In my reviews of Sons of Anarchy thus far this season, I've constantly been taking issue with this and that. While I don't go back on what I said entirely, those complaints have been moderately trivialized by this week's episode, "Ablation." What's important about the remaining episodes is the direction in which we're headed, not how it was that we got there.
"Swim Deep," Dexter's latest episode, continues what's expected to be its focus all season, which would be questioning everything that Dexter, Deb, and others had thought they knew. Its characters believe themselves to be on the straight and narrow until they're confronted with a crossroads, almost like cross-hairs centered on them, and a decision to make.
Earlier this month, we received the first official photo from the upcoming A Good Day to Die Hard. The following day, filmgoers got their first glimpse at footage of the film in the form of a teaser trailer. Now, weeks later, we have the first of what one assumes to be many posters via First Showing.
Well, isn't that a coincidence? Watching "Toad's Wild Ride," that same question kept popping up in my head. It all felt too convenient, too perfect, and I could see Sutter scheming just as much as I could Clay.
The Girl is said to be based on real events, but it feels as much a work of fiction as any of Hitchcock's own films and never moves past the surface level to make its characters anything more than unexplained hyperboles.
Enter Shane Black, writer of the criminally underseen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as well Lethal Weapon. Because who better to pair with star Robert Downey Jr. than the man who directed him in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the comeback before the comeback (Iron Man) for the newly sober actor? By bringing him in, you get the fresh at the same time as you do the familiar and proven commodity.
Thus far, each episode this season has left me with a number of questions. Some have been of the welcome sort already mentioned, relating to the morality of Dexter's devilish deeds and where this season will take him and Deb, while others have had a more critical edge to them. During "Run," the critical began to outpace the welcome.
This week's episode of Sons of Anarchy, titled "Small World," can be summed up in all of three words. Lies all around. Sutter's series, about to enter the back half of its season, has always dealt primarily in deceit, but now the lies are becoming more plentiful by the second.
Seth MacFarlane is all too familiar with criticism. At the same time, however, he knows success just as well, as evidenced by his domination of Fox's Animation Domination and now by the record-setting success of his first foray into feature filmmaking, the R-rated original comedy Ted.
In weeks prior, commenters have made mention of what seems to be becoming a trend as of late on Dexter, that being the general messiness of Dexter's actions. There appears to be little left of the calculating character who was so adept at evading anyone and everyone.
