It is a delight as a critic to occasionally find evidence that the producers of a series are having more fun than the viewers.
This seems the case here. In other reviews I have de-constructed how the team behind the camera decided to re-do the formula for the series on the fly, in real time, and if this episode is any indication, they are on the right track.
Clearly the aim here (and this is indeed a series where the writers do seem to have their own Bucket List) was to riff off Mission Impossible. Astonishingly they do a nice job.
Anyone who has ever watched a lot of TV probably guessed the moment the beautiful Elaine Tan walked on screen that her character was being coerced -- but the real fun was in knowing that Team POI was going to have to both pull the impossible heist and rescue the child hostage being used for leverage.
Lots of places where it could have gone wrong but it did not.
And the idea of using an iPhone to show snips of Reese doing the rescue was even better than watching the real rescue.
Great entertainment
This seems the case here. In other reviews I have de-constructed how the team behind the camera decided to re-do the formula for the series on the fly, in real time, and if this episode is any indication, they are on the right track.
Clearly the aim here (and this is indeed a series where the writers do seem to have their own Bucket List) was to riff off Mission Impossible. Astonishingly they do a nice job.
Anyone who has ever watched a lot of TV probably guessed the moment the beautiful Elaine Tan walked on screen that her character was being coerced -- but the real fun was in knowing that Team POI was going to have to both pull the impossible heist and rescue the child hostage being used for leverage.
Lots of places where it could have gone wrong but it did not.
And the idea of using an iPhone to show snips of Reese doing the rescue was even better than watching the real rescue.
Great entertainment