203 - "Maybe Tomorrow"
A_Ron_Hubbard
Cincinnati, OH
Director: Janus Metz Pedersen
Writer: Nic Pizzolatto
Writer: Nic Pizzolatto
A_Ron_Hubbard
Cincinnati, OH
Comments
American Sniper released in January 2015 so the billboard lines up.
I have to say, I'm kind of scratching my head about several critics comments that the director shown in this episode was supposed to be a dig at Fukanaga. Guy looked nothing like him, and even if he did, it wasn't an unflattering portrait. I was waiting to really grit my teeth at Pizzolotto being so petty, but now I feel like the critics were grasping, and one of those graspers was Sepinwall, so what the hell?
The newspaper article from episode 1 date is October 27,2015.
Anyway, I kinda expect the show to be a sort of awakening thing for Ray. Actually he has lived a miserable live since the whole rape thing, has gone down the dark corruption road and now gets the chance to wipe up the dirty floor and draw a line under his mess. Of course it'll be messy but after all the struggles he would eventually rediscover his will to live.
A. These things exist.
B. Actually killing a cop as opposed to sending a non-lethal message draws a lot of unwanted (FBI) attention.
C. It's a clue that dirty cops might be involved and there could be a security leak.
D. Would you really expect them to ruin the tension at the end of the episode by showing he's still alive and forfeit that cool intro we got this episode?
So I also noticed they're doing the
I'm-gay-and-coming-out-of-the-closet-would-exonerate-me-from-my-legal-issues-because-bi-sexuality-doesn't-exist
spiel with the highway patrol cop, that's always a good spiel to do.
I saw that same trope yesterday when I was watching Legally Blonde 2. Can't wait for that to play out /s
@Bountlyn I agree it looks like a change in him is about to happen. He is definitely at his lowest point now. He literally has no-one who cares about him, not his colleagues and he isn't allowed to see his kid, gangsters just use him like a pawn. His motivation for quitting the drink is anger, that's never good...
Also Vince's character is getting increasingly desperate - this is an explosive situation and the fuse has been lit...
All in all pretty exciting stuff, I'm still very much invested and on the ride
A chase scene with a potential suspect. Was it a rabbit mask that the person was wearing?
1. Birdman did not know anyone would be there. He was sweeping the house for whatever information they were trying to get out of Casper by torturing him. Ray shows up, he grabs a mask off the wall (hence the missing mask) and the shotgun. The shotgun happens to have crowd control bullets in it, because it was used as a prop in the snuff porn that was being made in the house (which we will see when they find the hard-drive).
2. Danny Santos (the club owner, who just had his teeth ripped out), knows who killed Casper but doesn't know much of the details. Once Frank leaves the club, Danny questions the escort about the house she had just told Frank about; she mentions the video camera in the closet. He makes a call, the killers race to the house to get the camera/hard-drive. They know Frank might send one of his police buddies, so rather than bring live ammunition they bring the crowd-control bullets. A dead cop would bring way too much attention to the case. Ray pulls up while Birdman is in the house, so he waits in a side-room and then incapacitates Ray before taking the camera and hard-drive.
3. Felicia, the waitress at the bar where Frank meets Ray, eavesdrops on their conversation. She hears Frank tell Ray to go to Caspers place in Hollywood. Felicia tips off the killers, and lets them know that someone is on the way to the house and it's definitely a cop. Same as in option 2, they bring crowd-control bullets to avoid killing a cop. While I like this theory the best for why they brought crowd-control ammunition, it doesn't really give the killer's a motive to go back to the house. Maybe Danny tips Felicia off about the camera?
I wanted to do a little more thinking before really commenting about this, but two quick things:
1. I laughed my ass off (literally, I no longer have an ass which I am honestly concerned will create future logistical problems, but anyhoo). In the middle of the episode, not long after the Vince and Colin scene my wife shouted out "Why don't they talk like people?!" Another vote for @Jim on that.
2. Man, that intro scene was about the most Lynchian thing not actually done by David Lynch that I've ever seen. The only thing that could have made it more Lynchian would have been for the singer to be Michael J Anderson. This isn't to say that I didn't like it, which I really did, but wow.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027199/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
I mean seriously, look how impractical this mask is:
it's also In Mulholland where some woman sings it accapell in Spanish. That's the part I was refering too.