This hour had filler written throughout it.
It appeared busy, however not an entire lot occurred on Good Girls Season 3 Episode 9 – at the least not sufficient to propel the storyline ahead an excessive amount of.
We have been additionally reintroduced to 2 characters who will seemingly have loads to do with the remainder of the season, however to date have simply been dropped into our laps with nary an introduction.
The juxtaposition of Beth and Phoebe, at first, was clearly displaying us contrasting girls.
That’s all properly and good, however we don’t know a factor about Phoebe — at the least not sufficient to make us care.
Phoebe is being positioned to be the brand new Turner, and it looks like her addition to the present may repay in the long term, however proper now her scenes together with her accomplice really feel extraordinarily disjointed from the remainder of the motion.
As she will get nearer and nearer to closing in on the ladies, it will likely be fascinating to see how the sequence performs the police angle this time round.
My greatest criticism about Good Girls Season 3 to date is that it doesn’t really feel wholly totally different from previous seasons. It’s nonetheless the women attempting to one-up Rio and get out from beneath him. We’ve seen this story earlier than.
Heading into the back-half of the season, there must be an injection of one thing spicy to lift the stakes or throw issues utterly off target. Whereas by no means boring, it hasn’t felt all that contemporary as of late.
The plot to kill Rio did acquire some traction, however does anybody suppose this plan is really going to go off with no hitch?
Rio ought to have died on the finish of Good Girls Season 2 if that was at all times the imaginative and prescient for his story. He’s been sorely underutilized this season, and having him taken out by an nameless sniper could be a horrible ending to his reign on the present.
Beth is fairly laser-focused on eliminating Rio, and Rio unknowingly pushed her even additional when he had her contact that gun.
Whether or not you want Beth and Rio collectively romantically or not, you must admit that their chemistry is off the charts. Their scenes at all times pop and are highlights of any given episode.
And the scene between them on the bar late night time was no exception.
Beth had no thought what Rio was enjoying at, and you would see the wheels in her head turning as she tried to determine it out.
Rio performs chess, not checkers. And he at all times has the lengthy sport in thoughts. He’s given Beth a variety of rope over time, however it looks like he’s simply grown bored with it.
Rio: That is what he used to care for your pal by the way in which.
Beth: Why?
Rio: Incentive.
Although he’s positioned himself as being above her ever since he discovered about their counterfeiting ring, he wanted to one thing to, properly, incentivize her.
The gun does that and extra as a result of it forces Beth to be on her best conduct, which is all Rio appears to need from her at this level.
A Rio-centric episode could be the perfect factor the sequence may do as a result of his general motives and aspirations are such a grey space for the viewers. There are a lot of givens about him like he’s good, grasping, pushed, however how did he turn out to be that method? Why does he STILL preserve Beth round?
These are the questions folks need to know. A villain works finest when he’s a least partially shaped, and never a complete enigma.
Whereas Beth’s plotting a person’s loss of life, she’s apparently blind to the state of her marriage.
Rio has infiltrated Dean’s mind, to the purpose he’s in fixed competitors with the person for his spouse’s consideration.
I’m not the largest Dean fan in the mean time, however you couldn’t assist however really feel unhealthy for him when Beth ditched his large night time to fulfill with the world’s greatest sociopath.
Aspect observe, I do know this present thrives on black humor, however the “sniper” was so excessive that it didn’t really feel actual. Beth simply handed over $30,000 to a random man she didn’t vet, who scheduled his murders like he was speaking about scheduling his haircuts.
It was too outlandish, and all of the crimson flags went instantly up.
Getting again to Dean although, if Beth asking him to remain goes to be the turning level of their marriage than okay. But when not, how lengthy can they maintain this marriage of comfort?
Ruby’s family is popping right into a little bit of a scorching mess, with everybody however harmless Harry shedding themselves.
I perceive the place Ruby is coming from, as a result of she’s misplaced herself in so some ways, and she or he doesn’t need Stan to really feel that method. However on the flipside, Stan’s hit a wall, and he’s fed up.
Neither Stan nor Ruby are unhealthy folks general. However man, they’ve put themselves in positions that need to trigger them a variety of self-doubt about who they’re as folks.
Ruby particularly. She did what she felt was mandatory to avoid wasting her daughter’s life, and subsequently, she’s needed to proceed doing morally questionable issues to guard the individuals who imply most to her.
For Sara, she’s a confused child, who sees her Mother as being lower than good, and it’s throwing her for a loop. She solely sees one aspect of the state of affairs, which is the issues she would get in bother for, her mother is doing usually.
Discovering out why Ruby began down this path was vital for a lot of causes, though the supply was harsher than Ruby would have ever supposed it to be.
Sara comes throughout as very petulant, however it’s usually exhausting for adults to recollect the vary of feelings that youngsters undergo on not only a day by day foundation, however actually by the hour.
Hopefully, realizing extra about her mom and studying the reality will propel their relationship ahead.
Odds and Ends
- I sincerely hope Ruby’s scooter stays round for the remainder of the season.
- Annie remains to be being Annie and this storyline has simply gone a bizarre route that doesn’t make an entire lot of sense. Annie shouldn’t be getting tutored by her therapist’s girlfriend.
- The women have achieved all types of questionable issues, however the stealing of the nail polish and pinning it on these girls was particularly cringeworthy.
Alright people, this wasn’t my favourite hour should you couldn’t inform! Now it’s your flip to let me know what you guys thought!
Will Beth undergo with the plan to kill Rio?
Do you suppose the sniper was truly an actual sniper?
What do you guys need to see occur earlier than the tip of the season?
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