Maybe Tomorrow restored some faith in this season for me. I
know we are only three episodes in, but last week really was FUBAR. To start
with Collin Farrell’s character isn’t dead. For me he is the best aspect of the
season. He is carrying the episodes as an actor, and in general his character
is the only one you are rooting for. Everyone else is just kind of blah for me.
Racheal McAdams is holding her own, but I don’t think they are giving her enough
to work with yet. Which is becoming my major gripe for this season. There are
too many damn characters and storylines. Let’s stick with our three main
detectives and get the case rolling. This weeks was a little more focused than
last week, and we did get some advancement on our overall story.
To reiterate, Collin Farrell was great this week. He seems
to be the only character who is trying to overcome his issues, or seen trying
at least. The first scene was a little
trippy, and we didn’t know if he was alive or dead. I liked the wake up line, “I
pissed myself.” It was a good chuckle after going so deep with the near death
dream. Much stronger start than last week’s Vaughn monologue. Though WTF was
going on with that song to start the episode?? It was good, just trippy. I like
that he is struggling with how much he wants to reveal to Ani, and how much he
wants to solve the murder. The confrontation with Frank was strong, and it was interesting
to see Ray think Frank walked him into getting shot. I like he is trying to sober up, to not dull
his anger. I think an angry Ray is an interesting RayJ.
Ray doesn’t have many interactions with Ani, and I feel Ani
didn’t have much of an impact on the episode overall. One thing I didn’t get
was the suggestion by the state investigator to push Ray hard. Even suggesting
she flirt and tempt him with sex to get him to reveal how dirty he is. Ani’s
character was very dubious of this, and well she should be. Just not sure how
realistic it would be for a senior official to even make this suggestion. I
think they may even make a romantic interlude with Ani and Ray at some point,
but they will both be willing if that does happen. Ani has more interactions
with Paul, Taylor Kitsch, this week. They seemed play off each other well, and
I wouldn’t mind seeing more of them together. The e-cigarette running joke,
probably should have been left on the editing room floor. We now know for sure
that Paul is gay. I think they probably should have just stuck with one issue
instead of two for this character. Have him
be PTSD or Gay, not both. Though I do think him struggling with his
homosexuality is more of an issue for the character than his PTSD. Taylor did
do ok this week, it still isn’t the best, and I’m not sure about the character.
He was still better than Vince Vaughn.
Can someone off Frank already? The weird existential
criminal is getting old and we are only three episodes in. I did like his fight
scene and the interaction with Ray.
Though they were both still filled with clunky dialogue. I’m not sure if
it is the dialogue or Vaughn’s delivery that is the issue, but something isn’t
right. I like Vince Vaughn and I really wanted him to be good in this role, but
he isn’t pulling it off. I was very optimistic when I heard he was cast, and
thought he would be good. I was dead wrong, or I have been for the first three
episodes. Hopefully I am eating crow by the end of the season, but I don’t see
it happening. Now, does anyone actually think the killer is trying to mess with
Frank? I don’t think so, I think it is a deranged serial killer. Frank messing
with this scene of the murder will come back to bite him in the ass.
Okay the last WTF moment of the episode. Why have the scene
with the Mayor’s family? It was really pointless, unless the Mayor’s kid is
going to play a bigger role. Maybe he’s the killer?? Not sure, but I don’t see
another reason for the scene. It was just odd, the same with the scenes with
the mayor last week. Not getting those character’s at all.
This week was better than last week. Ray and Ani are good
together, and I hope they continue to build their relationship. I’m still going
to be tuning in every week, just because the story is interesting, and I am
invested. Hoping the storylines get trimmed down and we focus more on our main
detectives. PLEASE LESS VAUGHN!
My Rating: Better
than last week, good episode overall.
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