Don’t forget: there’s a marathon of The Americans first five episodes this Friday, March 1! Tune in or set your DVRs!
New Girl
This was kind of a fun episode. Jess is still thinking about her kiss with Nick, and is looking to get some new lips to think about. Meanwhile, Cece finally agrees to “do the thing” with the mother-approved guy she’s been seeing, and they get engaged at Nick and Schmidt’s ten year anniversary of living together.
The fun part isn’t that Nick buys a Port-a-Potty for party or that Cece gets engaged–rather, we get Steve Howey as a guest star playing a football player who falls for Jess, HARD! It’s pretty hilarious. He moves way too fast and all Jess wants is a quick kiss to dwell on, though she does like that he talks about his feelings, unlike Nick.
However, he overdoes it, even going so far as to cry over having met her. Awww….? I loved this turn of events, mostly because Steve Howey is freakin’ hilarious, but I wish they hadn’t turned him into such a wank so quickly.
Golden Boy
After sitting through this episode, and even during the previews, I am reminded of LA Confidential and Lieutenant Edmund Exley. The show chronicles Walter’s rise through the NYPD to become the youngest commissioner ever to sit behind Teddy Roosevelt’s desk. It’s told through a series of flashbacks, but because they are the bulk of the story, they are shot as au-courant scenes rather than narrated by Walter years later.
After some heroics, Walter gets his pick of jobs in the department and he chooses homicide. Right off, he gets partnered up with Detective Don Owen (Chi McBride), and realizes that despite his knack for detective work, he still has a lot to learn.
There’s a lot of similarity to the LA Confidential story, even another publicity hound cop not unlike Kevin Spacey’s Jack Vincens. I’m not really crazy about the flashback element mainly because there’s no “current” story.
He’s police commissioner and he’s telling the story of how he got there to another cop, played by the familiar face of Richard Kind (you’d probably recognize him from Spin City, a recurring guest role as a hypochondriac on Scrubs, and some other guest appearances on shows like Leverage and Burn Notice in the past couple years). Walter’s a compelling character, with a Shawn Spencer-like ability to notice things that others don’t necessarily see, though it’s not a photographic memory.
Overall, it wasn’t bad. I like it a little better than I liked Vegas when it first started. But, it’s another cop drama and I prefer my Harlan man, Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens, I prefer my hilarious dynamic duo of Shawn and Gus, I prefer my male and female team Holmes and Watson, to the cops on this show. They’re more interesting. They’re more entertaining. And those shows have more balls, guts, and heart than this one has so far.
But, I won’t get ahead of myself. I’ll give it another week or two before I write it off entirely.
Justified
WOW, this episode was a freakin’ BLOODBATH! Right out of the gate, Raylan goes to the former Sheriff he put away, Hunter Mosley, to try to swap him a deal for the one Arlo was getting to help find Drew Thompson.
Little does he know, he’s set off a chain of events that will lead to his father’s death. Mosley winds up stabbing Arlo in the chest with a pair of barber’s scissors not ten minutes in. It’s pretty gruesome. I know we don’t really like Arlo, but he was entertaining, at least. It’s a little sad to see him go. He was colorful. Like all the characters on this show.
We’ll miss your sense of humor, Arlo.
RIP.
Just to keep the marshal on his toes, there’s a crazy fake-cop killer on the loose! First, it seems like he’s killing men who may or may not be Drew Thompson, according to a list of suspects that Raylan put together for Thompson’s psychic ex-wife. But, then he goes off-script and kills someone else.
However, just as he’s trying to make off with Boyd, Raylan walks in. He sees Ava’s new engagement ring, wondering how in the hell a nice woman like Ava could marry yet another Crowder. But when the fake cop warns him he’ll be shot if he doesn’t get out of his way, Raylan Shoot-First-Ask-Questions-Later Givens has no problem putting him down.
When Art finds out about Arlo’s death, he mandates Raylan on a leave of absence. They may not have gotten along, but the man was his father, after all.
I cannot tell you how amazing this season has been so far. I’ve been watching this show (once again) from the beginning, and it’s always been good, but it’s only gotten better with time, and this is definitely one of the best seasons to date. If you’re not watching it, you oughta be. 😛
Up next:
Recaps from the Psych! season premiere and an all-new ep of The Americans!
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