I don’t know what happened this week with the show, but it took a 180 turn for me. It’s just the second episode ever of Chaos and I feel like they should have tried more, they should have brought out the big guns, Tarantino style, or at least stick to the same rhythm.
But I’m sad to say that the action was slow if any at all and the comedy just wasn’t there, the drama was just plain boring and the characters weren’t of any use to help save this episode.
First of all I don’t know what’s with all those fired people still walking around the halls of the HQ in their bright white sneakers. In the pilot there was just that big guy but now they’ve multiplied. I guess they’re there to provide small bits of comedy in between the real action, which is cool – they’ve done their part, but I hope they don’t play that out forever. I’m willing to be that somehow in the future there will be a situation where their help will be needed and, of course, they will get their 15 minutes and then return to looming the halls like ghosts in nurses’ shoes. Or maybe they’ll be totally unpredictable and get a job.
Second of all, I feel like I’ve seen this scenario way too many times before. Guy in communist/totalitarian country needs asylum in the US, guy has family back home, family is impossible to retrieve but Americans are such good hearted troopers that they decide to risk their necks for the good of anyone; the American squad makes a get in - get out plan, but they encounter more variables than they can handle and it’s too late to modify the plan, so time for a new one. This time they have to fight, but of course that Lady Fortune is with them and they make it past heavily armed but rather stupid seemly men, without one scratch, and safely get back in the land of freedom. They seem untouchable in every way. Touching reunion makes everyone sentimental and we all hope that next time it will somehow get better.
It’s just the type of episode you expect to see at least towards the middle of the season, if not in season two, when they’ve already had some pretty amazing ones and can afford to slack off. And we’re supposed to find out more about the characters, to be even more intrigued by them, to be watching their every move and hang on their words breathlessly, not to be found thinking about the grocery list while they’re talking. This time Rick and Michael have failed to impress me with anything; Casey and Billy had all the few good lines that were inserted but they’re too stereotypical, don’t you think? Billy, the handsome blue-eyed charmer, with an accent and a mysterious past… Casey, the, I have to admit, not so likely hitter, with his quirkiness, his straight face, his brick wall built to hide his vulnerabilities… although, it was kind of a fondly moment to watch the guys bond and reveal a bit of their secret identities.
Well, at least we found Higgins somewhat taking the ODS’s side this time. Sure he agreed to heir suicide mission, hopping they would fail, but he never indented for them to get killed. I’m curious if his heart will warm up to the guys by the end of the season. But then again, who will be the thorn in their soles? On other news, Currie Graham takes, once again, the role of the obnoxious, evil doer, power driven miscellaneous character, who seems to suit him like a glove. I remember him in The Mentalist and this sort of character, with a crazy twist, really is his thing. But I may be stereotyping him.
That’s it for now. Till next week.
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