This episode is one of the best of a great show, that unfortunately couldn't find an audience. Fearless interacts with "The Freak", one of his best buddies during the Gulf War, while he tries to protect a Russian mom and her little girl from the Russian mob. You learn a lot about why Fearless is the way he is, what his mannerisms mean, and the significance of "The List". One of the greatest things about this episode was how caught up you get in the drama and the action; I was actually scared watching this (how many movies or television shows can you say that about now). Some of the action sequences were a little far-fetched (Movies and TV always make it seem that criminals can't shoot straight), but what an episode. I have season 1 on DVD and watching it makes me miss the show and the characters, and makes me thankful that they were able to get at least 18 episodes on the air before the network began to "tinker".
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I can see clearly now.
sellington-124 March 2007
I'm with Matt...because the stunts Fearless performs in the fourth act really do tax credulity a time or two, but Michelle Ashford opened his character to view for the first time so powerfully that from this episode onward, he's not just a very competent cop with great stories, he's a mensch. I can't say enough good things about this show, however there is a computer-generated necessity to pad my comment with a few more lines of text in order to accomplish the very thing I was hoping to avoid; running off at the mouth...again. Still too short?!
So while I'm at it, I might as well mention that in Episode 3, The Squeeze, the blood seen pouring from the bullet-holed cooler is inconsistent with the subsequent reveal when the cooler is opened showing no blood, whatsoever. I prefer to blame networks for mindless notes concerning bloodlessness in television, that Freaktown and Fearless were the sole surviving members of F-Troop (a corps within a squad), and that Fearless captured the distant sniper in deleted footage by going on and on about a .22 slug lodged near a vital organ in his butt since childhood. And now back to our regularly scheduled comment.
If you liked this episode of BOOMTOWN, you gotta check out RAINES.
So while I'm at it, I might as well mention that in Episode 3, The Squeeze, the blood seen pouring from the bullet-holed cooler is inconsistent with the subsequent reveal when the cooler is opened showing no blood, whatsoever. I prefer to blame networks for mindless notes concerning bloodlessness in television, that Freaktown and Fearless were the sole surviving members of F-Troop (a corps within a squad), and that Fearless captured the distant sniper in deleted footage by going on and on about a .22 slug lodged near a vital organ in his butt since childhood. And now back to our regularly scheduled comment.
If you liked this episode of BOOMTOWN, you gotta check out RAINES.
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