Blue Water tried very hard to be as gripping as the episode that came before it, but it didn’t quite manage to convey the same sense of urgency or to involve the viewer with a similar visceral intensity. Instead, the many developments and action sequences crammed within the hour-long episode seemed to lack the glue required to make them mesh well together.
Margo Martindale returns to FX in The Americans, Whedonverse actress Eliza Dushku co-stars in a remake of The Saint, ABC develops high-concept drama The Returned, USA Network gives a pilot order to Horizon, FX seeks to have its own Homeland, and Congress’s law on TV commercials loudness mitigation comes into effect.
The Human Kind brought Fringe back on track, and that is not because Peter was literally pulled back by his wife, but rather because the episode restored the series emotional balance while competently pushing its own agenda forward.
Last week’s episode might have stood out for its storylines and the craftsmanship it showcased, but Cinderella Liberty was without a doubt the most gripping episode of Last Resort so far. The best the series has to offer shifted back to Sainte Marina and the open sea with a story that relentlessly plowed ahead, sending viewers and characters through a flurry of emotional reactions to the adrenaline-fueled scenes.
Game of Thrones’s Sean Bean gets a new gig on TNT’s Legends, casting is underway for the CW’s Wonder Woman, Piper Perabo is set to recur on NBC’s Go On, and CBS picks up Steven Spielberg’s ‘Under the Dome’ which is based on a Stephen King book.
The midseason finale Made to Suffer delivered everything it needed for us appreciate what we’ve seen so far this season and what’s come.
In terms of structure and storytelling (but not adrenaline), Big Chicken Dinner was arguably the best episode of Last Resort to date, better even than the series premiere. It managed to give us some new revealing insights into characters we were somewhat familiar with, advanced the story with subtle pushes, dealt with the subject of rape using the right notes (mostly), and largely contained the chief irritating character’s negative impact on the series.
