Good, action-packed ep.
A couple of cheap cliffhanger devices were used again, and will be next week too apparently. These are wearing thin on me.
I dunno, it feels like Alan Ball is having trouble seesawing between telling the story with wit and a dash of irony, and telling an earnest, melodramatic fantasy story. Maybe I'm just too used to the Joss Whedon touch or something. But Ball has that too, as Six Feet Under showed. Then again, that show wasn't afraid of the melodramatic either. Hmm...
Still, some great scenes. And it passes the "HBO test" by showing things on television that I have definitely not seen before (Maryann's kitchen activities for one).
I'M WITH YOU GUYS OKAY, I AM, I JUST HAVE SOME RESERVATIONS SOMETIMES DON'T HATE ME.