Yeah, exactly. I was actually just remembering that recent episode with Bishop and his creepy lizardface lawyer and thinking, you know that was a fairly impressive bit of misdirection. Or maybe misdirection isn't the word, but I think it created this sense of foreboding that sort of dissipated in subsequent episodes - I don't remembering seeing Alicia ever genuinely afraid the way that she was when he came to her apartment and talked to her kids, and she was on tenterhooks for the rest episode. Yeah. If you'd been told to expect something like this, that's the corner you'd expect it from. I remember someone saying when the first episode aired that they thought the kid was the type to commit suicide in prison, and I think, you know, even Will was led to believe he was harmless; even though he wasn't convinced of his innocence, he - and everyone - became complacent about the stakes that they were playing for, and that was really the tragedy of it. You're never complacent with Colin Sweeney or Lemond Bishop.
I think anyone who's been surprised by some sort of catastrophic accident or sudden death (and kind of, when is death not sudden? Even when you think you're prepared for it, when it happens it's always like, today? Not next week or the week after or in a few months or just a year?) can relate, but I sympathize with the people who say that's not what they watch TV for. And especially this show, which I think has characters who are believable adults but still keeps that TV veneer of glossy unreality; they talk to about money but can afford a different suit for every day of the week and Alicia's beautiful three bedroom. I don't live in Chicago, but I have a pretty good idea of what that rent would cost in NYC for example. I definitely understand people quitting the show because it's made them unhappy, and honestly I wish more fans did do that; what mildly annoys me is people claiming the show has jumped the shark because I think this was a very considered move and it's hard to make claims of something being about to go downhill when you don't actually know how anything's going to play out. Unless you're prescient of course.
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Date: 2014-03-25 09:11 pm (UTC)I think anyone who's been surprised by some sort of catastrophic accident or sudden death (and kind of, when is death not sudden? Even when you think you're prepared for it, when it happens it's always like, today? Not next week or the week after or in a few months or just a year?) can relate, but I sympathize with the people who say that's not what they watch TV for. And especially this show, which I think has characters who are believable adults but still keeps that TV veneer of glossy unreality; they talk to about money but can afford a different suit for every day of the week and Alicia's beautiful three bedroom. I don't live in Chicago, but I have a pretty good idea of what that rent would cost in NYC for example. I definitely understand people quitting the show because it's made them unhappy, and honestly I wish more fans did do that; what mildly annoys me is people claiming the show has jumped the shark because I think this was a very considered move and it's hard to make claims of something being about to go downhill when you don't actually know how anything's going to play out. Unless you're prescient of course.