Series 10 - Episode 2 Discussion

[A Cousin]

Tariq!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!! Haven't cried like that since Danny. I am a little surprised at how much I have come to love Tariq. Never thought I would love another Grid Geek like I loved Malcolm. More power to ya Shazad. First gig out of drama school. Go to, young man!

Holy tap-dancing Jesus! That was a helluva a gripping episode! I was really rooting for Martha to get away from Ilya's hit-squad. Yelled at the screen a lot there. I thought she was going to bolt after Erin handed her the keys at the safe-house.

The Greek tragedy continues, doesn't it? Shade of Oedipus trying to avoid taking down his father by...well...taking down his father! Perhaps a little Medea too? Time will tell. I thought it was Elena in Tariq's CCTV too.

Happy that the ensemble feel of the programme has gone through to the second episode.

Liking Erin. A lot. A new kind of spy, wanting it all, in contrast to Harry. Nice touch there KUDOs.

Interesting slight moral dilemma for Dimitri when Harry tells him to set up the agents murder as a suicide. Remember Lucas telling him "Walk before you can run"? Dimitri passed it on to Calum. lol!

Damn! Alice Krige is one striking woman! That white dressing gown shot was stunning. I saw what Harry saw in her 30 years ago. Great scene between the two of them in the opera house.

Visually, there was a lot of white in this episode. White, white, white... with a generous smattering of black and grey to set off the...wait for it...WHITE! Another nod to a common Film Noir technique, IMO.

Harry and Elena's meeting interspersed with Sasha murdering his co-agent interspersed with the dancer reminds me of something. I feel like it's a direct filmatic quote from something. Felt very Hitchcock or Welles to me. I dunno. I'll place it later. At any rate, it's very Film Noir to have the juxtaposition of something very brutal going on under something so very beautiful.

Clearly Sasha needs some tutoring from the old man in the efficacy of keeping a neck-tie at hand.

Funniest line award goes to..... Jim Coaver for "I thought it was Springsteen." I almost spit my scotch all over my laptop. Clever bastard.

I don't know about Coaver being the impersonator. The evil American? Done already. Several times. Not that he isn't involved. They all are. Maybe he is the impersonator but that is not all there is to it?

At the end of this I realize that I have said not one thing about Harry and Ruth. I think this is being underplayed perfectly. Don't need any more than they are giving me.