Homecoming Review pt 2
Nov. 15th, 2019 01:04 pmI have today off, so Andrew and I binge-watched episodes 5-10 last night. Slight spoilers, but probably not enough to ruin the plot:
Sales clerk in department store, to Heidi: “What’s your beauty regimen?”
Heidi: “Regimen?”
(Clerk gets terrifying gleeful look of “ooh! someone I can do a demo on!”)
Next shot: Heidi in car, with overdone makeup, sees herself in the rear view mirror, grimaces and begins cleaning it off.
Walter’s mom (Marianne Jean-Baptiste ) needs her own spinoff detective series.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but it seems possible to read both Heidi and Carrasco as non-NT, though that may just be a side-effect of the series’ overall tone— the camera fixes intensely on details of the environment, ambiguous facial expressions, etc. Carrasco gives a really good speech about how yes, he’s just a cog in the wheel, but he’s a cog that turns other cogs, as he’s sprawled on the ground after having tripped over a rack of bicycles. Whigham’s described the role in interviews as “doing microsurgery,” and that he tried very hard to resist tipping over into cartooniness.
Some other reviewers have mentioned that there are no obvious changes in fashion or technology between the 2018 and the 2022 scenes, but anticipating future fashions/tech usually ends up looking corny, and would have distracted from the main storyline.
Yay Checkov’s Pelican!
Hong Chau gets a good scene in the last episode after seeming like a background character, and word is she’ll be back in S2, which is a separate story set in the same universe, like they’ve been doing with <i>Fargo</i>. I don’t buy the theories that she secretly *is* the owner of the Geist corporation, but she does seem to be, or have become, closer to them than her apparent (and now former) bosses.
I also don’t buy the theories that Carrasco looking at the leaf, or the shot of his office chair spinning after he gets up from his desk, mean he quits his job with the DoD. For one thing if he were quitting he’d have begun conscientiously typing up his letter of resignation. He’s just completed his investigation, made his report and elevated the complaint, and now he’s gone home for the day or the weekend. Maybe he’ll even have a celebratory beer. But I think he’ll be back the next day or on Monday morning, dealing with the next complaint on his docket.
Sales clerk in department store, to Heidi: “What’s your beauty regimen?”
Heidi: “Regimen?”
(Clerk gets terrifying gleeful look of “ooh! someone I can do a demo on!”)
Next shot: Heidi in car, with overdone makeup, sees herself in the rear view mirror, grimaces and begins cleaning it off.
Andrew: “Her beauty regiment is ‘being Julia Roberts!’”
Walter’s mom (Marianne Jean-Baptiste ) needs her own spinoff detective series.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but it seems possible to read both Heidi and Carrasco as non-NT, though that may just be a side-effect of the series’ overall tone— the camera fixes intensely on details of the environment, ambiguous facial expressions, etc. Carrasco gives a really good speech about how yes, he’s just a cog in the wheel, but he’s a cog that turns other cogs, as he’s sprawled on the ground after having tripped over a rack of bicycles. Whigham’s described the role in interviews as “doing microsurgery,” and that he tried very hard to resist tipping over into cartooniness.
Some other reviewers have mentioned that there are no obvious changes in fashion or technology between the 2018 and the 2022 scenes, but anticipating future fashions/tech usually ends up looking corny, and would have distracted from the main storyline.
Yay Checkov’s Pelican!
Hong Chau gets a good scene in the last episode after seeming like a background character, and word is she’ll be back in S2, which is a separate story set in the same universe, like they’ve been doing with <i>Fargo</i>. I don’t buy the theories that she secretly *is* the owner of the Geist corporation, but she does seem to be, or have become, closer to them than her apparent (and now former) bosses.
I also don’t buy the theories that Carrasco looking at the leaf, or the shot of his office chair spinning after he gets up from his desk, mean he quits his job with the DoD. For one thing if he were quitting he’d have begun conscientiously typing up his letter of resignation. He’s just completed his investigation, made his report and elevated the complaint, and now he’s gone home for the day or the weekend. Maybe he’ll even have a celebratory beer. But I think he’ll be back the next day or on Monday morning, dealing with the next complaint on his docket.