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The Unit, 4x05, Dancing Lessons

Molly is hardcore, yo. Always wanting to put her best foot forward, and then there's Jonas, thinking she's putting too much in. Well: no. Your woman is a damn powerhouse. Also in the hardcore category: Kim, whose role wasn't as big, but whose marriage is a source of endless fascination for me, and whose character is strong. Kim is strong. (I think it's true to say that Molly is swimming in dangerous waters, but it must be something: to pit yourself against Jonas and be given a flat palm.)

~~Tiffy.~~

The case was pretty good. Undercover shenanigans! Chuny! Drowning girl! Verrrry exciting stuff. I like that Bridget is a newbie and so a lot of her ideas get shot down (in the same way that Bob's would once get shot down) but she's still marking them toe to toe. When she and Charles go to get the handsaw - I loved that whole section, hand gestures and all. I liked that everyone got something to do, and I liked that we got the save, although sometimes I wonder if the story shouldn't have gone the other way.

The Unit, 4x06, Inquisition

Is Audrey Marie Anderson pregnant? I go through phases of thinking she is and then realising that she's not, and with the way they dress her, I just get more and more confused.

I liked the conundrum the unit faced this week. We've seen this plot play out as a reveal on Criminal Minds and I like that this time it's not a covert situation: we're on the same page as the unit. Bob in the interrogation, Charles in the apartment (for a while), and Bridget playing go-between. A coherent unit. I like that a lot. I loved the ending, too: sometimes all you can do is put a man into a man's head and hope it works.

Sigh. I love Bridget Sullivan's character, but I wish they'd give her a little more to do than flash her boobs. She's obviously extremely competent, and I know the plot was thin on the ground, but still. She's hardcore. Give her something WORTHY. (Lols, though, her wardrobe is CONFUSING to me. Whilst the guys are pretty easy to box, I still can't work out her figure. Last week with the swimsuit and then some squaring; this week with the shirt that didn't really fit? Gosh, I am so shallow.)

Molly continues to be a lit fuse, and I like how on-her-feet Kim was when confronted by The Wife. What part of 'I want my children back' don't *you* understand? These women fill me with glee when they go toe-to-toe with Ryan. (Ryan screams oppression to me; I see a lot of heavy-handed, over-guarded I-talk-you-listen bullshit in him that I recognise in people I know, and it raises my hackles, so to see the wives pushing at him is something of a relief to me.) This side-show is dragging, though. Let's have a breakthrough already. I get the sense that they don't entirely know what they want the women's story to be, and that was evident this week because we still haven't learned anything new, and both plots were buffered by The Gerhardts' Family Issues. Again.

Sigh. The Gerhardts. To some extent I think the relevant question here was: did they need three plots this week? I don't know with this story any more. I will say this: however tiresome that story is, the actors were on full steam this time around. Tiffy's nervousness and Mack's anger were both played out tightly in that scene where she's cross-legged and he's about to play Russian roulette (I was less convinced by the tears). I just wish it wasn't the same. damn. story. Now that they're getting somewhere with these confessions, is this story going to move forward already? What if we find out it's over? / Hell, it's already over. Yes. Yes, it is. So what's next? What do you do with this thread next?

Other things I have to talk about: the ridiculousness of the situation we are in with our house alarm.