The Shadow Line
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redfiona99The Shadow Line:
Episode 5 - It says something about the show that an episode with an explosion and the death of an important secondary character is a calm before the storm episode.
It definitely felt that way with all the pieces being moved into place ready for the finale.
This was despite us finally meeting Glickman, who was every bit as terrifying as expected. The scene with him and Gatehouse was amazingly well done, but I think that's what happens when you give Anthony Sher and Stephen Rea a decent script and let them go with it.
I do worry for the next set of pawns, and more importantly for the people they're going to replace.
So now we get another layer of conspiracy with Counterpoint, and I'm willing to pay out to whoever had 'government conspiracy' down as Gatehouse's employer in the draw.
Glickman managed to fight Gatehouse to a draw, which makes him the only person to tussle with him and come out alive. The scene with Gatehouse in the airport afterwards was terrifying, because he was so angry, which Stephen Rea showed by how straight he sat and held his teacup.
And now we have a total 180 on Gabriel's boss. Although he admits he's doing it to save his own skin, so I find it more believable than a lot of the others when they claim they're squeaky clean.
Bede ending up with Glickman's mistress somehow makes him more sympathetic, possibly because he was so squeaky clean (um relatively, as Stu pointed out, there's a problem when you're most sympathetic character runs a drugs import/export outfit) where as he's now unspeakably human.
I did like the line of young Rattalack, when Gatehouse is trying to put the feat of well, Gatehouse, into him, goes 'you're in the game now' and he replies with 'better in it than on it', oh he's not going to come to a good end but he's wonderful.
Bob Harris's death scene was magnificent, even if I start to suspect the writer is a Tarantino fan (spectacularly inapt music and mundane dialogue punctuating scenes of criminal violence). Some Enchanted Evening will never sound the same ever again.
Because, of course, everything starts moving.
We finally find out what a shadow line is in show. And of course, the leak, this time round, is the one person you'd least expect it to be, who, as he says is forced into because 'the police and the criminals have started looking young'.
Of course, he doesn't know that Bede's wife's life is on the line, and when he does he's so immediately regretful.
The scene at the first funeral was the sort of dark tinged with a bitter humour brilliance this show does.
I think one of the problems is that because I've never had a real debate about whether I was good or not (um, mostly because I figured out at ~ 6 that I really wasn't, but so long as I'm not actively bad either, I think that's okay) so I have very little sympathy or empathy or what not for Gabriel's plight. I tend towards Gatehouse's view that you know whether you're bad or good, or you know what you think you are, which makes a difference to how you feel but not to what you are, and we can never know objectively which we are. All of which means that I'm shocked and horrified that Gabriel decided finding the truth was more important than his ex-mistress and their child. I may have had to go and correct some idiot on tv tropes who decided to put the blame entirely on the mistress (why yes, I am now a 'known' troper', I promise to use said awesome power wisely).
Glickman's mistress being an agent of the what I think is now safe to say is a government conspiracy was a surprise.
The second funeral scene may have been even better.
Of course, while Gatehouse not being dead is one of this show's more egregious breaks with reality, I can't really say I mind. The moment the nurse said he had the heart beat of a twenty year old I knew where it was going. But it was very well done. I'm not sure what Gatehouse will do next mind, I'm supposing he understood that as an agent of the mahoosive government conspiracy, if he were injured, someone would be sent to make sure he didn't talk, but I get visions of him not being happy about it.
The last part is not going to end well for anyone I fear.
Episode 5 - It says something about the show that an episode with an explosion and the death of an important secondary character is a calm before the storm episode.
It definitely felt that way with all the pieces being moved into place ready for the finale.
This was despite us finally meeting Glickman, who was every bit as terrifying as expected. The scene with him and Gatehouse was amazingly well done, but I think that's what happens when you give Anthony Sher and Stephen Rea a decent script and let them go with it.
I do worry for the next set of pawns, and more importantly for the people they're going to replace.
So now we get another layer of conspiracy with Counterpoint, and I'm willing to pay out to whoever had 'government conspiracy' down as Gatehouse's employer in the draw.
Glickman managed to fight Gatehouse to a draw, which makes him the only person to tussle with him and come out alive. The scene with Gatehouse in the airport afterwards was terrifying, because he was so angry, which Stephen Rea showed by how straight he sat and held his teacup.
And now we have a total 180 on Gabriel's boss. Although he admits he's doing it to save his own skin, so I find it more believable than a lot of the others when they claim they're squeaky clean.
Bede ending up with Glickman's mistress somehow makes him more sympathetic, possibly because he was so squeaky clean (um relatively, as Stu pointed out, there's a problem when you're most sympathetic character runs a drugs import/export outfit) where as he's now unspeakably human.
I did like the line of young Rattalack, when Gatehouse is trying to put the feat of well, Gatehouse, into him, goes 'you're in the game now' and he replies with 'better in it than on it', oh he's not going to come to a good end but he's wonderful.
Bob Harris's death scene was magnificent, even if I start to suspect the writer is a Tarantino fan (spectacularly inapt music and mundane dialogue punctuating scenes of criminal violence). Some Enchanted Evening will never sound the same ever again.
Because, of course, everything starts moving.
We finally find out what a shadow line is in show. And of course, the leak, this time round, is the one person you'd least expect it to be, who, as he says is forced into because 'the police and the criminals have started looking young'.
Of course, he doesn't know that Bede's wife's life is on the line, and when he does he's so immediately regretful.
The scene at the first funeral was the sort of dark tinged with a bitter humour brilliance this show does.
I think one of the problems is that because I've never had a real debate about whether I was good or not (um, mostly because I figured out at ~ 6 that I really wasn't, but so long as I'm not actively bad either, I think that's okay) so I have very little sympathy or empathy or what not for Gabriel's plight. I tend towards Gatehouse's view that you know whether you're bad or good, or you know what you think you are, which makes a difference to how you feel but not to what you are, and we can never know objectively which we are. All of which means that I'm shocked and horrified that Gabriel decided finding the truth was more important than his ex-mistress and their child. I may have had to go and correct some idiot on tv tropes who decided to put the blame entirely on the mistress (why yes, I am now a 'known' troper', I promise to use said awesome power wisely).
Glickman's mistress being an agent of the what I think is now safe to say is a government conspiracy was a surprise.
The second funeral scene may have been even better.
Of course, while Gatehouse not being dead is one of this show's more egregious breaks with reality, I can't really say I mind. The moment the nurse said he had the heart beat of a twenty year old I knew where it was going. But it was very well done. I'm not sure what Gatehouse will do next mind, I'm supposing he understood that as an agent of the mahoosive government conspiracy, if he were injured, someone would be sent to make sure he didn't talk, but I get visions of him not being happy about it.
The last part is not going to end well for anyone I fear.
