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kathleen_dailey) wrote2023-04-29 08:00 am
kathleen_dailey) wrote2023-04-29 08:00 am
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Mrs. Davis: Episode 2
My liking for this show isn't shared by my viewing partner, who is more convinced than ever that my taste for quirky and weird has now progressed (or maybe regressed) to bizarre and demented.
Spoilers follow.
In the Vulture critic's words, "the whole thing is one big metatextual tap dance atop the fourth wall."
Episode 2 shows, in a flashback to 2001, the first meeting of Lizzie and Wiley. They're in adjoining beds in a hospital room, where Lizzie (apparently in no pain whatsoever) is awaiting a transplant because her liver has been damaged by an arrow--shot from a crossbow inside her mother's booby-trapped magic-trick workshop--that's still protruding from her torso.
In the present day, Lizzie/Simone learns that Wiley is now involved with an underground anti-AI resistance group. One of the group members informs Simone that she is The Chosen One, and mystibabble ensues. Later, the scene that so dismayed some US reviewers shows Simone (who is, after all, a nun and therefore, according to the old Catholic metaphor, a bride of Christ) kissing her husband, Jesus-called-Jay. Damon Lindelof has said in interviews that the falafel restaurant is a "metaphorical space" that represents Simone at prayer, where she receives Grailquest guidance from Jay, her divine spouse. Fine by me. I was just happy to finally see a Jesus who wasn't blond-haired and blue-eyed, and who actually looked something like the Person Himself probably did (if His biblical backstory isn't just fan fiction).
The plot point of the old man seeking his wife's piano--and finally finding it in that vast, eerie desert of pianos--triggered a completely unconnected memory of James Keelaghan's haunting song Kiri's Piano. That was a very nicely shot and directed sequence.
Leaving aside the possible horse murder (which I still hope didn't actually happen), I'm finding this show--so far--to be diverting, clever, absurd fun.
Someone mentioned that the show reminds them of the later seasons of Preacher. I can kinda see that, but I'm hoping that the resemblance will turn out to be superficial.
Spoilers follow.
In the Vulture critic's words, "the whole thing is one big metatextual tap dance atop the fourth wall."
Episode 2 shows, in a flashback to 2001, the first meeting of Lizzie and Wiley. They're in adjoining beds in a hospital room, where Lizzie (apparently in no pain whatsoever) is awaiting a transplant because her liver has been damaged by an arrow--shot from a crossbow inside her mother's booby-trapped magic-trick workshop--that's still protruding from her torso.
In the present day, Lizzie/Simone learns that Wiley is now involved with an underground anti-AI resistance group. One of the group members informs Simone that she is The Chosen One, and mystibabble ensues. Later, the scene that so dismayed some US reviewers shows Simone (who is, after all, a nun and therefore, according to the old Catholic metaphor, a bride of Christ) kissing her husband, Jesus-called-Jay. Damon Lindelof has said in interviews that the falafel restaurant is a "metaphorical space" that represents Simone at prayer, where she receives Grailquest guidance from Jay, her divine spouse. Fine by me. I was just happy to finally see a Jesus who wasn't blond-haired and blue-eyed, and who actually looked something like the Person Himself probably did (if His biblical backstory isn't just fan fiction).
The plot point of the old man seeking his wife's piano--and finally finding it in that vast, eerie desert of pianos--triggered a completely unconnected memory of James Keelaghan's haunting song Kiri's Piano. That was a very nicely shot and directed sequence.
Leaving aside the possible horse murder (which I still hope didn't actually happen), I'm finding this show--so far--to be diverting, clever, absurd fun.
Someone mentioned that the show reminds them of the later seasons of Preacher. I can kinda see that, but I'm hoping that the resemblance will turn out to be superficial.