#overall enjoyable but not their best

[tyrannuspitch]

hmm okay. thoughts.

i enjoyed it! but they’re trying to do a lot at once and it’s not entirely... coherent? lots of pieces that don’t quite fit. i mean to be fair (gestures to the state of the world) but still... slightly unsatisfactory. and just a bit too wacky all round. like they’re trying to compensate? ://

(the time jump might be part of the problem, i know they like to keep up with real time but. hm.)

everything abt jerry felt insensitive. i know the entire premise of the show is insensitive but... :/

similarly... hi writers yes hello i like your drama with about ten caveats but i do not want to hear your Actual Opinion on the police system. no one does. it’s not going to be good. that one scene in fear response was embarrassing enough

also wish we’d had more ainsley but i guess they might be keeping us waiting deliberately... i like the idea that she doesn’t know she did it, i rlly hope that’s what’s happening

otherwise! i like how dani can tell Something’s up and i like how ainsley seems like she doesn’t even care what’s happened. like, she’s either chill with murdering people, or with malcolm murdering people, or just... completely out of it on unprecedented levels. any of those could become v interesting character-wise

the conversation at the end was good. martin still doesn’t see ainsley as an equal and that will come back to haunt him. and whatever malcolm’s done... okay. so i’m not convinced by the thrill thing - we know malcolm is reckless but we also know he’s constantly walking the line, bc he’s obsessed with not crossing it but he regularly gets close, and i don’t think he’s going to just start ignoring it now - but the more basic idea of knowing something indescribable that most people don’t, of your perspective changing from having been through that, and of feeling like you’re now undeniably One Of Them (not that i think us/them is even a good mindset for this)... that’s interesting. i hope they go deeper with that

and malcolm’s definitely still grappling with that. like... trying it on, almost. testing his sense of identity? kind of embarrassing like he rlly sees any serial killer or witness and goes “is this a therapist” BUT seeing him go “i could be a killer” and trying to work out if he believes himself... interesting. but again, i hope we get to see that go deeper

oh also. pretty sure that the handshake at the end is the first time malcolm and martin have touched... god idek. maybe since the arrest??? (not counting the stabbing of course) (and they weren’t touching during the arrest itself, so it could be as long ago as the camping trip... could even literally be martin trying to get malcolm to stab someone... no i’m not letting this go)