Des and his dad are so adorably exactly like each other, clearly Des is an excellent example of nature over nurture. Ergo, some fantabulous lines and scenes between these two.
I loved Des' very human, very natural vulnerability when he's waiting to see his dad at the top of the episode. So sweet and a somewhat new side of Des. I mean, he's always neurotic, but this was different. And lovely. And Rose's word of comfort to him, when he says 'What if he's disappointed in how I turned out' was awesome.
ROSE: Oh my god, he just got out of prison, I don't think he's going to judge.
DES (musing about why Jody attempted a break in): Maybe it's like a nervous tick. Except with explosions.
JODY: I'm such a clutz. Sometimes I fall off my chair, for no reason.
DES: Yeah? Me too!
JODY (in a brilliant display of dyslexia or was it a Freudian slip?): Freedom is more important than family Jake.
JAKE: What?
JODY: No, no. Family is more is important than freedom.
However, my favourite has to be this:
(Des and his Dad sitting in the interrogation room, their last moments before Jody goes back to jail or is it gaol in Newfoundland?)
DES: Well, I'm all grown up now, so you won't be missing any milestones.
And I think we're all wondering why Jake always calls to the person he wants to talk to and/or apprehend from an uncrossable distance. Well, the distance is crossable, but it would take more time than he has from the moment he calls out. I hope you're still with me, since I'm not sure I'm even still with me.... I know, it's a plot device – or maybe a drama device – so that we can all get to see Jake run fast through the colourful back alleys of St. John's, Newfoundland in that dashing leather coat and his jeans (does he own any other pants? Probably not, since he lives in his office. And not in a workaholic kind of way), but it doesn't make him look any smarter. Actually, it makes him more deserving the periodic smacks upside the head that Malachy delivers with such casual and hilarious aplomb.
I'm running a little hot and cold toward Leslie this season. Not her fault, I just don't love what they've done with her. Like, this episode, she was just so by the book, hard-ass cop, with no nuance, opposed to last episode where she was human. It's like not all the writers know what to do with her. Or none of them know what to do with her if she isn't hot for Jake. But I hope they figure her out at some point.
Love Rose's moment with Tinny when she says to the teen: Come on, you're not kidding anyone. We all care about Des and we know you care about him most of all. And in other great Tinny moments, the look she gives Kathleen when Kathleen opts to fix her own past problem involving the little blue book instead of banding together with the family to help Des with his kidnapping trouble, SO GOOD! Like, I disown you and I hate you and you so aren't my mother and go f*ck yourself all mashed into three second long cut. Nice.
Which brings me to Graham Abbey. Holy turn around in character for him Batman! Usually he's brooding and mean, which redeems him, or brooding and a lover, or brooding and funny, or just a lover or just funny or just brooding, but I've never seen him mean. Even when he was Chauvelin's right hand man – unquestionably a villain – in The Scarlet Pimpernel, he was funny. Especially when he was vomitting on the crossing from France to England. But I digress and possibly my I'm a fan of Graham Abbey colours are showing a little too brightly. He was SO MEAN! Is so mean, since I don't think we're done with him. However, I'm seeing parallels between the Rose/HUSBAND story with this Kathleen/Graham Abbey story. Anyone else? Funny, too, how Graham Abbey played HUSBAND'S son on The Border. Oooooh! It's like the Twilight Zone. Without monsters.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
One Angry Jake
First off, very clever, Team Doyle, very clever, the making of Jake as Juror Number 8 - a sweet little nod to Twelve Angry Jurors. So nicely played. On that note, have you noticed how the writing has gotten so much deeper/nuanced this season? I guess that's what happens when you've been around for a few seasons start running out of obvious plotlines. But I say, it's to the benefit of us all.
Once again, some seriously brilliant moments from Des. He's so ridiculous and loveable and larger than life and this episode was no exception. Here, to recap, are some of my favourites.
DES (after Jake calls him from the courthouse where he is sequestered as a juror on a murder trial): You're speaking to me in code. I have dreamed of this day.
DES (after Jake rips tape off his face): Ow! Oh my god! Ow! That seriously hurt...actually, that's probably really good for exfoliation. Can you do it again?
Related to the above moment, when Des is STILL taped to the pillar in the PI offices and Jake, Malachy and Rose are having a conversation about the case around him, and how Des is flailing his arms around, trying to get free. But the absolute best is how he grabs the phone and flops it toward Jake like a beached marine mammal.
Des attempting to disguise his voice while he and Rose are questioning Randall and his voice keeps cracking and breaking and doing all manner of weird, which spurs this dialogue.
RANDALL: What the hell is wrong with his voice?
ROSE: I'd say it's puberty, but I don't think he's reached it yet.
Oh, and seriously super cute moment when Tinny is being all depressed on the couch wearing those amazing plaid pants that would not be out of place in Monarch of the Glen or even on Lachlan of our beloved Hamish, and she asks Des to hug her. His comfort takes the form of this:
DES: There, there. *world's most awkward pat*
Now, I think we're all wondering, what on earth is Kathleen into? It's something seriously large, since she's been all secretive and jumpy since she walked into our world. Or rather, Jake's world. And the whole thing with hiding the envelope of...whatever under a couch cushion. Seriously Kathleen? It's a house where PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS live. They INVESTIGATE for a living. Do you really think they won't find it? Also, I'm sure someone in the troupe housecleans from time to time and that can sometimes involve lifting couch cushions. At least, it does if you're my mum. Also, the walking around the house with a knife, talking about buying a one way plane ticket, and asking Malachy if she can leave Tinny behind 'because she'll be safer' all does not suggest someone perfectly at ease and NOT into something large. There's a whisper from Rose that she thinks there's more to the middle Doyle child than meets the eye and Jake's practically screaming it. Only Malachy seems blinkered – to all his children, though he's starting to see Jake's intrinsically good side a little clearer. I think Kathleen and whatever she's into is leading us to the season finale, just the way Christian did.
Also, Kathleen, breaking up with Walter in the terrible, just-not-talking-to-him-anymore kind of way is a terrible thing to do. Shame, shame on you Kathleen Doyle! Walter may be a dicknose but he's sweet in his own shameless, excessive drinking, easily corruptible, stripper loving way.
And now, for the best part of the episode:
JAKE: Well, they're not exact likenesses.
Once again, some seriously brilliant moments from Des. He's so ridiculous and loveable and larger than life and this episode was no exception. Here, to recap, are some of my favourites.
DES (after Jake calls him from the courthouse where he is sequestered as a juror on a murder trial): You're speaking to me in code. I have dreamed of this day.
DES (after Jake rips tape off his face): Ow! Oh my god! Ow! That seriously hurt...actually, that's probably really good for exfoliation. Can you do it again?
Related to the above moment, when Des is STILL taped to the pillar in the PI offices and Jake, Malachy and Rose are having a conversation about the case around him, and how Des is flailing his arms around, trying to get free. But the absolute best is how he grabs the phone and flops it toward Jake like a beached marine mammal.
Des attempting to disguise his voice while he and Rose are questioning Randall and his voice keeps cracking and breaking and doing all manner of weird, which spurs this dialogue.
RANDALL: What the hell is wrong with his voice?
ROSE: I'd say it's puberty, but I don't think he's reached it yet.
Oh, and seriously super cute moment when Tinny is being all depressed on the couch wearing those amazing plaid pants that would not be out of place in Monarch of the Glen or even on Lachlan of our beloved Hamish, and she asks Des to hug her. His comfort takes the form of this:
DES: There, there. *world's most awkward pat*
Now, I think we're all wondering, what on earth is Kathleen into? It's something seriously large, since she's been all secretive and jumpy since she walked into our world. Or rather, Jake's world. And the whole thing with hiding the envelope of...whatever under a couch cushion. Seriously Kathleen? It's a house where PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS live. They INVESTIGATE for a living. Do you really think they won't find it? Also, I'm sure someone in the troupe housecleans from time to time and that can sometimes involve lifting couch cushions. At least, it does if you're my mum. Also, the walking around the house with a knife, talking about buying a one way plane ticket, and asking Malachy if she can leave Tinny behind 'because she'll be safer' all does not suggest someone perfectly at ease and NOT into something large. There's a whisper from Rose that she thinks there's more to the middle Doyle child than meets the eye and Jake's practically screaming it. Only Malachy seems blinkered – to all his children, though he's starting to see Jake's intrinsically good side a little clearer. I think Kathleen and whatever she's into is leading us to the season finale, just the way Christian did.
Also, Kathleen, breaking up with Walter in the terrible, just-not-talking-to-him-anymore kind of way is a terrible thing to do. Shame, shame on you Kathleen Doyle! Walter may be a dicknose but he's sweet in his own shameless, excessive drinking, easily corruptible, stripper loving way.
And now, for the best part of the episode:
JAKE: Well, they're not exact likenesses.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Mirror, Mirror
This episode was unique in that it took a new filmic turn, in the sense that it employed different film styles to keep the separate versions of the story straight. I don't know anything about film, really, but I was seriously impressed by the whole Film Noir-esque thing going on for Gordan Pinsent's version of events, next to the slightly overexposed, almost superhero/Marvel comics thing for Jake's version, beside Malachi's as the most normal looking one so that the audience could tell or surmise that he's the one telling the truth. So, seriously, go Team Doyle.
As always, Des has the bestest moments. The return of Des' thing for String Theory and how he thinks it will impress Tinny. Also, serious love for the moment Gordan Pinsent asked him about his Tinny troubles and Des says 'She just doesn't get my interest in particle physics.' The Des/Tinny attraction and them lying about it thing continues – golden moment when Des says 'did you know I'm single,' and Tinny replies by insulting his collection of sweaters and sweater vests – but it's getting harder to tell with Tinny, since to the careful observer of her obsessive texting, one could be led to believe she is now seeing someone.
The new plotline of Walter and Kathryn dating. While not entirely unexpected, since they bonded over Jake's not-daughter last episode, I really thought it'd be a single hookup or something like the Jake/Nikki illicit, hidden hookups that were on the go for a while. But it would seem not. However, we win because Jake gave Walter a black eye – well, it was really bruised and pink – when he slammed a door on his face.
Oh, and then there's a bit of cultural commentary when they address the French/English in Canada thing. Guy (French cop there to help arrest Gordan Pinsent) asks Jake: Is it inconvenient for you not being able to speak either official language? And then Jake is relaying to Leslie a conversation that happened in French and it goes like this: “Stylo!” “Livre!” “Crayon, oui!” To which Leslie says: why were they talking about pens and books? Jake says: Well, I had to stop French in grade nine, but my French teacher was seriously hot.
The last action of Jake before passing out after being drugged by Natalie was groping her breast on the way to the floor.
The ending of this episode is going on my list of most heartbreakingly beautiful television moments. If you recall, earlier we were told that Jake couldn't speak French. So, Leslie is sitting in the bar, looking lovely, and dressed for dinner with her sister and she says, in French, "you are my man." to Jake. After she leaves, Jakes looks longingly at her seat and says 'And you're the one for me.'
But, as the credits rolled, we were still left with the question: did they ever go golfing?
As always, Des has the bestest moments. The return of Des' thing for String Theory and how he thinks it will impress Tinny. Also, serious love for the moment Gordan Pinsent asked him about his Tinny troubles and Des says 'She just doesn't get my interest in particle physics.' The Des/Tinny attraction and them lying about it thing continues – golden moment when Des says 'did you know I'm single,' and Tinny replies by insulting his collection of sweaters and sweater vests – but it's getting harder to tell with Tinny, since to the careful observer of her obsessive texting, one could be led to believe she is now seeing someone.
The new plotline of Walter and Kathryn dating. While not entirely unexpected, since they bonded over Jake's not-daughter last episode, I really thought it'd be a single hookup or something like the Jake/Nikki illicit, hidden hookups that were on the go for a while. But it would seem not. However, we win because Jake gave Walter a black eye – well, it was really bruised and pink – when he slammed a door on his face.
Oh, and then there's a bit of cultural commentary when they address the French/English in Canada thing. Guy (French cop there to help arrest Gordan Pinsent) asks Jake: Is it inconvenient for you not being able to speak either official language? And then Jake is relaying to Leslie a conversation that happened in French and it goes like this: “Stylo!” “Livre!” “Crayon, oui!” To which Leslie says: why were they talking about pens and books? Jake says: Well, I had to stop French in grade nine, but my French teacher was seriously hot.
The last action of Jake before passing out after being drugged by Natalie was groping her breast on the way to the floor.
The ending of this episode is going on my list of most heartbreakingly beautiful television moments. If you recall, earlier we were told that Jake couldn't speak French. So, Leslie is sitting in the bar, looking lovely, and dressed for dinner with her sister and she says, in French, "you are my man." to Jake. After she leaves, Jakes looks longingly at her seat and says 'And you're the one for me.'
But, as the credits rolled, we were still left with the question: did they ever go golfing?
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