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quarter_to_fiveI really love this episode, enough to go an rewatch it, which I haven't done in years with anything. It's got great character stuff that amazingly manages to avoid being total sap (or maybe I have a higher tolerance for sentimentality than I expected if it's characters I like?) and a really fun, seedy-noir vibe all the way through.
- "Max Thursday" is an excellent name, especially for a dead plot catalyst.
- Speaking of, that's a lot of solid comedic mileage out of one corpse.
- Steele in tux and bowtie, leaning against the wall of the seedy gym. Be still, my subtext loving heart.
- Tarot and astronomy. You can't tell someone's future, can you?
- Laura crouches on top of her coffee table, for some reason, to change the baby. She does that a lot, using furniture in not entirely orthodox ways.
- Oh, yes, and poor Steele falls victim to the tragic 1983 West coast shirt-button shortage. Again. Not that i'm complaining.
- Steele hustling around 80's LA, shot diagonally, is strangely charming, in a cheesefest sort of way.
- The gangster's telephone is built into a box! It's own box! Did many phones have a box in the 80's?
- Tiny, manic Laura bullshitting her way through cornering the fight is awesome.
- Fisticuffs!
- Aw, that ending. The mirrored fight, not the sappy balcony bit. He can deny the past all he likes, but it's still there.
- Aw, the sappy balcony bit.
Unbelievably Awful Wtf Were You Thinking, World, 80's Clothes Meter - not too bad, actually. Laura's workout gear and side pony-tail are probably as bad as it gets.
- "Max Thursday" is an excellent name, especially for a dead plot catalyst.
- Speaking of, that's a lot of solid comedic mileage out of one corpse.
- Steele in tux and bowtie, leaning against the wall of the seedy gym. Be still, my subtext loving heart.
- Tarot and astronomy. You can't tell someone's future, can you?
- Laura crouches on top of her coffee table, for some reason, to change the baby. She does that a lot, using furniture in not entirely orthodox ways.
- Oh, yes, and poor Steele falls victim to the tragic 1983 West coast shirt-button shortage. Again. Not that i'm complaining.
- Steele hustling around 80's LA, shot diagonally, is strangely charming, in a cheesefest sort of way.
- The gangster's telephone is built into a box! It's own box! Did many phones have a box in the 80's?
- Tiny, manic Laura bullshitting her way through cornering the fight is awesome.
- Fisticuffs!
- Aw, that ending. The mirrored fight, not the sappy balcony bit. He can deny the past all he likes, but it's still there.
- Aw, the sappy balcony bit.
Unbelievably Awful Wtf Were You Thinking, World, 80's Clothes Meter - not too bad, actually. Laura's workout gear and side pony-tail are probably as bad as it gets.
