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Ehh, it's a living.
Peaked during childhood, that has always been the issue.
My two Foggy points from this episode: first, that there's no way this job offer isn't a setup of some kind. Maybe Hogarth somehow knows Murdoch is Daredevil and wants to bring him into a closer orbit, I dunno, they don't pay me.
I've seen a fair bit of iffyness about it on twitter, and there were definitely a couple of parts I had trouble with, but overall I thought it was a really strong finale and an above average episode.
On paper the performance probably shouldn't work, but I think at a certain point her consistency of being almost entirely off-tone in every situation tipped a scale and started working in her favor.
If I never see another scene where someone falling is rescued by someone else falling faster it'll be just fine.
I think it could work if not for the fact that Daredevil has now basically done his origin story.
A thing I learned from twitter this week: Michael Stipe has an instagram, and it's got tons of selfies with various celebrities, and usually Stipe's head is centered with loads of negative space while whoever he's photographing himself with is halfway out of frame.
It is, after all, a show about lawyers that features courtroom scenes about ten percent more sophisticated than an episode of Night Court.
It's funny that I have inverse problems between Daredevil and Jessica Jones. In Daredevil, there's a character (Foggy) who a lot of people viscerally love, and not only do I dislike him, I can't see what others are appreciating.
I agree, as someone with zero kids. To me, the "my family" speeches in shows often sound like Charlie Brown adults talking. Bernthal's I was totally on board with.
Best episode of the season so far. I liked all the Elektra stuff, I liked the date even though I haven't enjoyed the Matt/Karen romance so far, and I even thought Foggy was good.
It itches my brain a bit, but there's been the odd shot of him stopping to pick one up off the floor, and that narratively scratches the problem enough for me (just like I don't need to see every character in a shootout stopping to reload).
His pacing and grace notes were just phenomenal, and that was a lot of talking to get through.
I feel like there's such a disconnect between what the writers are writing for Foggy and how the actor is choosing to play it, it's impossible for me not to be consistently distracted by the performance. Every beat and note in the dialogue, he interprets in a way that drains the juice out of it and feels phony. And…
I agree with Caroline that “the last time I saw her I was holding her lifeless body in my arms” was a pretty clunky line, but everything in the scene before that was riveting. He killed that monologue, and they really gave it room to breathe without it feeling belabored. Best scene of the season for me so far.
That was the scene I grumbled about in the episode one comments. It's written quite effectively as "Foggy pulls out the Badass card and shows his value" but it ends up landing as "Foggy talks for a long time and then the situation defuses because the scene is over".
I know I'm in the minority position on Foggy, and that he is generally beloved.