Post by MS on Jul 30, 2011 21:36:48 GMT -5
Teleplay by Jim Gray and John Shiban (who is also a co-executive producer). Story by Jim Gray.
A delicate teaser scene between Esther and her sister Sarah made all the more saddening by what happens to the latter later on.
A very good guest cast in C Thomas Howell and Mare Winningham.
C Thomas Howell was extremely creepy as the hitman, whose name we never found out, especially in his scenes with Frumpkin and then with Jack and Gwen.
Mare Winningham as Ellis Hartley Monroe was presented well as a rival to Oswald. Presented so well as Oswald’s rival that she even got her own Goldfinger scene.
Jack and Gwen pretends to be a couple with the former using the name John Smith (wonder what made him use this particular name) and the latter speaking with an American accent, something I hope she doesn’t do again.
Oswald in that hospital is the most impressive Oswald scene I have seen so far complemented well by the music.
Gwen looks really good in the black dress she wore at PhiCorp. She uses the name Yvonne perhaps a reference to Yvonne Hartman head of Torchwood One in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday.
The PhiCorp scenes was very good and very exciting and these scenes were served well by the incidental music.
Despite being a benchwarmer, Rhys still manages to unintentionally do something wrong at the end of this episode.
Overall this has been an exciting trip to LA.
The Next Time trailer for The Categories of Lies the fifth episode of this season seems to indicate a repeat of something that was done in the fifth episode of the previous season, the concluding episode of Children of Earth and that is Gwen recording a video message.
A delicate teaser scene between Esther and her sister Sarah made all the more saddening by what happens to the latter later on.
A very good guest cast in C Thomas Howell and Mare Winningham.
C Thomas Howell was extremely creepy as the hitman, whose name we never found out, especially in his scenes with Frumpkin and then with Jack and Gwen.
Mare Winningham as Ellis Hartley Monroe was presented well as a rival to Oswald. Presented so well as Oswald’s rival that she even got her own Goldfinger scene.
Jack and Gwen pretends to be a couple with the former using the name John Smith (wonder what made him use this particular name) and the latter speaking with an American accent, something I hope she doesn’t do again.
Oswald in that hospital is the most impressive Oswald scene I have seen so far complemented well by the music.
Gwen looks really good in the black dress she wore at PhiCorp. She uses the name Yvonne perhaps a reference to Yvonne Hartman head of Torchwood One in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday.
The PhiCorp scenes was very good and very exciting and these scenes were served well by the incidental music.
Despite being a benchwarmer, Rhys still manages to unintentionally do something wrong at the end of this episode.
Overall this has been an exciting trip to LA.
The Next Time trailer for The Categories of Lies the fifth episode of this season seems to indicate a repeat of something that was done in the fifth episode of the previous season, the concluding episode of Children of Earth and that is Gwen recording a video message.