I rather enjoyed the show, till the last 3 episodes, which all have been cluster**** of crazy people making crazy decisions.
The only good left in this episode is the chemistry between Trish and Jessica and the flashbacks. Pretty much everything else belongs in the bin of terrible writing.
Oh good. I was wondering where Luke'd disappeared to.
Awesome scene with Trish kicking the ever-living crap out of Simpson. Speaking of Simpson -- major credit to the actor. He really makes regular Simpson and super-soldier Simpson two very, very different people.
You are a superhero - he threw the blue pills out the window... JUST GO GET THEM, jeez, why is everyone dumb in this show. D:
Probably the best episode so far.
Nope. The only good points were the flashbacks on Jessica and Trish relationship, and briefly the moment she discovers her power (wow, she takes it very pragmatically).
The investigations were more clever in the beginning. Then it almost disappeared, and looks like they have forgotten how to write it. It was really uninteresting.
The whole Simpson super soldier thing was boring in the beginning, it's getting worse. And the whoel episode is mostly about that. Also, come on, Trish may have trained a little but he's twice her weight, with a super commando training, and have been popping these pills like candies for days, how could she take him on with one pill ?
Luke gets back. I keep wondering how he was left out of it for so long. With Kilgrave having Jessica followed al the time, how come he didn't seem to know about Luke ?
No Kilgrave at all in this one, which combined with the rest makes it the worse episode of the season so far.
I wasn't a fan of Super Trish. I mean, Simpson is obviously a trained spec ops soldier and he is on a higher dose of the drug so I'm assuming he is stronger because of it. I don't see how Trish would even have a chance even if he was trying not to hurt her. Plus she is an idiot for taking the drug after the way it made Simpson a nut job.
Greaaaaat!! I think we mmight ave an awesome season finale
So much happened in this episode, oh my god
fun episode. i like simpson as a character - i think there's a neat complexity to the fact that he probably really does love trish, but since he's addicted to these drugs he's willing to use her. the "ends justify the means" thing is a little bit forced with how much of a renegade vigilante he's being, but i still like him.
hope we don't get one of those cliche "now trish is addicted to drugs" plots that TV shows love to do
Follow the 1x10, when they adopted Jessica, as she discovered his powers. That Rebecca de Mornay acting as Trish's mother
Jessica is the most erratic, less effective heroine in the whole world. But if they keep her in the limits of this and plain simple stupidity, this would be end a great show.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2015-12-12T03:12:31Z
8.5/10. Loved the way this one was shot and edited. There were so many interesting POV shots that conveyed how Jessica and others were feeling in the midst of her marathon without sleep. There was an impressionistic bent to the way a lot her scenes were shot, that really helped tell the story of how she was feeling without making it explicit.
And the rapport between Jessica and Trish is probably the best it's ever been in this episode. From the sprinkled in backstory that took a page from sister show Daredevil in parceling out the origin story without devoting one single episode to it, to the way that the pair just seemed to only trust one another, only feel comfortable with one another, the central relationship in the show so far has never felt more lived-in or real that it did here.
This was, in many ways, a regroup episode. After pretty constant escalation on the Kilgrave front, this was an episode that served as a bit of slack tide between that big mid-season climax and the final push at the end. It worked as a chance to sort of survey where all the characters are and point them on a path forward. There was a sense that everyone is still reeling from the events of the prior couple of episodes, but still gearing up for the last battle with Kilgrave. Seeing how Jessica in particular had a different attitude now that Hope--the symbol of her crusade--was gone, made a difference.
I wasn't a big fan of the Simpson part of the storyline. He was nicely unsettling as he was stalking Trish, but the whole super pill thing just doesn't jibe with me, especially when you had the sort of perfunctory twist of Trish taking the same pills and having to get saved. But hopefully that's at least finished now.
And I also appreciated Malcolm's crisis of conscience about whether it's worth it to help. It's some emotional, heartbreaking stuff when he doesn't call Jessica, and it's very earned with the character's arc over the course of the season.
Even though, ugh, we close on Luke coming back, it's still a nice lead in to the show's final push.