Written By: Chris Hartwell
In "A Most Powerful Adversary", Lindelof and Perotta have once again switched perspectives, tasking themselves with their
greatest challenge yet: justifying why a certain character would choose to kill himself! Even as they navigate around and even dare to dip their toe into some very 'genre concepts', the writers maintain their audience by ever placing their characters in highly
realistic, extremely balanced contexts!
Did you enjoy how the more 'genre/fantastical concepts' were handled?
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Dude, I think I was with you beat by beat for your entire description of this episode. I think the Laurie/Kevin Hotel scene worked really well because Amy Brenneman and Justin Theroux really played it as if they had this history - they have certain boundaries. Laurie (almost) is the mother-superior figure, and Kevin's okay with that - like he's used her successfully to quell his mind before. Yet also in other ways they're relationship is very equal as simple husband and wife.
ReplyDeleteThe more I think about it, the more I'm on board with every decision the writer's made this episode, even the final off-the-wall one.