katikat: (W_PiperWindow)
OMG, Russ’ expression when he realized what Milt was about to do in the last episode of the series. When Milt pulled the magazine out of the gun and left only the one bullet in the chamber... you could see the moment Russ realized what was going to happen.

And the whole episode, the beginning, when Milt was sitting in his car, crying. You realized how lonely, how depressed he was, so much so that he literally punished himself with rigorous, neck-breaking training exercise. And at the end, when told the kid’s dad that if it could bring the boy back, he would put a bullet through his brain immediately - you could see that he had thought about it, a lot, because this was no fleeting thought, not something he came up with on the spot. I think he actually thought of killing himself, of ending it, but he decided that that would be the easy way out, he decided that worse punishment would be living with this guilt, day after day, and it was killing him slowly, because the cracks in his facade kept showing more and more frequently - the broken phones, his forced cheer...

And then there was Russ, his realization of what he had been doing to Milt these last months, when he heard Milt talking about how everybody was treating him, how everybody hated him, how everybody wanted to get rid of him, just because he insisted on doing everything by the book because he couldn’t live with what happened in LA. You saw the moment Russ realized that that was basically him, too, that he hated on Milt for no reason at all, and he realized how much it was hurting Milt, he just didn’t see it.

God, the finale was amazing. I’m glad that it tied up all the loose ends. I would’ve preferred if the show had continued, but it was a fantastic finale, that’s true.
katikat: (A_IanMcKellen)
I finally started watching the show and I fell so hard for it, I can't believe it. I'm quite fascinated with the relationship between Russ and Milt, the way Russ hates Milt so very very much, yet he's so fascinated by him - as he said about Milt, "He might quite possibly be more interesting than I thought" - and he can't help but keep digging for more and more info on him... and he comes up empty, every time. Russ doesn't know a single important thing about Milt and that frustrates him to no end.

And then there's Milt and the reason why I'm so obsessed with the show. Milt is so enthralling. He pretends to be a happy go lucky person, but he's not. He's so not. He was demoted for reasons he feels he can't tell anybody. He has no friends. His mother refuses to talk to him. He works alone, his office has just him and his secretary. Other people hate him just because he's very, VERY good at what he does, even though he doesn't rub their noses in it, he's simply doing his job. You can just feel how lonely and broken he is. There are these glimpses of his true self, like when Russ told him that nobody could be a cop and be this naive - and Milt just looked at him, long and unsmiling, and responded, "I agree." Your heart just aches for him...

I can't believe they canned this show, the characters are simply amazing. Luckily, there are some really good fics for the show, mostly Milt/Russ, just up my alley!
katikat: (T_Coffee)
Forever 115-117 )

Battle Creek 101 )

Also, Hannibal will be back on June 4 at 10/9c! link
katikat: (F_Hobbit)
Okay, my dear American friends, a new show starts this Sunday on CBS. It's called Battle Creek and it looks awesome:

Battle Creek, the darkly comic new drama from Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad) and David Shore (House), is set in down-and-out Battle Creek, Michigan, where mobsters run the maple syrup trade and the police force is woefully under-equipped. That is until flashy FBI agent Milton Chamberlain (Josh Duhamel) arrives and partners with veteran detective Russ Agnew (Dean Winters) to clean the place up. "[Russ] has a misanthropic view of the world," explains Shore. "And [Milt] trusts and believes in people." That may sound like the usual buddy-cop cliché, but with Gilligan and Shore at the helm, expect anything but.

Source

Doesn't it sound great? And it has JOSH DUHAMEL, the best thing there was about the Transformer movies! Do watch it, folks, please, do. I don't want it to flop like Chaos did! Sundays 10/9c on CBS!

Profile

katikat: (Default)
don't be dull, be fannish

March 2019

S M T W T F S
     12
3456789
10111213141516
171819202122 23
24252627282930
31      

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated May. 29th, 2025 06:07 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios