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No, THIS is a cliffhanger.
Or is it?
I LOVE DANI AND TIDWELL. I LOVE CHARLIE AND TED. I LOVE CHARLIE FLIRTING WITH SUSPECTS. I LOVE CHARLIE AND BOBBY AND TED. I LOVE CHARLIE AND BOBBY AND DANI AND TIDWELL. All of the awkwardness in this episode was AWESOME. Also, Ted is dubious.
All through people calling Dani a "girl-cop" (and inquiring about "lesbos") and "honey", and Dani having to spend all this time in bars, I was all DANI WOULD LIKE SOME TIME AT THE GUN RANGE TO MAKE UP FOR NOT PUNCHING ANYONE IN THE THROAT. And then she got it! AND THEN SHE ALSO GOT TIDWELL. Did I already say I loved that? I loved that.
And Dani doesn't want any of Charlie's figs! And Charlie shoots up a random door (um, I really, really hope he'd already worked out that there was nothing and no one behind it. I'm sure he did, right?) and a whole barful of cops draw their guns and it is AWESOME.
Um. Hi. I really, really liked this episode. There was a RANDOM TIGER NAMED FLUFFY. Hi.
And then. AND THEN. Oh, hello, talky menacing arc stuff! AND A KIDNAPPING!
But... not a cliffhanger, in the sense that they're all kind of "and, that's the end of the episode, see you next week when Dani and Charlie go off and do something else, maybe Charlie will eat cactus of something." And yet! Charlie is in peril! They just left Charlie in peril and wandered off!
I can't decide if this is a really interesting narrative decision, like maybe innovative-bordering-on-avante-garde, because they know that we know that they're not going to kill or maim Charlie, so why even bother pretending that Charlie's survival is a big source of tension...
Or if maybe it's just crappy writing? But I don't think... I mean, it would be a strange direction for writing to be crappy in, right? If you're going to be crappy, you take your trope and you stick to it, it's the path of least resistance. Right? I mean, I guess they could be trying to be innovative and have it not work, of course, but all we need is a veiled comment or two from Charlie about how his evening went and it just continues being tense and mysterious, because they're obviously going to do something to Charlie, take him somewhere, he's obviously being played for some purpose, and if we don't get to see what happens when they take him, then it all stays weird and mysterious and interesting, and I think that could work.
So on the whole: I loved this episode, and show, please do not fuck this up. You get a whole second season to run around in! Don't blow it!
Also: GLITTER ON CHARLIE'S FACE. TIDWELL WANTS TO HELP INTERVIEW THE BADGE BUNNIES. And Dani is just seriously too busy for anyone's bullshit.
Also also: WILLSAFFRON OLIVIA PLEASE JUST REVEAL HERSELF TO BE EVIL SOON? It's freaking me out how she's acting all sane and rational.
And, you know, telling Ted's girl-students that Charlie was his bitch in prison. To which Ted responds with nothing but a slight smile. \o/
I LOVE DANI AND TIDWELL. I LOVE CHARLIE AND TED. I LOVE CHARLIE FLIRTING WITH SUSPECTS. I LOVE CHARLIE AND BOBBY AND TED. I LOVE CHARLIE AND BOBBY AND DANI AND TIDWELL. All of the awkwardness in this episode was AWESOME. Also, Ted is dubious.
All through people calling Dani a "girl-cop" (and inquiring about "lesbos") and "honey", and Dani having to spend all this time in bars, I was all DANI WOULD LIKE SOME TIME AT THE GUN RANGE TO MAKE UP FOR NOT PUNCHING ANYONE IN THE THROAT. And then she got it! AND THEN SHE ALSO GOT TIDWELL. Did I already say I loved that? I loved that.
And Dani doesn't want any of Charlie's figs! And Charlie shoots up a random door (um, I really, really hope he'd already worked out that there was nothing and no one behind it. I'm sure he did, right?) and a whole barful of cops draw their guns and it is AWESOME.
Um. Hi. I really, really liked this episode. There was a RANDOM TIGER NAMED FLUFFY. Hi.
And then. AND THEN. Oh, hello, talky menacing arc stuff! AND A KIDNAPPING!
But... not a cliffhanger, in the sense that they're all kind of "and, that's the end of the episode, see you next week when Dani and Charlie go off and do something else, maybe Charlie will eat cactus of something." And yet! Charlie is in peril! They just left Charlie in peril and wandered off!
I can't decide if this is a really interesting narrative decision, like maybe innovative-bordering-on-avante-garde, because they know that we know that they're not going to kill or maim Charlie, so why even bother pretending that Charlie's survival is a big source of tension...
Or if maybe it's just crappy writing? But I don't think... I mean, it would be a strange direction for writing to be crappy in, right? If you're going to be crappy, you take your trope and you stick to it, it's the path of least resistance. Right? I mean, I guess they could be trying to be innovative and have it not work, of course, but all we need is a veiled comment or two from Charlie about how his evening went and it just continues being tense and mysterious, because they're obviously going to do something to Charlie, take him somewhere, he's obviously being played for some purpose, and if we don't get to see what happens when they take him, then it all stays weird and mysterious and interesting, and I think that could work.
So on the whole: I loved this episode, and show, please do not fuck this up. You get a whole second season to run around in! Don't blow it!
Also: GLITTER ON CHARLIE'S FACE. TIDWELL WANTS TO HELP INTERVIEW THE BADGE BUNNIES. And Dani is just seriously too busy for anyone's bullshit.
Also also: WILL
And, you know, telling Ted's girl-students that Charlie was his bitch in prison. To which Ted responds with nothing but a slight smile. \o/