What I’m Watching: Lights Out

Lights Out: Season 1, Episode 7 “Crossroads” (B+)

This episode’s title is entirely fitting, since it represents the first real upswing that our hero has seen yet, and his first chance at actually achieving the comeback he’s been trying so desperately to pull off in order to get out of his situation. Of course, this positive success, mostly in the form of Theresa coming out to support him (“I’ve missed you”), comes at the same time as Lights recognizes that he’s losing an alarming amount of weight and fakes an eye test in order to get approved to fight by memorizing a line of letters and using his charm to get out of doing much more than that. This is a slippery slope that he’s on since it’s clearly going to come back to haunt him, though seeing him knock out his opponent and start really fighting back was absolutely exciting and enthralling. This episode was chock full of great lines, including Lights saying how many times he’s knocked out other people rather than been knocked out and uttering “hell” twice in a row in front of the nun and then apologizing. Robert had his own great line, said to Barry: “I’ll give you $50 right now if you go to hell.” It’s interesting to see everyone taking Robert to task for training Lights too hard, though I’m not sure how much good it will do. He’s up one at the moment, but he still has his diminishing health and a daughter acting out to distract him as he prepares for his big fight.