Hi! I'm still here...just busy.
-Matty has "Oversight" business to attend to...also a great play on words with her all-seeing ability as Big Brother.
-Nothing like walking around freely in a building likely to be held by hostiles. And then of course, getting yourself trapped in a room with fortified walls and no windows. Are we sure these two are trained operatives?
-C'mon, Mac, no freedom fighter who is a #1 target has ever agreed to just leave the country.
-Desi's adventure looked fun. Wish we could have seen more of it.
-More daddy drama.
-Desi's Cairo Day.
-So many transitions!
-Mercer is a great foil for Taylor. Also, we learn a bit about what makes him tick, and what ultimately separates him from just being a heartless merc. Nice touch.
-Great long game by Russ. Nice touch with the Maldives water. Two can play at this game, Mercer.
-Acting Director Bozer is pretty good at this, isn't he?
-It took all of a couple of hours of non-nano-tracked protests for the president to resign? Suspension of disbelief, much?
-Serial numbers? We have our next arc!
A bit light on the observations this week as I did this on my first viewing.
Episode was decent enough. I particularly enjoyed the Russ/Mercer scenes. Thought Bozer was good as well. The rest was a bit disjointed. A lot of shoehorning of messaging (has Riley's heritage ever been brought up before? And how is Mac not already "woke," as the kids say?) that seemed forced against a backdrop of protests for poorly-explained reasons in a former Yugoslav republic (I guess we're just supposed to assume it's all despots, government thugs and misery there). I wanted to care more about Teo, but I was just kind of nonplussed with it all in the end. Seemed more of a vehicle for the will they, won't they (and introducing the next storyline) and neither did much for me sadly. They obviously sent Desi away on some other mysterious assignment to play to that, but the "Desi's Bad Day" check-ins ended up being the thing I wanted to see more of.
Also, knowing that the character was coming softened it I guess, but could Parker have been thrown on us (and Russ) any more abruptly?
Not a swing and a miss, but more like a swing and a foul ball to stave off the strikeout.