Well, that was shocking. I didn't expect Bazza to die, and neither did his mates Alfred and Dave Boy. I don't think my surprise is surprising, given that Hansley Lloyd Bennett has been credit as a main star since episode one.
Since it' TV, Bazza gets a long drawn-out death and a chance to say some dying words to Alfred and Dave Boy. Being in agonizing pain (judging from his guts spilling out), pain focuses the mind wonderfully as it always does.
The rest of the episode is primarily placesetting. I still don't know what's going on with Bet and Katie. Bet is as cheerfully psychotic as always, and she does reach Lord Harwood. Who tells Salt to bring Bet in, which presumably explains the policemen opening fire on her at the house where she and Katie take refuge,'
Potter kills himself after Crowley seduces him with a sex orgy. Martha realizes that Thomas "hired" Crowley to drive Potter to suicide, and is none too happy about it. Alfred gets a visit from his dead father, which leads to several enigmatic encounters as he looks for the stolen money from the last episode. First he chats with Troy's wife Melanie, and she's enigmatic and not very talkative. Then Alfred talks to Troy, who is enigmatic and not very talkative, but eventually denies that he stole the money.
Eventually Alfred, Bazza, and Dave Boy work out that Dobson took the money, if you remember Dobson from episode one in the club, arguing with a Union officer. They go to Dobson's caravan at an abandoned funfair, and there's a big hand-to-hand brawl between Alfred and Dobson in a mirror maze. Dobson gets killed but not before his girlfriend Sheri grabs the money and drives away. She's not a very good driver, and hits a stack of gas cans. And they explode, along with the car, Sheri, and the money.
The shrapnel apparently hits Bazza and guts him, and he dies in Alfred and Dave Boy's arms as mentioned above. He says a few words about America and then expires. And... that's it.
The episode is okay. Paloma Faith and Jonjo O'Neill are good as always, as Bet and Crowley, respectively. I still have no idea what is going on with Bet and Katie, and their little subplot is unrelated to Alfred's as far as I can tell.
Dorothy Atkinson is still good as the passive-aggressive Mary Pennyworth, Alfred's mother. And I'm still amused and entertained by the relationship she and Alfred have, which is unique on any show that I recall. He's tough-as-nails, but Mary walks all over him. Ian Puleston-Davies as the ghost, or hallucination, or whatever he is, of Alfred's father Arthur, is also good: irascible even in death with his comments about how he has no idea where the money is because he's not sitting up on a cloud somewhere.
We're only three episodes in out of ten, and not much has happened. So far the storyline has been focused on Alfred and Mary's kidnapping (and the subsequent theft of the ransom money), and Bet and Katie's adventures. There's a little bit of Union vs. League intrigue, and the Union did bombard London this episode. Episode 4 will be the mid-season finale, so hopefully it'll pull it all together and something will happen after the mid-season break.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
Since it' TV, Bazza gets a long drawn-out death and a chance to say some dying words to Alfred and Dave Boy. Being in agonizing pain (judging from his guts spilling out), pain focuses the mind wonderfully as it always does.
The rest of the episode is primarily placesetting. I still don't know what's going on with Bet and Katie. Bet is as cheerfully psychotic as always, and she does reach Lord Harwood. Who tells Salt to bring Bet in, which presumably explains the policemen opening fire on her at the house where she and Katie take refuge,'
Potter kills himself after Crowley seduces him with a sex orgy. Martha realizes that Thomas "hired" Crowley to drive Potter to suicide, and is none too happy about it. Alfred gets a visit from his dead father, which leads to several enigmatic encounters as he looks for the stolen money from the last episode. First he chats with Troy's wife Melanie, and she's enigmatic and not very talkative. Then Alfred talks to Troy, who is enigmatic and not very talkative, but eventually denies that he stole the money.
Eventually Alfred, Bazza, and Dave Boy work out that Dobson took the money, if you remember Dobson from episode one in the club, arguing with a Union officer. They go to Dobson's caravan at an abandoned funfair, and there's a big hand-to-hand brawl between Alfred and Dobson in a mirror maze. Dobson gets killed but not before his girlfriend Sheri grabs the money and drives away. She's not a very good driver, and hits a stack of gas cans. And they explode, along with the car, Sheri, and the money.
The shrapnel apparently hits Bazza and guts him, and he dies in Alfred and Dave Boy's arms as mentioned above. He says a few words about America and then expires. And... that's it.
The episode is okay. Paloma Faith and Jonjo O'Neill are good as always, as Bet and Crowley, respectively. I still have no idea what is going on with Bet and Katie, and their little subplot is unrelated to Alfred's as far as I can tell.
Dorothy Atkinson is still good as the passive-aggressive Mary Pennyworth, Alfred's mother. And I'm still amused and entertained by the relationship she and Alfred have, which is unique on any show that I recall. He's tough-as-nails, but Mary walks all over him. Ian Puleston-Davies as the ghost, or hallucination, or whatever he is, of Alfred's father Arthur, is also good: irascible even in death with his comments about how he has no idea where the money is because he's not sitting up on a cloud somewhere.
We're only three episodes in out of ten, and not much has happened. So far the storyline has been focused on Alfred and Mary's kidnapping (and the subsequent theft of the ransom money), and Bet and Katie's adventures. There's a little bit of Union vs. League intrigue, and the Union did bombard London this episode. Episode 4 will be the mid-season finale, so hopefully it'll pull it all together and something will happen after the mid-season break.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
