Thursday Viewing

This is a weekend view. I was wrapping up a project and decided to play the first episode to get an idea of the show. I enjoy William Oldroyd’s work and wanted to see how this played out. I can’t recall what I was doing, the entirety of the series played.

What worked:

Bernthal out-acted everyone else in his scenes. He was my favorite part of the series. With all of his previous work, I was waiting for the hot-head blowup and it never came. He was subdued the entire show. Him playing against type made the mystery of the series land better. I wish I could make it to Dog Day Afternoon this Spring.

Then you had Pablo Schreiber as the other guy. He played against type too. He was a co-star in a twenty year history of the rest of the characters, but played a pivotal piece.

Have you ever walked into an awkward situation and not realized how you got there. A running gag in my friend circle is that the give away is you go to a meet-up and out of nowhere Maxwell’s “Ascension” starts playing. That’s your queue and you just apologize and make your way to the door. For Tessa Thompson’s character the song was Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game”. When that song came on, I just thought to myself, “please run, I think he’s the killer”.

If you watch thrillers, this was a character study. For those of us that can get into the geek, this woman was dealing with The Punisher and Master Chief from Halo. She didn’t even look scared when she halfway knew she was walking into the killer’s house. Then I remembered she was the Valkyrie and she was fine.

If the paragraph above doesn’t make sense, it’s fine. You’re watching a legit crime drama. It finished at a decent hour and I closed the laptop and got ready to knockout when I got an alert that the season 2 premiere of The Pitt had dropped.

I had to, but I was half awake. It’s good. It’s the old crew back together with a few new faces. The main operation was a chest wound that involved rotating a lung within the patient’s chest cavity to stop the bleeding and sustain the heart, which was going into afib. It was hard vaping through that scene. I have to rewatch that episode again to get into the character’s headspace. It doesn’t feel any less than the first season. I have to be somewhere at 8:15, to be continued.