S7 E3

They cranked up the sexyness in this episode! The animosity showing from Sean just gets greater and great. He sees Christian as a road block and looking back, he always has been. What benefit does Christian have to Sean? I really can’t see any at this point and it’s clear Sean doesn’t either. In fact, with sleeping with Kimber, he’s been passive aggressively “getting back” at Christian.

This was a really great episode because it focused solely on the old trilogy of Kimber, Christian and Sean. They’ve all screwed each other since the start and nothing has changed, until the tragic end of this episode. Kimber has been one of my favorite characters in the show and seeing her kill herself was a sad ending to her story. She truly loves Christian, but he’s such a piece of shit he can never love her back (like he said). Even going back to Sean to tell him their affair was over, Sean put her in her place…what they were doing was never about loving each other, it was about saying “fuck you” to Christian. This horrible, dysfunctional tripod finally fell over when Kimber falls back to her plan C: Dr. Mike who basically casts her aside, just like she did to him. All hope lost with no love left, she ends it.

While the show is razor sharp in it’s focus on these characters, it feels like the writing suffers because of it. There’s a lot of glossing over and ignoring consequences and even other characters in the show. With Christian ramping up the kink factor (thanks to the man in the title of this episode) he thinks he’s found that missing piece in his puzzle. Sean finds out and tries the same to Kimber and it freaks her out (as she is trying to break up their affair). That scenes was so awkward and bizarre because Sean pretty much attacks her at the start of the scene. She finally gets him to stop and he says some lame “Christian told me you liked this, I just wanted to really see” and they both just move on like nothing happened. Also, no one comes to the house after a panicked 911 call from Kimber after Christian’s little bathroom session? I agree in the end it’s not that important to see every single detail, but it’s one of those things that takes me out of the show (like when Christian accidentally kills Wilbur’s mom a few seasons ago and there is no investigation despite there being a shit load of evidence all over the place). There hasn’t been a single mention of her daughter, he doesn’t even look like she’s been living with her and Christian. Matt doesn’t have her, he’s still a mess and we haven’t seen him in 3 episodes. Characters are all about forgotten until they are written into the background of a scene as if to say “See! They’re not dead and forgotten!” It’s just leaves the show feeling amature in nature because the writers make these elaborate and dramatic events but expect to the viewer to tighten down their blinders to ignore all the stuff that doesn’t make sense. It’s really sloppy (the most glaring being Sean’s last wife being killed off in the most random, yet convenient way possible last season).

That said, these events are a big speed bump for Sean. He’s been beyond thinking about moving on, he’s hooked up with his old colleague to do more with his life. He’s been sleeping with Kimber. It’s all about dividing himself from Christian in every way possible. With Kimber dead, his secret affair disappears with her, but the guilt of her being gone makes him (seemingly) abandon his plans for working in Africa. That’s disappointing to me, but he still doesn’t know about Christian forging his name so that could still be an excellent catalyst for Sean to leave. Now, with Kimber gone I’d like to see her really gone, but judging from the preview of next week, she comes back as Christians conscience. I’m not a fan of that. We’ll see how they handle it.

6 episodes left.