Chance is starting to have some symptoms of a beating. He was slugged by that guy with a sucker punch. We are always suspicious of his sense of reality. Winter is becoming more and more in his head, causing him to have a couple flip outs. His temper is hair trigger at this time. Nicole is trying to get things straightened out after her assault on that little snot. D is starting a relationship, but can we trust this? She comes up with what she says is Winter's DNA sample. D discovers a woman who is out to find him so his father can have him committed. Once again, a totally engaging episod.e
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Episode 5
bobcobb30111 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The Lucy scenes were not that plentiful, but I just have no interest in that character. Winters DNA not being found was a good twist, but it was the cliffhanger at the end with him (potentially) revealing his history that has me waiting for the next episode.
This wasn't a perfect episode, but it was another strong episode of this show.
This wasn't a perfect episode, but it was another strong episode of this show.
"The Collected Works of William Shakespeare" SPOILERS
hilaryjrp19 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
"The Collected Works of William Shakespeare" was a weapon earlier in the season. It's not completely accurate to say that this season, "Chance's" female characters personify social responsibility and integrity. After all, Nicole is flirting with a prison stint for taking D's "grandmaster" words too seriously. But in this episode, the male characters wrap their bruised spirits in literary references, historical trivia, and other abstractions ("software decay"). With the exception of D, who has fallen hard under a beautiful pregnant woman's spell, not very different from how Chance fell under Jaclyn's, every male character except D loses control.
Chance almost beats down a guy in a parking garage for speeding and hallucinates seeing Winter at the clinic. Hynes smashes lab beakers when DNA samples from Winter's comb don't match what was found under the boy murder victim's fingernails. And then Winter butchers a young mother who happened to sit on the same bench he did while he was stalking Lucy. Hynes warned Chance in the preceding episode that breaking into Winter's psychotic and evil psyche might let lots of devils loose, and belatedly, Chance sees that butchering people is Winter's coping mechanism. All these men operate on a continuum of increasing insanity.
Two unlikable female characters, Lyndsay and Kristen, do due diligence professionally. Lyndsay tries to keep Chance away from Winter and tells him that while Winter "has to" trust him, she does not; does NOT! Kristen sees professional danger in Chance's not telling her who beat him up in Episode 1. She places a call to the one authority that will ensure even more threat to everyone at the clinic—the D.A.
So is (generally, this season) female social responsibility right and good--or naive and wrong? Are Robin Hood Eldon and his band of not-so-merry men not insane at all?
The episode balances narrative and character exposition so well, the audience doesn't have time to breathe. When Hynes quotes St. Augustine to Chance--"the truth is a lion; it doesn't need to be defended; it only needs to be set loose"—he quotes with a bottle of whiskey he intends to drink dry, as his commitment to bringing a very evil man to justice has just cost him his job. He dreams out loud of the day San Francisco will give him a ticker-tape parade. Without Hynes, the second season of "Chance" would not exist; and anyone who has watched this season past "The Collected Works of William Shakespeare" knows how his dream works out.
Chance almost beats down a guy in a parking garage for speeding and hallucinates seeing Winter at the clinic. Hynes smashes lab beakers when DNA samples from Winter's comb don't match what was found under the boy murder victim's fingernails. And then Winter butchers a young mother who happened to sit on the same bench he did while he was stalking Lucy. Hynes warned Chance in the preceding episode that breaking into Winter's psychotic and evil psyche might let lots of devils loose, and belatedly, Chance sees that butchering people is Winter's coping mechanism. All these men operate on a continuum of increasing insanity.
Two unlikable female characters, Lyndsay and Kristen, do due diligence professionally. Lyndsay tries to keep Chance away from Winter and tells him that while Winter "has to" trust him, she does not; does NOT! Kristen sees professional danger in Chance's not telling her who beat him up in Episode 1. She places a call to the one authority that will ensure even more threat to everyone at the clinic—the D.A.
So is (generally, this season) female social responsibility right and good--or naive and wrong? Are Robin Hood Eldon and his band of not-so-merry men not insane at all?
The episode balances narrative and character exposition so well, the audience doesn't have time to breathe. When Hynes quotes St. Augustine to Chance--"the truth is a lion; it doesn't need to be defended; it only needs to be set loose"—he quotes with a bottle of whiskey he intends to drink dry, as his commitment to bringing a very evil man to justice has just cost him his job. He dreams out loud of the day San Francisco will give him a ticker-tape parade. Without Hynes, the second season of "Chance" would not exist; and anyone who has watched this season past "The Collected Works of William Shakespeare" knows how his dream works out.
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