Counterpart: Season 2, Episode 1 “Inside Out” (B+)
I’m so thrilled that this show is back, premiering at a time that most others are going on hiatus. I’ve been predicting it to be honored the way it should from the Emmys and then the Golden Globes only to see it repeatedly ignored, and I’m at least happy that it’s back for more content. This premiere didn’t disappoint, introducing a brand-new character brought in specifically to serve as an outside source to investigate and draw out the mole. I didn’t recognize actress Betty Gabriel from her creepy role in “Get Out,” but she seems like a perfect fit to play Naya, the Muslim agent who we saw watching the video that explained the existence of the other world. We’ll have to wait until next week to see our Howard, but theirs played a relatively minor role in this hour, meeting clandestinely with Peter to make sure all bases are covered and coaching Emily back to some form of normalcy as her meets seems to have been deeply affected. Clare is taking on increased prominence, working with Peter to ensure their mutual survival but getting him angry when she tried to seduce him to pretend that they could be something like what they once were. I was surprised that Howard didn’t explode at her for coming over to talk to Emily, but he’s playing the part and making sure that he doesn’t get detected by anyone, even more so because he knows that his home is being watched. This show really is something special, and I’m very ready to experience this season.
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Friday, December 14, 2018
Sunday, March 25, 2018
What I’m Watching: Sneaky Pete
Sneaky Pete: Season 2, Episode 2 “Inside Out” (B+)
It really is incredible to see Pete and Marjorie work. The confidence with which Marjorie walked into the prison to point out that the man in Pete’s picture was actually Marius was incredible, and our Pete took it further when he swooped in to give supervisor Carol the meal of her life at the restaurant she always wanted to try, under the guise that she was an esteemed social media influencer, so that he could steal her keycard, break into her office, and make a call from there to get the real Pete released. They did what they wanted to, save for one obnoxious guard’s decision to have Pete dumped in an unusual way so that it wouldn’t come back on them, and now Marius is going to have to race against the clock to find the real Pete and spin him some story that won’t combust his entire operation. He also has to be careful about the fact that, unbeknownst to him, Taylor and Carly have his name, though Taylor is more preoccupied with fielding questions from Jennifer Ferrin’s Joyce and trying to protect his affair that might have raised too many red flags. Both Audrey and Otto aren’t in great shape, taking steps to conceal their actions in deaths that happened around them, and only Julia has things together as she uses her own connections to try to get the money laundering operation going, faced with a tough choice about how to impact her actual business in order to jump-start this very necessary side work.
It really is incredible to see Pete and Marjorie work. The confidence with which Marjorie walked into the prison to point out that the man in Pete’s picture was actually Marius was incredible, and our Pete took it further when he swooped in to give supervisor Carol the meal of her life at the restaurant she always wanted to try, under the guise that she was an esteemed social media influencer, so that he could steal her keycard, break into her office, and make a call from there to get the real Pete released. They did what they wanted to, save for one obnoxious guard’s decision to have Pete dumped in an unusual way so that it wouldn’t come back on them, and now Marius is going to have to race against the clock to find the real Pete and spin him some story that won’t combust his entire operation. He also has to be careful about the fact that, unbeknownst to him, Taylor and Carly have his name, though Taylor is more preoccupied with fielding questions from Jennifer Ferrin’s Joyce and trying to protect his affair that might have raised too many red flags. Both Audrey and Otto aren’t in great shape, taking steps to conceal their actions in deaths that happened around them, and only Julia has things together as she uses her own connections to try to get the money laundering operation going, faced with a tough choice about how to impact her actual business in order to jump-start this very necessary side work.
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