Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 62 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT If Our World is Their Heaven
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.06.2013
It's like the old thing about sitting at the red light in the middle of the night, you're just being reminded that nobody's watching you. And even if they are, they can suck it.
Where I think it falls apart is that Gen X paranoia is built around a self-absorption that can be hard to understand from the outside: What the hell makes you so special that somebody is going to watch you masturbate through your Kinect or the webcam on your laptop?
I think of it like this: Who are these people, the actual people, that you imagine to be the They that are holding you down, keeping you paralyzed, judging you silently. Where do they go home to? What song is stuck in his or her head, right this second? What kind of underwear do they wear, would they pick Davy Jones or Peter Tork, what's their favorite brand of laundry detergent? What does it smell like?
When you imagine Them into being -- keeping you afraid and small and weak -- what do you imagine Them thinking about you? What if They think you are beautiful, or smart, or so, so funny? What if you're the thing that keeps Them from quitting their job every day? What if you are Their favorite one, of all the ones They have to watch?
NSA
They listen to Alicia saying goodbye to Neil Gross -- still seeming never that impressed with Cary, for all our dependence on ChumHum to get free and then Bossman appears again. Because nobody thought to screen the Florrick apartment for calls from a teenage girl with a broken heart, and nobody is thinking now to figure out the actual story, they've gotten the warrant upgraded to a three-hop. Proximity to the Governor-Elect is like how Homeland shit starts. So it was a good catch, for a dumb reason, and now literally everyone on the show is potentially under surveillance.
SUPREMES
Eli: "I'm here to start in you just one more time about Diane Lockhart. I scared the piss out of her earlier, so now I'm here to work the other side."
Chief: "I literally do have... These are not 'hesitations,' I'm not 'squeamish,' like I literally think she is a creep because she is spiritually wedded to a creep. It's the same lifeguard shit as ever, it's about judges being better than lawyers and lawyers being better than humans. I have entrenched, sir."
Peter: "On behalf of me, Peter Florrick, you are done with this topic. Or else."