A bit of a lackluster episode to have waited two weeks for. Leland's part was the highlight.
Instead of focusing on what I should, I’m zeroing on stuff like… David’s computer.
Looks like a standard issue, trauma-resistant, military equipment… but it has iOS as the operating system.
How?
Li Jun Li! I was very pleased to see her from my past most favorite spiritual show. (Exorcist) That was an smazing series and pretty truthful in aspects. I was disappointed when it was canceled.
Another way to attack, ummm prophecies or luck
Like the last episode this feels not very cohesive. It's lose articles thrown together. I mean it's bad and cliche when our protagonist is looking up family and then the story that episode is about family. It's super cliche and especially in procedurals but it does at least suggest things happen for a reason. Here we have the opposite. A prophet and a family invasion I don't need these stories to link per se but as storylines right now they feel disconnected from everything.
This time we have decent crumbs, there are bits and pieces that could be interesting but nothing happens. In some cases like the prophet filling in the missing and hidden prophecies that might become important later. that might become a central plotline for the series. I'm willing to sit on that. In other cases Kristen gets advice on how to deal with her dreams of George. Now the problem with this is Kristen already knows how tell if her dream with George is real. She did that BRILLIANTLY in the second episode where she used the fact that she can't read text in dreams. That said even though it's redundant it works like gangbusters. You want something to happen. You want her to confront George and ask his purpose as she was told to, but she doesn't. It's just a weird sequence that doesn't do anything with the meaty setup it has. I mean maybe George is real and she controls the dream but not him. Maybe George isn't real and she can do with him what she wants. Maybe it's a mix. But nothing. It was a perfect setup and an utterly failure of a scene. It could have even been ambiguous like maybe George pretends he is under her control, but it just fails.
the prophet barely manages to be a decent setup. I wish she could have been more. Taking her away didn't feel like social commentary, it felt cheap and reductive.
Michael Emerson is not in my favorite role here as the psychopath Dr Leland Townsend, but he's good. I don't like his character though. It feels like a step down. I want him to have more menace either obviously or not obviously. It was nice to see Kristen act when they cross paths but it sucks she can't make their relationship more clear to her mother. If she just explained who he was and what he did this is an open and shut case but instead she gives half the truth and it sounds like she's jealous and it's just ridiculous.
Annoyed that Kristen keeps secrets about Leland & George away from her team.
She's going to wait until something tragic happens before she allows them to help her.
This episode made absolutely no sense, unless I missed something along the way?! :type_1_2:♀
Shout by Drew4meVIP 2BlockedParentSpoilers2019-11-12T18:56:38Z
Wow, first episode I felt compelled to comment on! Starting to think things are drawing together here, and I think we just saw a big plot twist! I delayed watching this ep cos I didn't like the sound of the outline, but now!
Who else thinks Leland just switched bodies into the not so sweet grandma? Or something along those lines. He was just too still in that last scene, and it just completed the red sequence!