Hooray for Hollywood
(This review contains
spoilers!)
Let’s just cut to the chase: Timeless hit another home run this week!
While on a mission to 1940’s era
Hollywood to save the only film reel carrying Citizen Kane from Rittenhouse’s grasp, Lucy and Wyatt are finally
forced to admit their feelings for each other. The mission goes off without a
hitch, but a surprise twist ending makes things a little more complicated.
One thing I liked is that you’re already
seeing the impact of the Rittenhouse sleeper agent subplot. Every time a new
character was introduced I was always quick to think that they could be
Rittenhouse, even though we saw the actual sleeper agent in the first moments
of the episode. They put this to use when the team first meets the producer
character. In the end he doesn’t do much in the episode, but there’s a really
fun bit where it looks like he’s gonna turn out to be Rittenhouse before joking
that it sounds like a really clichéd spy story.
This episode was really fun overall. I
liked all the modern-day references peppered in here and there, and the set
design and costuming were especially top-notch this week. I loved the scene at
the party where Lucy sings. It captured the feel of that era of showbiz
perfectly.
The one gripe I had this week was with
the scene where Lucy and Wyatt finally admit their feelings for each other. Don’t
get me wrong, the two of them have fantastic chemistry and I can’t tell you how
happy I am that we aren’t gonna have a season of will they/won’t they (by the
looks of it we’re getting something far more interesting), but I really think
the kiss scene should’ve been done a little differently. It felt very soap
opera-y to me with how it was shot and with the overdramatic music playing in
the background. Maybe that’s what they were going for given the time period,
but personally I think it was a little too on the nose.
But the real draw of the episode is
the ending. Talk about a double whammy here. First off you think that the big
closer for the episode is them breaking Flynn out of prison to come help them,
but that’s nothing compared to the grand finale. It turns out Wyatt’s wife is
still alive somehow. They killed someone in the past and made an effort to very
clearly show that he was dead, so it’s likely that whoever that guy was had
ties to the guy that killed her in the past. This is a real gamechanger for the
show, not just because it throws a monkey wrench into Lucy and Wyatt’s relationship
but because of the further possibilities it opens up. What if she turns out to
be Rittenhouse? How cool would that be?
Timeless
Season 2 has been unstoppable these past few weeks, so much so that having
to wait an extra week for the next episode just seems cruel. I’m glad to see
that viewership has been higher than ever for this amazing show, and I really
hope this level of quality is kept up throughout the next seven episodes.
FINAL SCORE
9/10
Amazing
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