ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD s1 episodes 4 and 5: ONE RIB and A-BORG
ASTRID AND
LILLY SAVE THE WORLD s1 episodes 4 and 5: ONE RIB and A-BORG
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That’s more
like it. Though the show seems less interested in the Sparrow storyline, here,
he just asks her if she has a boyfriend after he saw Brutus with his arm around
Astrid in the last episode. Also, Astrid is very ridiculous in how she handles
Sparrow on the date as it collapses after the dancing zombies, possessed people
by the allergy of an infected and nice (!) demon type creature from the other
dimension. He wants to just go home and that makes for a nice twist. Astrid needs
to just get it over with and tell him the total truth. He’ll love it. Eggs is
turning out to be quite the hunky intelligent and talented school play actor.
“There’s a
school play?” has to be the funniest line in a bunch of funny lines.
The whole
fourth episode works in a way that the third didn’t. Though I am still not enthralled
by the Christine/monster guardian storyline. It just makes little sense.
Christine herself is a creep from way back as we learn in ep5 that when Candace
and Lilly were just little girls, Christine made Candace stop being friends
with Lilly.
The “recruits”
Christine is getting: they seem to come down the basement of the church and
willingly let the thing take them and put a tattoo on them. Why? Are they
possessed even before they go down there? They see the thing’s hand and don’t
really react. Are they under a spell? Christine herself: is she really a Bible
thumper or just using that to cover her real evil? Or is she just evil? Or is
she just a dope?
Lilly and
Candace reconnect here, much to Astrid’s anger and jealousy. Candace is shaping
up to be this show’s Cordelia from BUFFY. Tate, too, comes through for the
girls, finally and finally realizes the girls’ worth or so it seems. He even
asks them to walk him home!
Astrid’s mom
is better handled and by the end of ep5 she is, at least sympathetic.
Season five
has what could have been another cliché disaster but is not. It is well handled
as a jack in a box is left for various people (Val seems to be the perennial victim
as ALL the monsters target her and usually first or second; has she long to
live in this series? She seems to be impressed by Eggs’ wonderful act as Quint
from JAWS; Candace does Erin Brockovich). Okay, what was I writing about? Oh
yes, the plot: the thing leaves a jack in a box. When opened, it makes the
person enter a world where they relive their worst memory form childhood but
the details are twisted to make the victim think it happened one way when it
really did not. We learn about Astrid’s dad dying and it seems implied that
somehow this brought Lilly and Astrid together? Maybe I’m misreading something
into that?
Tate has his
soccer dad on his case. Val has people mocking her. Lilly has the break up with
Candace. Okay, maybe I’m misreading something else here: Candace seems on the
verge of telling Lilly that she might be gay. Lilly also shows signs that she
is into Candace as more than just a friend, too. More to come on this I hope?
I also like
that they included a gay male couple but the cop is a real dick and arrests
Astrid even after she saves his life and his lover, husband is a teacher who is
so …in deference to the awful Michelle (who I think is the assistant principal
but oddly I can’t find info on this character on the net) and rather wet. Can’t
they do what DOCTOR WHO did in season 12 and have a male couple who act normal,
aren’t stupid and don’t die? Though that is THE ONLY thing that season of
DOCTOR WHO did right.
I like where
this show is going and if given a chance it can be greater than both BUFFY and
LOST GIRL, though it has huge shoes to fill in both cases, especially LOST
GIRL. Tate, Valerie, Eggs, the moms, even Christine, Sparrow, Brutus, and of
course the main two leads, ALL have promise. If the show does what it did in
these last two episodes, it has nothing to worry about …I guess. I mean great
shows on Sy Fy and other places have gone (TURNER AND HOOCH deserves another
season on DISNEY PLUS and I believe it’s been cancelled which is a shame as it
was one of the best four TV shows on TV over the last year).
Glad to see
this show back on track. Other things: Brutus lies to the girls that his memory
was a happy one because he’s not human (though his attempts to experience being
human are hilarious over the episodes). He has a memory of someone being lost
to a portal. Does he blame the girls? Who was that? In any case, he’s an
enjoyable character who has a secret or secrets. Just what this show really
needs.
Sparrow
breaks up with Astrid and who can blame him? Astrid gets blood on her forehead
again. He doesn’t see it this time.
The girls
are, for the first time, annoying as they screech in the alley at night and a
guy yells at them to shut up.
Other than
that, these two episodes are a five out of five.
The skating rink scenes in four are romantic, tense, and wonderfully horror/romance/comedy. Everything is well lit, too, for surreal effect.
The monster
in episode three was vague and is supposed to be, even though similar to the
threat in episode five. I like that in episode four, there’s no real monster of
evil involved but just a poor guy experiencing allergies on Earth (and it’s
gross what the allergies do to him). He’s not wrong either : on the other side,
he’s handsome and the girls agree.
The monster in
episode five is creepy enough and the dance thing in episode four is a
wonderful plot device: funny and horrid all at once. A contagious thing is also
close to home, if you know what I mean.
The episode
five monster is this jack in box female thing with wild eyes and looks a bit like
Annie or Pippi Longstockings on speed. Tate distracting it is hilarious. Also: on
TV, for once the soccer field looks like it is a soccer field in a town.
All in all,
this show is not to be missed for fans of horror, sci fi and even comedy. It
has potential, is fun and enjoyable.
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