Intense first episode, just like the two previous seasons, as well as leaving off on a little cliff hanger. Good television!
Some details: -less incidental music than before, which I liked, because it left everything much rawer and realer somehow. -there was a Patagonia poster behind Philip at the travel agent office! (Some of you may know that Matthew has travelled extensively there and also written a book about it, not to mention starred in a film with the same name. A bit of meta!) -intro music was slightly different -was the other agent that got beat up not American? At first I thought he sounded British. -"Frusen glädje" was an actual thing, I read somewhere. I had no idea and it was a fun detail for a Swedish person to see.
At the very beginning, are we to believe that Elizabeth pushed Paige into the water at the bath house? I do get the symbolism of the scene, but was it imagined or real, do you think?
As always, this show brings up the position of women and their changing roles during this time period in so many excellent ways. First with the alcoholic CIA agent retelling how she was ignored when doing a better job than her male colleague. Then Sandra's whole storyline about breaking free from a failed marriage and becoming her own person. Elizabeth dual personality as a "domestic goddess" and mother, while also being a lethal fighting machine. (Gabriel's comment about her being a good American housewife...) Martha, simultaneously being her own person with a job and her own home, but wanting a family and a man in her life.
I like that even we as an audience don't know what Nina's true feelings are. She obviously has two men who love her in their own way, but I don't feel we have (yet) learned whether her feelings for either of them are genuine or calculated. Maybe she loves both?
Underlying theme of the whole episode was HONESTY, in my opinion. Stan lying to Sandra, Annelise telling the truth to Yousaf, Clark saying "yes" to Martha after the Kama Sutra session, Scott telling Annelise it's ok, Elizabeth telling Gabriel what he/The Centre wants to hear about Paige.
Things ahead: It will be interesting to see what the Gabriel character will bring to this season. We are led to understand he is like a father figure to E and P. But how is he going to use that trust? And of course, Martha's got a gun!
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Date: 2015-01-29 08:01 am (UTC)Intense first episode, just like the two previous seasons, as well as leaving off on a little cliff hanger. Good television!
Some details:
-less incidental music than before, which I liked, because it left everything much rawer and realer somehow.
-there was a Patagonia poster behind Philip at the travel agent office! (Some of you may know that Matthew has travelled extensively there and also written a book about it, not to mention starred in a film with the same name. A bit of meta!)
-intro music was slightly different
-was the other agent that got beat up not American? At first I thought he sounded British.
-"Frusen glädje" was an actual thing, I read somewhere. I had no idea and it was a fun detail for a Swedish person to see.
At the very beginning, are we to believe that Elizabeth pushed Paige into the water at the bath house? I do get the symbolism of the scene, but was it imagined or real, do you think?
As always, this show brings up the position of women and their changing roles during this time period in so many excellent ways. First with the alcoholic CIA agent retelling how she was ignored when doing a better job than her male colleague. Then Sandra's whole storyline about breaking free from a failed marriage and becoming her own person. Elizabeth dual personality as a "domestic goddess" and mother, while also being a lethal fighting machine. (Gabriel's comment about her being a good American housewife...)
Martha, simultaneously being her own person with a job and her own home, but wanting a family and a man in her life.
I like that even we as an audience don't know what Nina's true feelings are. She obviously has two men who love her in their own way, but I don't feel we have (yet) learned whether her feelings for either of them are genuine or calculated. Maybe she loves both?
Underlying theme of the whole episode was HONESTY, in my opinion. Stan lying to Sandra, Annelise telling the truth to Yousaf, Clark saying "yes" to Martha after the Kama Sutra session, Scott telling Annelise it's ok, Elizabeth telling Gabriel what he/The Centre wants to hear about Paige.
Things ahead: It will be interesting to see what the Gabriel character will bring to this season. We are led to understand he is like a father figure to E and P. But how is he going to use that trust? And of course, Martha's got a gun!