Damages: Season 3, Episode 5 “It’s Not My Birthday” (B)
That was quite a creepy introduction to the episode with Patty’s dream about the pony featuring guest appearances from Pete and Ellen, setting an extraordinarily serious tone for this episode. Patty was pretty formidable in this hour. Her fiercest and most impressionable moment was her casual delivery of the line, “Are you sure you guys don’t want a muffin?” Having Ellen maintain her ties with the firm through her sit-ins with the D.A.’s depositions and meetings is a good way of utilizing her, and the new associate candidate certainly frames her situation in an interesting light when she asks her how she came to stop working for Patty Hewes. While her performance is decent enough, I’m not overly enthusiastic about Tara Summers as Ellen’s replacement at the firm. She brings with her memories of a horrid excuse for a legal show, “Boston Legal,” which, even if I haven’t always been overly enthusiastic about this series, is infinitely poorer than this show in every respect. But that’s probably just the “Boston Legal” hater in me talking, and I should give her more of a shot. After all, Martin Short is absolutely astonishing in every one of his scenes, and it’s hard to believe that’s the same guy who starred in “Primetime Glick.” This episode features a new twist which goes in a heretofore unexplored direction but shouldn’t come as a huge surprise given the gravity of the situation on the show: the implication of another Tobin family member in a far more severe criminal act than fraud. Could she be the one who ultimately kills Tom?
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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