Right, so after a rather gripless cliff hanger last Friday involving Sophie's discovery of Hunter's med school plagiarism, Monday leads with three main story lines which is pretty much Shorty running through some housekeeping. None of tonight's episode called up the main mystery plot which involves Tracey, her brother Doug and the bent copper situation; a scenario which for now continues to captivate me, but given Shorty's tendency to overdraw on shameful secret/mystery lines I'm not holding my breath (see: last year and Maia and themurderofEthanmadnessthatneverendsit justgoes on andonmyfriend... some people started writing it not knowing what it was, and they continued writing it forever just because...).
So Sophie has caught Hunter purchasing his uni essay because he's all sweaty with potential H.I.V and stressed over his deadlines. She winds up defending him, and asking Daniel to hack the varsity computer in attempt to rectify the situation. Badass Daniel is momentarily revived to serve this purpose, a mild relief from Divorcee Kid Daniel and I Dont Understand Girls Daniel. Anyway it turns out there's nothing anyone can do about the essay which is fine really, because the whole point of the essay is to create a moral foil for the Kieran/Sean/Sophie problem. Sophie realises her defence of Hunter is comparable to Kieran protecting Sean about Morgan's murder. Because one ethical conundrum is totally interchangeable with the other, yes. Kieran's like "come back Sophie" and I KNOW they're keeping Kimberly Crossman -perhaps one of the more watchable Shorty teenagers since the days of Minnie and Nick- on the show by marrying her off to Kieran, but I AM SO BORED OF SEEING THOSE TWO TOGETHER. One more scene of Adam Rickett looking guilty and Sophie blindly declaring her love and I will be convinced they are actually recycling footage. Clearly the Morgan thing is going to be played out to the hilt here. One of the major critiques I feel like I will probably want to reiterate about SS a lot if this blog continues is that the pace and escalation in this show is just off the radar lately. The Traditional Christmas Cliffhanger had all the fizz of premature ejaculation during a one night stand; I really don't feel like Morgan's death and the debauched Mitchell brothers etc etc is enough to sustain this Sophie/Kieran crap.
In the meantime, Gerald has taken over Yvonne's/Libby's role as P.A. Rachel is being a bitch at work as per usual (I swear, Angela Bloomfield must have been directing last year's sloooww plots and gone 'screw it, I'll just get in the scene and mess up some drama myself). Gerald accidentally discovers she plans to close the PCC, and suffers a dull moral crisis. He goes to confide in Yvonne at her bedside, who literally spends half the scene asleep (Alison Quigan, phoning it in, really). This all eventuates with Gerald telling Callum that Rachel plans to close Callum's "baby" the PCC, and sets the cat among the piegons for what will not doubt be a riveting week of hospital politics/Rachel/Callum drama. Is it just me or did we not get nearly enough Rachel/Callum sexy time to justify this level of beaureau-romantic tedium?
Finally, we have some Warner vs Warner boys2men stuff going down. After the paintball episode of last week, there is some deep male bonding and rivalry lately. As far as I can tell this is in order to get Dr. Isaac McLusty all dressed up as a soldier and soccer player respectively. But we are seeing some serious brotension between Chris and Isaac, tonight centering around Harry. Basically in an attempt to curry favour with him, somehow Isaac does Harry's math homework, gives him beer, and lets him play a fantastic sounding 'gamestation' (love Shorty bizzarro world technology) game hilariously called 'Murder Kill' (R16!!!!). Chris is furious. Somehow the Chris/Harry/Isaac trio later wind up at a fundraiser for Harry's soccer time- yep, Harry plays soccer now, it reminds me a lot of that time when Harry got a pet bunny purely so it could be killed off so Harry could learn about death. The soccer thing is actually on location, which shifts the whole tone of the show askew with the exterior lighting, as is always the case when Shorty shoots outdoors. Chris and Isaac try and onemanup each other in a goal shooting contest, Isaac kicks a soccer ball into Harry's face and bruises it (Harry is so annoying I found it irresistible not to be pleased by this) and the whole episode ends with Isaac sleeping with Harry's math teacher, who is ... really skanky... even for a walk on role. Where is this all going? Uncertain, other than that I guess Harry is learning more about sleepovers than fractions.
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