believe his Nina
punched him excuse as much as his the cat did it excuse. Though we have now
seen the killer twice (or at least presumably it is the killer); last episode
attacking Bunny and this episode with Lucy inside the wall and neither really
looked like Howard to me. Maybe I need to go back and look, but to me, it
looked like a tall thin man, who could only mean one person: Jane Lynch.
I did put the presumably in parenthesis because,
why, after killing Bunny, climb a couple floors to Charles' floor? Unless they
live on that floor (like Nina but after threatening to get revenge on Bunny's
killer, likely not her). Or were they already going to plant the bloody knife?
Now I definitely need to re-watch to see if the killer had a bloody knife. And the (presumed) killer sneezing also makes
me think they are probably not a cat guy, who has been my guess most of this season.
Motherland:
Fort Salem: Shocker,
the president is still alive. But why
let the vice president take power?
The
Challenge: USA: You got
to love any challenge that involves heights and being smart. But the elimination was confusing, that one
dude seemed to be peddling the hardest but his team always seemed behind. Was his teammate that bad? I feel like there was something they were not
showing up. The other team failed
getting the memorization in one try too.
Ms.
Marvel: Like most Marvel
properties, this show just sputtered to the end because they have a third act
problem and a villain problem. I did
like the Home Alone montage and everyone just randomly popping up at the high school
but the fight itself was meh because they never really seemed to figure out who
the bad guy was. Kamron kept going up to
the line but never crossed it. Damage
Control was doing shady things, but it was mostly just the one agent who has
not gotten much screen time. But overall,
the still ended up being the second best Disney+ show after Loki, and probably
the second best thing in Phase 4 so far.
The
Old Man: So Jeff Bridges is not playing the titular character? It is not even John Lithgow? That was a plot twist I did not see coming.
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