Here's a little game for you. Notice how much screen time is given to characters that three episodes back, weren't part of the parcel. There is, most noticeably, Stevie, the former Mrs. Grayson, and then there's Brooks and Javier. While regular Charlotte has now been scaled down to glorified walk-on. Okay, there I'm exaggerating, but her part has been getting smaller and smaller. In this episode, she is merely the liaison for a plot development, her "gossip line" brings in the tip re Emily's medical records. And screen time goes to at- this-stage inconsequential character Brooks, and that layabout Javier, whom I shudder to think why he has been brought in to co-habit with Nolan. Speaking of which: Alas, Nolan might lie back and announce that he has some ideas left, but Gabriel Mann, the fizz of your character here has gone sour. Seems it's all gone along with his boyish hairstyle of the first two seasons.
Emily Thorne/Grayson: has anybody else noted that she appears to be wilting, transforming into this totally consumed wreck, a shadow of her former self?
Yeah, Jack, Mommy left ya, Mommy's explanation: I was an alcoholic. I deserve another chance. After all Jack's recent trials and tribulations, he is just too accepting too quickly of Mommy's explanation.
First it was the Eastern invasion. Everything Japanese. Finally, rid of that! Now, it is zee French. Karin Vanasse is not enough, now we have Olivier Martinez as well. What's wrong with good old American characters? Ze touch of ze exotic just doesn't work for this series, it was its Number One downfall in the credibility department.
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