Daily Archives: February 19, 2015

Justified S6 E5

Movies

Sounding

Hale gave Ava a much bigger scare last week than I thought. Thinking her cover was about to blown to Boyd, Ava tried to pull a runner. With just a few bucks and no real plan, she tried to get a new car from Ellstin Limehouse. Frantic to get things back in order, Raylan gets Constable Bob Sweeny to track her down before she can get too far and ensures that Albert Fekus isn’t going to reveal that Ava is a CI to Duffy and Hale. Boyd is still gung-ho on breaking into the vault and looks for help in a rather risky person, Avery is now more than annoyed that he can’t buy up anymore property thanks to some meddling. That fortunately puts Calhoun in the cross hairs for giving out information he shouldn’t have.

The three moving pieces of the show have been spinning like tops right next to each other for a few episodes now. I can almost taste the tension in the air. With seven episodes left, I can’t really see how this is going to pan out yet. It feels like the collision is happening really soon, but if it happens in the next 2 episodes, what’s left to explore? And if it doesn’t, the build up may feel like it’s going too long. We keep bumping into the same walls. Ava feels like jumping ship everyday, Duffy and Hale are swooping around like vultures and Boyd is slowly trying to get a working plan in order. With Avery being poked so much by Raylan, it can’t be much longer before he acts to take some people out. Raylan just wants to finally catch Boyd, but he’s really on a timer to get it done now.

Shameless S5 E6

TV

Crazy Love

Not a fan of this episode.

I don’t like what they’re doing with Jimmy. He kept a lot of secrets, but he always remained like able. He broke the law in much the same ways as the Gallagher family, but he wasn’t a scumbag. He and Fiona were a good match until he was forced to leave do to his shady deals.  Now, he shows up out of no where and won’t explain anything. Angela has been floating around for awhile and it sounds like she’s basically his keep keeper. Jimmy seduces Fiona away for a night (not a surprise) but his almost manic need/desire to get back with her makes him a very different person. Is it no more than wanting to move in with her so he doesn’t have to take off with Angela again? How could that be an out to whatever he’s involved in? I hope they give us some much needed answers so his angle makes some sense. After the train wreck of their last coupling, some major work needs to be done. It was incredibly uncomfortable to watch and puts an incredibly negative light on them even being in the same room together now. I guess it’s up to Fiona now…if she gets Gus involved, would it make things (Jimmy) go away, or will it break their relationship? Cheating usually doesn’t end well.

Frank’s back to the bottom of his yo-yo life style. He either takes care of himself or he dies. Everyone’s made it pretty clear that he’s the least of their problems.

With no place to live, Sammi and Chuckie moved into the house. Sammi is trying to plant her flag down as a mother figure to get a bit of shelter security and so far it seems to be working. Debbie is now swimming in the High School pool, so it’s an all new social game she has to figure out. Being internet famous for fighting girls may or may not go in her favor.

Very brief update on Kevin and V…they’re separating and it’s a V’s fault. I’ve got Kevin’s back on this one.

Again, the Ian and Mickey plot is the best of the show. We follow Ian around with his non-plan of kidnapping Ian’s son until he makes a decision so bad it brings heat on him. If there is every a test for a relationship, it’s with mental disorders. Mickey’s concern (and understanding) for Ian was something to watch unfold. That mix of love and anger is hard to pull off, but Noel Fisher keeps knocking it out of the park. Ian recognizes he’s hit a new and scary low and agrees to get help. They’re all lucky things didn’t go even worse or Ian would be going to jail for a really long time. His life would be over, there is no way he’d get the help he needs in the prison system.

Seeing Lip race back home for his family was great too. He wants to get out and move on, but he still has his heart. His relationship with Fiona is now much more mature, but Fiona has been pulled so far from the family to her own world that I’m afraid something horrible is going to happen because of her again soon. I expect a lot to happen in episode 7.