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Post by -|E|- on Jan 30, 2006 20:34:00 GMT -5
I gave this ep an A.... I loved it! I'm so late in commenting that everyone has covered just about everything.... You guys rock. I loved Ronnie's reaction to hearing Danny tell them her baby is a boy.... He seemed a bit impressed and, ummmm... proud. My favorite moment HAS to be seeing Shane's tight little ass!! Too bad he was on top of H E R at the time! < is green with envy!!
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Post by stovetop on Feb 1, 2006 17:44:26 GMT -5
I give every episode so far this season an A.
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Post by Inside Man on Feb 6, 2006 8:41:57 GMT -5
Like I said way early in this thread, I wasn't able to watch 'Jailbait' in my preferred fashion due to too many interruptions. This weekend, I got the chance to watch it and 'Tapa Boca' back-to-back with zero interruptions. Most of my comments will end up in the 'Tapa Boca' thread because that's what's fresh in my mind. Besides, the two eps have kinda gelled into one in my head.
When Dutch asked for Marshall's read on Everday, I loved the pan between the television and the interrogation room. It was a bit cinematic but a fresh change of pace. Good technical stuff there.
axeman, I just saw your question on page 1 concerning the similarity between this ep and an episode of The Wire. I'm sorry for the delayed response. You asked, so I'll tell ya. But be forewarned that, if you have any plans to watch The Wire (which I recommend to anyone), this would be considered spoilage because the shock value was potent:
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In 2.01, an unaccounted-for International Shipping container gets stranded on the docks in Baltimore. Something to do with its customs credentials. At the very end of the episode, the container is opened. At the back, they find a false wall and break it open. Inside, they find the dead bodies of 18 Russian women. A couple of epsiodes later, it's revealed that the women were being smuggled into the country as part of a prostitution ring.
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Post by axeman61 on Feb 6, 2006 11:00:20 GMT -5
Oh. That. I thought you may have meant one of the segments where the team had to work around Lem's IAD mic. I loved those, and if they came from another show I'd be pissed.
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Post by Inside Man on Feb 6, 2006 12:22:37 GMT -5
Yeah, those are some great scenes.
Interestingly enough, in the documentary The Aristocrats, Martin Mull delivers a joke that's a combination of that joke and "Death by Chi-Chi": Very well, death. But first, The Aristocrats!
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Post by Six Paul Eleven on Feb 7, 2006 11:42:35 GMT -5
What about the impact on Corinne if Vic is the father of Danny's baby? Could give Kav some leverage to try to get Corinne to roll on Vic for revenge. "Hell hath no fury like that of a woman's scorn"
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Post by acc on Mar 22, 2007 19:31:29 GMT -5
5x03 Jailbait is a strong episode that introduces a new integral character, Becca Doyle, and manages to develop a strong "stand-alone-ish" story for itself with more Lem-is-in-peril drama.
I give the episode a B+. Dutch's story here is not so strong, and the unofficial elevation of Tina seemed too abrupt. (How plausible is this story, that she'd be used this way after being on the job for such a short amount of time? I'm curious.) However, Claudette gets to rectify Dutch's error in having Everyday arrested, which was a neat way of bringing Becca in, who Vic has an eye on to be his and his guys' attorney. (Bad idea, Vic--her later-in-the-season complaint that she should be only his lawyer made a great deal of sense. And Ronnie's logic in 5x07 was apparent as well.)
The episode has some structural soundness that is not too surprising since this is the best series out there. The way Vic and Shane discuss Lem recalls their old school days of having to sort the mess of Terry out; now that it's resurfaced, they've got to do something.
The dynamics in the episode are punctuated by good acting. Chiklis gives a strong performance in this episode as he's juggling his sex slave ring case and the IAD probe. Wyms is excellent as the dutiful cop who wants to hear the actual truth regarding Everyday. David Marciano steps his game up here as well and we get the sense that, yes, Billings is an unbearable dork but he's also a human being (something that was missing in the first two episodes).
But, like so much of Season 5, Kenneth Johnson gets to have the real acting fun. Lem is, I would suspect, a more difficult role to play than most of the others in the show (though all of the characters have crucial nuances that could easily get lost in lesser actors' hands). Johnson makes us feel Lem's pain in almost traumatic fashion. The scene with him typing on the keyboard what led to his current situation is one of the best "I'm silent but I'm very upset" jobs I've seen an actor pull. That he gets to express it with his writing makes it more palpable. Goggins does a great job careening between his silly chi-chi joke and soaking in what Lem is writing (to him).
The episode ultimately relies, I think, on the Shane-Mara scene that foreshadows so much (that really won't be paid off for eight episodes). When Shane convinces Mara that he's out to protect her and their son after she tells him that Jackson needs his father, it is a moment that immediately caught my attention. Shane's moral decay--the trajectory of his very soul from conspiring to murder one cop, to doing the deed on his own much later--is evident, right in the middle of this arc, when he pulls his gun on Lem in 3x14. Shane is upset because Lem is burning their money. Shane seems like the type of person who likes justifying his greed by talking about his family and thinking about his family. (He even verbally rationalizes, to Lem, why he must murder him in 5x11 by telling him about Mara's second pregnancy, just before he does.) Before Shane met Mara and before they became engaged and then married in Season 3, he seemed to lack the justification behind his obsessive greed. Now he's got it and then some, at least in his own mind.
Vic's nonverbal pact with Lem just before Jon has Vic called up is a priceless moment. The feckless way in which Vic has handled the situation is redeemed, for both men, right then. All Vic has to do is write "We together?" and Lem's back aboard the ship.
The Vic-Jon confrontation is one of those nifty things that works when you set up all the pieces correctly. As another poster remarked, Jon doesn't know Vic is onto him yet, and at this point he wants to get a good look at his prey.
A good episode that sets up the next two well.
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Post by chemikalman on Mar 22, 2007 22:04:45 GMT -5
I see you're back in form, acc.
Take a look at the inside info board with the questions for Glen Mazzara last season and Adam Fierro this season. You'll notice that I don't ask direct spoilers because I already know they don't answer those. Especially those pertaining to how the show wraps up next season, which they are working on now and I'm sure will be guarded very closely. (See Adam's last comment in his most recent reply).
This week I'm gonna ask about Mara since we see her in the promosode ... I want to find out how much Adam is willing to tell us about her involvement in Season 6. The trick will be the phrasing, for the reason mentioned above.
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Post by acc on Mar 26, 2007 11:00:33 GMT -5
Thanks, chem, I found Adam's replies fascinating!
It's kind of sad to see the show wind down to its conclusion. Sadder than I thought it would be. (I think one of the reasons for this level of sadness is due to the fact that the series has managed to keep its strong quality. If it were clearly dwindling creatively, I think, it wouldn't be such a sad state of affairs for me.)
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