Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Sweet/Vicious Episode 3: Sucker. Deeper Characters; Still Too Much Tyler


Late in Episode 3: Sucker, Jules (Eliza Bennett) FINALLY comes up with something to contribute to the master beat-rapists-senseless plan that she and Ophelia (Taylor Dearden) have been working the kinks out of since Episode 1: they've started informing the victims of the fates of their rapists in an attempt to give said victims some form of closure. While this is still rather dark subject matter for a still pretty awesome comedy, its interesting to see how this show has managed to continue to surprise me with incredible writing and interesting concepts like this. If only Tyler would keep his freaking nose out of it...
Look, even if you haven't seen a single episode of this kind of amazing show yet, know that, while its definitely not for the easily offended, it never shies away from the very soul of its concept. Jules no longer feels so much like a victim as a person who suffered and refused to be defined by the crime perpetrated against her and Ophelia remains her mostly trusted sidekick and, when these forces combine, comic gold and great things tend to happen. Throw in the fact that the whole BLM-themed arc for Harrison seems to have come and gone without any long term consequences and you have a show that still remains at the top of its quality even after three episodes that...basically give the viewer the same plot over and over (let's watch a bunch of rapists get mugged and assaulted because that would be awesome!). Hey. If you can make it fun, keep doing it!
As for bad, can someone give Tyler (Nick Fink) something interesting to do already? I'm okay with the character as is for the moment (he's basically Jules' romantic interest/noose tightener) and I understand why he continues to pop up every once in a while (he's kind of unknowingly pivotal to the whole Jules/Ophelia murder cover up), but, man, does he feel completely wasted as a character. He still hasn't figured out that Jules is a rape survivor (despite the obvious signs), he doesn't seem at all perturbed by Jules' behavior around both himself and other men and, considering its really the only reason he's here, he's so freaking slow to figure out that something might have happened to his stepbrother that it almost feels rapturous when he finally realizes that foul play might be involved. And, while we're on the subject of Tyler's stepbrother, why the hell did Jules attack him in the first place? The police were already after the douchebag and it was only a matter of time before they came down on his head! The cop even said that his victims had "lawyered up" and were coming for him! I thought Jules was supposed to go after the guys that got away...
Whatever. Its still a great show, the characters are still fun (except for Tyler) and there seems to finally be some kind of settling going down in the whole story arcs. The fact that even Fiona (Lindsay Chambers) seems to realize that the string of attacks don't coincide with the official reports (muggings vs. attacks on the rapists) seems to indicate that the writers know they can't maintain some oddball sense of secrecy forever. My only question: when someone does figure out the connection, who's in bigger trouble? Jules/Ophelia for the wave of assaults, the rapists for getting away from it or the campus/city police for blowing off the investigations? Even with some of these growing pains still apparent, I can't wait to find out.

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