Nolan and Harper are a fun combination. Good, that they found a new partner for Nolan.
But I do think that, especially in this episode, Nolan's behaviour was in parts rather out of character.
The humour surrounding him is somewhat too slapstick-y as well. Like the things he needs to fix at the beginning of this episode.
A broken door is supposed to be funny but I think it's just stupid. It's a thing you use daily, should be working to give a basic sense of security/privacy. If that is the level of craftmanship he brought to his former job, no wonder he changed careers.
In this episode it might have been to show his happy-go-lucky mood to get a bigger impact on the end.
But it just felt silly. Just like the end. If my son would bring home his fiancé I never met before without telling me, a police officer in training, that she has a certain history with the police and behaving that snarky towards me...
I'd wipe that smug off his face pretty quickly (not with slapping him, mind you). But I would have approached the whole topic differently in the first place as well. But it's TV, so we need that conflict, right?
Despite those pet peeves overall a fine episode.
What is that scene with Nolan and his son at the start. The pounding ringing of the doorbell? Who does this? the constant electrical box fire? What? He can't open a door and people barge in on him. What shoe is this? The man is a contractor. This is the one thing we know he's competent doing why is it so slapstick now.
I mean do people really go in front of the shelf in gun ranges? It strikes me as the sort of thing that would be against the rules.
Hahaha. Another laugh out loud moment as drug mule Bianca runs into a car. Did that happen in season 1 because it feels like something that happened to Nolan and he got mocked for it.
The Airport scene. What the flying toadstool is that blocking? It just isn't possible that GMC car pulled up and they didn't see the cops standing literally behind the doorway. Who blocked that shot because they're an idiot. Speaking of bad angles and sightlines. Right after that two cars pull up, Mitsubishis I think, and the only clue there are two cars heading for them is that Nolan's sightline shows him looking at two objects. Which was SUPER confusing because there's clearly only one car. Until they both pull up and suddenly everything is confusing.
One of the good things about this season and the mixing up is seeing new relationships. A lot of mix and matches. Plus with all the extended cast we're getting a lot more personal life. I refuse to buy the fact that Jackson West KNEW about the relationship between Lucy and John. It's a stupid insert
Nolan has to deal with whether to do a background check on his son's surprise fiance. In a show about cops there's a very clear way to handle this. You interview her and lead her to tell you what you already know. But because this is a show ABOUT cops they have to play the "Do I do the background check or not" game. And of course the background check was EXACTLY what I expected. She has crime but it's decontextualized. I expect his son will be VERY angry at his dad. Abigail is an idiot for those pregnant jokes. I mean I like her as a character for the 2 minutes we see her but the joke is a bomb every time.
ACAB
Ok so in the ACAB corner I think I'll highlight all the ways the show tries to make cops look better than they are. This is not normally a reflection on the show or it's quality. This whole episode is about abusing power to force people into danger. I don't have cemented feelings about whether CIs should exist or not but I can't think about criminal informants without thinking about exactly the sort of situations that happen in this episode.
I started watching this show last week, absolutely hooked on "realities" of daily police work.
Having said that... How can someone edit an episode so that on a 3-minute mark there's a scene with gun shooting obvious blanks?
One shot is when we cannot verify if the person discharging the gun is the actress (playing Nora), bullets clearly hitting silhouette target.
Then when we cut to a shot of actress playing Nora discharging her gun, there is a CLOSE-UP on the target and she is shooting like it's the end of days... and the target shows no new bullet holes (obviously shooting blanks).
Why? Why would you show such a blatant error AND WITH A CLOSE-UP OF THE TARGET LOL
Very good episode that has a good mix of police and personal stories.
Shout by LineageBlockedParent2019-10-28T21:11:28Z
I like that all three of their informants are very different. Lucy's informant works at a pawn shop, John's informant makes fake IDs, and Jackson's informant is an FBI informant. That's quite the variety.