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4.10 Coming Home Bruce: "Corn, wheat, soybeans... back in Indiana, we don't farm bodies." About as heartwarming as a Dead Zone episode gets. When they walked into the retirement home at the beginning, Johnny immediately got a vision of someone dead, and I thought, wouldn't it be stranger if he didn't, with it being a retirement home and all? So I liked that the denouement was in that vein. The spider coming out of Beebe's mouth was a big hint that Spider was the Shadow Man, and I thought for a while that he was killing them, as I was supposed to. I'd heard of body farms before, but didn't catch on until just before Johnny and Bruce started tripping over bodies. That final scene with Sarah and her father resolving their differences was supposed to be the big one, but it felt awkward and forced to me. I was much more strongly moved by Johnny telling Sarah what really happened when her mother died. Leaving aside the strangeness of Johnny being with Sarah through this sort of family situation instead of Walt, this episode worked pretty well. I laughed out loud several times (especially during Johnny's act as "Jonathan the Mysterious") and like I said, was moved by that scene about Sarah's mother. I also thought it was a nice twist having Bracknell live at the end, and decide to donate his body, making Johnny's vision come true. Interesting parallel, having a "Sarah and Daddy" episode right after a "Johnny and Daddy" episode. Come to think of it, we had a superior "Bruce and Daddy" episode in season two, didn't we? Is Walt going to get a Daddy episode, too? (I don't think "Ascent" counts.) Bits and pieces: -- Foxglove Retirement Home? Isn't foxglove a poison? Never mind, I guess it's appropriate. -- Marty Bracknell played drums at one point, a little continuity with Sarah's music thing there. -- Florida to Maine. Gotta say, not a good idea for the elderly; the cold will probably do him in. -- Nicole deBoer looks nothing like Ed Asner. Just saying. -- Okay, Beebe's pink coffin. Imagine eternity in a pink coffin! And what happens to the coffin when someone is cremated? I thought it got burned, too, but it didn't here. Do they sell it second-hand to somebody else, or just rent them for people who are getting cremated? "Hey, got a great deal for you on a used, pink coffin..." -- At one point, Sarah said to Johnny and Walt simultaneously, "Ask your son." -- In this week's hair report, wouldn't it have worked better for Sarah's pink hair to be more extreme, and to coincide with her long hair phase? Quotes: Old guy: "Lock your doors. He's coming for all of us." Sarah: "I hope he's not my father's roommate." Johnny: "You never had a punk phase, Walt?" (Wouldn't it be fun if he did? Imagine the flashbacks!) Bruce: (looking away) "Is it like the Crypt-Keeper?" Not great, but definitely watchable. Three out of four stars, Billie View all comments or post a comment. |
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