Jumping right in there is a sexy seeming scene that gives off weird vibes with the over the top do’in it music. He tells the woman to cover up. He keeps talking to the woman. Its creepy because she’s not saying anything.
He leaves and the cops confront the woman in the bed.
Cop 2″ Is she underage? Cop 1″No, kinda the opposite. She’s been dead for probably two weeks.”
Cue horrible picture and screaming. Allison wakes up screaming, which wakes up Bridgette. Bridgette tells her to stop doing that.
Joe tells her what depression is, “It’s unchanneled anger.”
Allison responds perfect, “Thank you. Thank you. Everything is different now.” / s
Big mood there bud.
Joe is calling her to the carpet about what is actually bothering her. He’s getting ready for work, telling her that they will call when she is needed. He then asks her if she wants to go to dinner with some of his coworkers. She doesn’t want to.
Weird, semi regretable exchange between them that ends with Joe saying that hes not much interested in her with her legs together. It sounds worse than it was in context but its still bad. I guess it’s something for them to grow beyond.
Devolos (The DA) is upset that his jury selection consultant didn’t do a great job.
AND GUESS WHO GETS THE CALL? Allison. Shocked I know.
Allison brings her toddler to work. Walks into the office with a suit and a nice stroller. The receptionist is nice enough to watch her so the next scene wouldn’t involve a child actor. Good planning. Also definitely a choice because there isn’t a reason she couldn’t have dropped them off at day care or whatever.
Allison basically gets interviewed by the DA about her powers. Definately for the benefit of the audiance. It sets some basic expectations of what we could see into the later episodes.
Allison is being asked to help select a jury for the necrophile killer from the beginning of the episode. She is totally down to find a jury that will put him to death.
Allison meets her husband at the door being excited about her job. Jumps up on him and he kisses her cutely while he walks to the bedroom. She tells him to say hi to the kids. He literally repeats hi to the kids. What a good dad joke. He comments on her good mood and they go into their room and shut the door.
Weird car scene where Joe expresses that he’s embarrassed about her job after listing all the important jobs her coworkers and their spouses have.
Cut to I think Seth Greene, some identifiable actor, is telling a story about this miracle cure his wife figured out for a kid who wasn’t talking.
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Above is Seth Greene – who my brain thought Wallace Langham was. I don’t know why I thought of him. I kinda see it? Maybe. My brain is a weird place for faces and actors.
Dinner guest Gritty… I mean Wallace Langham- keeps mansplaining the story over his wife, whom is clearly uncomfortable with the spotlight about this.
Allison sees into her head. The only true part of the story was that the boy’s first word was, “Jesus”. The boy was sneaking around to get food he was being denied [the therapy was basically starving the kid unless he verbally asked for food- so you know, just abuse] and her blouse had slipped down in her sleep on the couch so she was a bit exposed. That’s what got him to talk.
Cut to a car scene with more confrontation about the issues between Joe and her around her powers. She basically tells him that the woman didn’t tell the story because it didn’t happen the way HER HUSBAND told it.
Creepy dream flash of the murder from the begining with a scene of him cooling off a woman he killed. Again creepily talking to her. The camera pans to her head taped in a bag, indicating she was suffocated. Pretty creepy.
Devolos and Allison meet in the DA’s office. The shaky cam in this is distracting. I honestly don’t know if its intentional or not its so jarring. She tells him that shes never used her gift like this, but in less wo-wo way.
We see Alison, with more shaky cam going through the profiles on the jurors. I don’t know how much of it would actually be the kind of info jurors would be asked to give. [How out of the norm is this?]
Cut to stationary cam of a woman describing how she feels about the sanctity of life as her mother has been in a coma for years. Then she suddenly is moved to frustration and
She gets so into the files Joe calls her at 9:20 [she didn’t realize it was so late] and tells her that she’s fine being late. Apparently she finished her task. She goes to Devolos with the files.
[Look- the DA is so dedicated he is in his office after 9:30 – NO ONE ELSE IS THERE! Go home, Sleep! JEBUS. This show definitely doesn’t depict healthy work/life balance. However I guess no cop show actually ever shows healthy work life balance. She calls out all the stuff she knows and he asks her about some of this info she has and wants to know if its on the questionnaire.[I should look into jury selection questionnaires. I bet they are weird.]
She gets asked to go to court tomorrow.
She falls into bed. Smiling. Joe tells her that she needs to put that smile away because the moonlight is reflecting off her teeth. This shaking cam makes me wanna scream. Hes still being all questiony about her abilities. She says goodnight and turns over. They also definately changed the lighting and camera effect from their bedroom to be way less dark in later episodes? when does that change happen?
Another creepy murder dream featuring the face of the guy who did these murders.
Cut to the courtroom. It looks like Devlos is outta challenges for the jurors selected by the defense. Oh no.
The jury selector from earlier is all mad that someone else got her spotlight.
Allison gets an attaboy about the job she did that day.
Cut to a dream of the murder telling her that he gets off because the woman she thought would vote yes didn’t vote yes. He’s on a boat in vienna canal in full canal boat gear.
The jury is still out so it isn’t over yet. Allison is super nervous about it. Joe tries to convince her that her dream can be wrong.
Allison gets a call and they got the outcome they wanted- the death penalty for this guy. Allison rejoices. Feels weird man.
Allison tells her husband that she’s king of the world. He makes a comment, ” well not atomically speaking. ” UGH.
They sit together to watch the news. The man she sees as the murder in her dreams isn’t the man they convicted and now won the death penalty for.
She calls Devolos and he basically tells her that her dream must be wrong, and this was just the sentancing hearing. There is DNA evidence, so it must be the real guy.
Joe catches her out of bed. They talk. Allison asks her Science Guy [UGH she was admitted to law school she is smart enough to know] how dead on is this DNA stuff. He tells her its almost perfect [SUPER NOT RIGHT but for the lay man okay]. Shes super upset that she might have helped put an innocent man on death row.
Cut to them out to dinner with this same group. Joe takes the first opportunity to out her as helping in this super in-the media case that she now thinks she is helping to “lawfully” murdering someone. She exchanges some knowing words with the woman who helped the kid speak again. The waiter offers wine and she says no, shes the DD.
LOOK AT THIS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN – AN ACTUAL EXAMPLE OF DECENT BEHAVIOR FOR ADULTS OUT ON THE TOWN. This goes towards my argument that Allison and Joes family is one of the healthiest depicted on TV. Blows my mind every time.
The ending is a big shot of her looking at the menu and realizing that the man she saw the murder as in her dreams is the man pictured on the menu in the same Italian garb she saw him in during her most recent dream. The intent, unspoken is that she didn’t help put away an innocent man, but in actuality her dreams were wrong about what he looked like. Then we know that her environment can change the perception of her dreams. There is also a thread of her trying to not use alcohol as a way to make the dead leave her alone.
Overall, this episode is meh. It definately feels like they are trying to lean into getting an audience that is used to the creepiness factor of the crime. It didn’t really lean into empathy for the victims. I don’t remember if they even had names or not. This episode feels more like the answer for the question, “What would she actually be able to do at the DAs office that can be something assigned to her?” I wonder how many of the episodes have this structure vs her having a dream and then figuring it out from there.
Devolos is also proved partially right because he told her he was sure the man he put away was the killer.
I will say on the first watch through I thought she was playing this character really flat and I didn’t love it. On the second watch I can see what she’s doing more clearly and I am actually impressed. She’s playing her character whom is supremely unfulfilled and sick of being uncomfortable in her skin with this ability. She’s finally confronting it, and trying to make the best of it. Every where she turns she’s met with love and well meaning discounting of her abilities. This episode is a small blow to the bit of the “I can’t be wrong” ego that she has in this season. I’m curious to see how long it takes to get to her actually making character growth changes.
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