Murder in the First [TNT - Spoilers]

Mr E

Yeah liked that episode. I just knew he had to be shifty - it was definitely telegraphed a bit.

Hard to know what will happen in the finale.

MagicMarker

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Nice twist there with The Union even thought I should have seen it coming.

I don't really understand the twist. It was junior who started all this in the first place by asking for money. Why would he now help the union? Just because of the whole prostitution thing? If so why did he let the money get to the IA guy in the first place?

The Black Oil

All gangsta folk drive Cadillac Escalades. Fact.

Mr E

A bit of a limp finale. The court cased ended as expected, and the Union story trickled out too.
The "hypothetically" conversation was annoying - there is no way that would happen in real life.

It badly needed a couple of "holy s**t" revelations, but they didn't come (Sugar doesn't count).

To be continued maybe? The Dustin Maker appeal and Union trial?

Agent Coulson

Looks like they just used the finale to wrap up all story lines in case it's not renewed and didn't want to leave it on a cliffhanger.

Sugar gives the an out if the get renewed and want to continue a story line into season 3.

The Black Oil

Mr E wrote: »

The "hypothetically" conversation was annoying - there is no way that would happen in real life.

Yeah, it was a bit frustrating, alright. Low key finale, really.

MagicMarker

If there is a season 3 I think I'll be giving it a miss. Unless Hildy and her plastic face are killed off.

The Black Oil

Only now realising that Junior's played by an Irish bloke - A.J. Buckley. Can't say I noticed his natural accent slip through.

Agent Coulson

I think he left Ireland when his family moved to Canada when he was 10 something like that if I remember right it was an interview for Ghostfacers on Supernatural when someone asked him I'd say whatever Irish accent he had then is well gone by now.

The Black Oil

Hah, now you mention Ghostfacers I can see it. Spotted him straight away in Narcos too.

Agent Coulson

Renewed for a 3rd season.

Agent Coulson

Season 3 teasers returns June 19th.

Mr E

Not sure what teasers you posted above AC (I assume the 10 second ones), so I'll post all 4. The last one is a 1 minute full trailer.

Back on Sunday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUd7xiqbJok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA1YZg_kH2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgAO3ThnNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl_On5CMJHE

Agent Coulson

I enjoyed that opening episode. Three storylines on the go and all look strong for the season.

krustydoyle

Just sitting down to watch it now..

johnire

What channel is this on?

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I enjoyed that opening episode. Three storylines on the go and all look strong for the season.

Agent Coulson

johnire wrote: »

What channel is this on?

TNT

krustydoyle

That was a solid start to season 3

Plenty going on and should keep us glued all season

squonk

Yup, good opener. I'm looking forward to the next episode already.

The Black Oil

The media in this are contemptible. The DA is a coward. They played the cancer scene pretty cold.

Good show.

Vic_08

I think i'll give it a miss until the verdict is in on the whole season, the ending to the last one was a dire let down.

Agent Coulson

One storyline replaced quickly I thought they would drag out the cancer storyline all season.

The shooting storyline after they did the dirty deeds could be really good building tension.

The Black Oil

Those detectives were in the nip!

Mr E

Surprised they went that way with the cancer storyline, seemed strange. A bit abrupt.

Did anyone think the director was trying too hard with this episode? Lots of arty shots with things in the foreground partially obscuring faces. Came across as forced and pretentious.

The Black Oil

Yeah, it was abrupt.

Mario Siletti is such an eejit. The timing of this episode and the shooting, eh...

Agent Coulson

Well the Black Lives Matters storyline seems like it ended just as quick as the cancer storyline.

squonk

I'm beginning to get confused with the quickly ending storylines this time around. It seems like the main story is Soletti, which is good, but the others are pretty much red herrings now and I'll be wary of anything that gets introduced. They're just chewing up screentime in an unproductive way. It almost feels like the writers came up with the Soletti vs. Katrina from Suits storyline, went with it but realised there wasn't a full season in it and drew a blank after that so concocted a few more harmless ones to fill in the time.

The Black Oil

Yeah. I dunno, is how they're handling certain stories a Steven Bochco thing?

The Black Oil

I keep forgetting this is on.

squonk

I know! Is it just me or is it more forgettable this season or something. The storyline doesn't appear to be as gripping as earlier seasons.

Agent Coulson

What started out like it was going to be a top season has dropped of the radar for me.

It looks to me like there was a big change to the way they wanted this season to go after episode 3.

They dropped the Cancer & Black Lives Matters storylines very quickly both those were linked with the relationship growing between the main two characters and this could have worked over the course of a season with both of them under pressure for different reasons.

I'm guessing they dropped the Black Lives Matters storyline as it was to much hot potato issue so then there was no point going with the Cancer storyline either.


For this reason the D.A's drink driving storyline which was probably only meant to be a episode or two long becomes the main character storyline for the season along with the murder storyline.

The Black Oil

First season was the murder trial.
Second - Hildy's brother/police internal corruption, iirc.

I might just read the summaries on Wiki this time around.

Agent Coulson

Well the season finished like most of the season had gone as a damp squid.

krustydoyle

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Well the season finished like most of the season had gone as a damp squid.

Yeah, such a "what" ending... wouldn't surprise me if its cancelled

Mr E

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Well the season finished like most of the season had gone as a damp squid.

Squid are usually damp anyway. (Squib)

Weak end to a weak season. I was really expecting Melissa Danson to pop up at Mario's press conference and shoot him. Nope, that would be too much like an interesting development.

As it was, all stories just fizzled out without any payoffs whatsoever, and Mario got away with everything and became incredibly unlikable.

Meh. Hopefully they get a new writing team next year and shake things up. They still haven't topped season 1 (a great and interesting continuous story) - they need to go back to that formula.

bgr123

Enjoyed season 1 but thought S2 was very poor with way too much going on..hopefully 3 will revert back.

Mr E

bgr123 wrote: »

Enjoyed season 1 but thought S2 was very poor with way too much going on..hopefully 3 will revert back.

That was season 3. I thought the seasons got progressively worse. Writers for season 4 need to look back at season 1 to understand what made it so good (a single story for people with above average attention spans)

Agent Coulson

It's been cancelled not surprising really after season 3 being really weak.

The Black Oil

No loss.