I've read some of the top reviews for this episode and the same thing comes up again "another Heist episode".
I was looking forward to this heist episode, I'm watching the show as it's coming out so being able to actually look forward to an episode knowing it's going to be a big one feels a lot different compared to a quick press of a button to continue the adventure, this and one other show is what I do this for...
To say this episode was overhyped for me is in fact more of a bitter shock than an understatement for two reasons, they could have done so much more with the episode due to it being almost an event like entity, and the margin between lucid reality of the show merging rather spectacularly with the ridiculous bordering on impossible which makes the whole "Sherlock can tell little details" cliche look possible.
To this post spoilers are abound, the whole episode ruined within a moments glance at the next sentence, beware.
Rosa WON!!! oh boy, who knew right? Well I mean it's a pretty easy guess at first but really, it's too easy, as a note why would you from the get go make it obvious who the winners could be, three teams of two, meaning there's only 6 people who could potentially win therefore completely closing the opportunity for side characters I.e. Kevin, Hitchcock, Pimento, Vulture even savant, melclaypnos or whatever they choose couldn't be done, going down this path lead to two, Boyle or Diaz, oh I wonder who's going to win when a network is fighting against the backlash of anyone to stay P.C. (not a dig at all and shouldn't even be a problem if everything is actually equal but it's not so make it happen - more a side note if anything) but yeah Rosa did it and man does she have to be capable of time travel and have psyonik powers to get to it, she knew jake would use the gas, she knew cheddar would be there, fair cos he/she whatever always is buttt, how would she know when or how, how could she bank on cheddar eating the gems using only ham to train an already flawless dog. Did she actually plan for 4 months (which is when the next one takes place, after cheddar ya know, get em on outta there, in advance to have another heist and then another 2 months? Bill's always crease tho but again you know he's going to be in it so, idk his part is good tho imo, take it like this there isn't really a side story at all in this episode and that means the only thing you have to think about in between what happened is what happened to Bill, seeing him get worse and worse is great it reminds me of "Cricket" from "It's Always Sunny".
There's a lot more ridiculous stuff going on in this episode of 'what cops are actually like in America' including a weird therapy thing that would've been better as a continual side story to jake getting therapy throughout the season leading up to this as a reveal in Halloween, just saying.
There's some good standard self conscious humour, the characters are pretty standard without any deviance at all from there usual writing (I loved Holts phone calls to Kevin, authentic and off beaten path) Rosa did seem a little different at the end but I think it's because she's taken more of a main character role.
Unused characters are such a big problem for this show, even last season had Kevin as a middling role, why isn't there any bigger things happening now?
And I've written this for too long now so the bits above give you the gist, it's alright far from what they could have done and is an obvious backtrack from the scale of previous episodes, especially considering this is the 3rd to last episode, cast back to the last episodes of the other seasons as reference!
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