With only two episodes left, you’re starting to see things fraying at the edges for everybody, either they are building something new or tearing it down. Gordon is losing his mind and has become a paranoid weirdo who can’t make computers as well as he use to. Cameron and her motley crew are celebrating what Mutiny had become and will be in the future. And Joe is looking forward to his life in California. What could go wrong! Jesse. That’s what could go wrong. Once again though Gordon has nothing to do at all with this story line and comparatively it’s much more exciting than Gordon’s breakdown.
I’ve talked a lot this season about what Gordon’s purpose is and can be this season and this entire arch for him has felt very meandering and lost. Maybe part of that is because his brain is slowly dying but it’s also really weird to see outside of everything else. Gordon can be a likable guy. But just like every character on this show they have their dark side. And seeing Gordon go through this slow decay is pretty sad. He’s hallucinating, he’s paranoid, and what could’ve become violent with Stan. You have to imagine that he will Die sooner rather than later. There is no cure (at the moment.), and he can’t continue this way anymore. Him turning on his wife and being taken away by cops is rock bottom.
Every since Donna and Cameron drove to planned parenthood. She has taken a bit of a backseat to main story lines, and that’s a shame because she carried the show for a few episodes and was next to Joe the most interesting and compelling character. She didn’t have much to do this week other than being a catalyst for other characters to continue their story. She halfheartedly talked Gordon down and then had some nice chats with Cameron about the future of Mutiny. I hope her story doesn’t just end with her leaving mutiny to take care of Gordon especially after such a slower second half for her.
“What do you mean you told our daughter “Son of a Bitch!”
Joe moving on and going to California with his blushing bride never seemed like it was going to go as smoothly as they thought. But him reacting to Jesse – the new, young, tech guy– was pretty great. Annoyed by how young he was and what he planned to do with the company. So to take his mind off it he did drugs in a nightclub with his wife and made out with another couple. I can understand it, it’s been a tough couple of weeks. And Joe Rambling about the future was pretty funny only for the fact that he seems to have predicted the future spot on without any changes. Also a shout out to his clothing. Don Johnson called, and he wants his jacket back.
Cameron and Tom had an adorable, but small part this week about their love life and the word ‘love’ it’s incredibly cliche but cute at the same time. It was also nice to see Tom not run away the second Cameron and him got into a fight. His explanation that ‘people fight all the time, I’m not going to run away because we are talking.’ was a nice refreshing moment after he just dropped another cliché of listening to the Ex over the new boyfriend. Of all the secondary characters I think Tom has made the biggest impact and also the most significant change. From unknown to really likable.
“Dafuq”
But the magnum opus of this weeks episode was seeing Jesse’s evil master plan come together and start WestPoint. Now before I go any further there was some weird time jumps like Joe’s honeymoon that threw me off how long he had actually been gone. It seemed like an artificial jump that wasn’t really shown or talked about. So seeing that Jesse and crew were able to redo and change Mutiny into West point it a nebulous amount of time was incredible weird and stretched believable bounds. That being said Joe was looking for Cameron, all disheveled and apparently high, Was tough to watch such a proud, confident character have no Idea what to do. He repeated himself and was begging for someone to believe him. But it never came. And in all honesty I felt sorry for him, one thing this show does a lot is having characters reacting to the Show’s portrayal of them and not individual reactions. And Cameron saying that she didn’t believe Joe was tough to watch because she had just trusted him and warned him less than a day ago.
