Arrow (television)
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marinessI finally got around to seeing Arrow, which a rather alarming number of you suggested I snark.
And...surprise: I kinda liked it. Oh, this is certainly not a great show, by any means, and some of the more feminist minded among you are not going to be thrilled by some of the plot lines, andaliettedb is going to groan out loud at the Evil Island plot line, and the script has some decidedly weak points, and I think we can all agree, quite kindly, that the acting....varies. But – blame it on dizziness and fatigue, if you like, it was also surprisingly fun on a pure popcorn level.
Nonetheless, I'd been called on to snark. So, as a reader service, the first episode:
We OPEN on a hooded man RUNNING and RUNNING through MULTIPLE CAMERA FILTERS. It's just like ROBIN HOOD except with HEAVIER BREATHING. Hooded man SHOOTS a FLAMING arrow at a PILE OF STICKS to summon some STUNNED Chinese fishers who are PROPERLY AWED to see that a WHITE MAN survived Purgatory Island.
Voiceover: I've been here for five years. It kinda sucked. Mostly because the CAMERA FILTERS kept EVERYTHING GREY. I've thought only of one thing: surviving! Surviving! And returning home. Clearly not COUNTING to ONE. And maybe SHAVING since it's going to take the MAKEUP PEOPLE a LOT OF TIME to keep putting this thing on my CHIN. I am OLIVER QUEEN and I am OUT FOR JUSTICE. Also, coffee.
TITLE CREDITS
Newscaster: Hi! I'm going to ask you to overlook the horrifically faked look of this faked newscast and instead focus on the important stuff: Oliver Queen is alive and is very very rich. Also, he was kinda a jerk before the whole exile on the island thing and beat up on camerapeople. If you think that's jerky. We do, but, you know, we're the press.
Doctor: Oliver's all bruised and broken and not exactly talkative, but I think I can promise you are going to love his chiseled arms.
Moira: Oliver, since your beard has now been REPLACED with manly stubble, I shall hug you and call you my beautiful boy.
Oliver: Although I should be thrilled to see my mother after five years on the island, my CLOSEUP will show that I feel UNCERTAIN about this. Quick, before either of us has to start ACTUALLY ACTING! Off to our great stone mansion!
Me: Oooh. Want house.
Walter: Hi, I'm Walter, Walter Steele, your father's old friend. I'm not suspicious, really, whatever the soundtrack and my actions MIGHT BE IMPLYING.
Oliver: It's unclear whether or not I remember you. Or my mother. But I DEFINITELY remember the housekeeper to the point where she and l will clasp hands for SOMEWHAT LONGER than is strictly necessary! Let's not delve too deeply into what this means. Oh, hi sis, the only person other than the housekeeper I don't find at all suspicious!
Laurel: Hi, I'm Laurel, currently pretending to be just an innocent lawyer in Legal Aid. Really. Ignore any indications otherwise, oh comics fans. Moving on. I am preparing a class action lawsuit that none of my coworkers think I can win! And – crap – I've just learned that my sister died on the Queen's Gambit, the same ship that sank leaving Oliver Queen shipwrecked on that island for five years. This could be awkward. Also, you'd think someone would have CALLED ME about this rather than letting me hear it on TV surrounded by coworkers.
Oliver: Let me lighten the tension by walking around with only a towel. Well, lighten the audience tension, at least. Wow. I'm both heavily scarred AND well cut!
FLASHBACK to the QUEEN'S GAMBIT before it got SHIPWRECKED. It is RAINING in a nice HOLLYWOOD rain kinda way.
Dude: This storm's been UPGRADED to a CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE. Captain THINKS we should turn back!
Me: YOU THINK?
Dude: Well, to be fair, I'm kinda doubting the whole hurricane thing, since the boat is HARDLY MOVING, much less ROCKING the way it SHOULD BE in a hurricane.
Sarah, choosing this moment to SHOW US HER LEGS: And on a considerably more important topic, WHERE'S THE BOTTLE OPENER?
Oliver's Dad: ...I'm thinking that this whole thing between you and Sarah isn't going to go well.
Flashback ENDS as Oliver's friend TOMMY arrives, taking Oliver into a QUICK HUG.
Moira: Ok, time for awkward dinner conversation, where we will all TRY to pretend this is NORMAL and that I am not SLEEPING with your father's former business partner.
Walter: I didn't realize you spoke Russian!
Oliver: I didn't realize you wanted to sleep with my mother!
Tommy and Thea: Well, this is awkward.
ANOTHER FLASHBACK takes us to BACK to the ship which has still NOT LEFT the hurricane.
Sarah: I think the hurricane's close! But not so close that I can't slip in a bit of exposition that you are cheating on your sister with me!
Oliver: Oh, it's not –
Ship is suddenly CAUGHT IN A BIG WAVE, which is KINDA WHAT HAPPENS when you take a SMALL BOAT into a CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE. I am FORCED TO PAUSE THE SHOW and GO GET SOME BOOZE. When I RETURN everything is TIPPED OVER. Sarah SLIDES out of the ship and PRESUMABLY DROWNS although since this series is BASED ON A COMIC BOOK and WE DON'T SEE HER BODY I am already GUESSING SHE SURVIVES. Men PULL OLIVER into a SMALL BOAT which is going to be EVEN LESS SAFE in a hurricane if THIS IS REMOTELY POSSIBLE. Original boat SINKS SINKS SINKS to the bottom of the sea which is PRECISELY WHY boats of that size usually go AROUND HURRICANES not THROUGH THEM.
Oliver: Guess it's time for me to OPEN this MYSTERIOUS BOX. Then, I shall go visit my sister, and call her "Speedy," which is not going to be any type of foreshadowing or anything.
Tommy: You sister got hot. NOT THAT I NOTICED. I add, unconvincingly. Er! Instead, let me drive you around, a process that will also allow me to slip in more exposition! Like! The city is sinking! Laurel hates you! It's PAST TIME FOR A PARTY!
Oliver: Unfortunately, since Laurel is my DESIGNATED LOVE INTEREST, I kinda HAVE TO MEET HER. Best done with a surprise visit to her workplace!
Laurel: Dude, you cheated on me with my sister and then let her drown.
Oliver: ...I'm sorry?
Before anyone can wallow TOO MUCH in the ROMANTIC ANGST, Oliver and Tommy are ATTACKED BY MASKED MEN. Before anyone can GET INTO the violence, it is interrupted by ANOTHER FLASHBACK.
Oliver's dad: Since we're all about to die, first, here, have some water! Second, now seems like an excellent time to tell you that as a human being, I kinda suck.
Masked men: Time for some torture!
Oliver: Or, time for some superheroing! Let's do that instead!
Superhero stuff ENSUES, involving lots of CHASING AROUND and JUMPING and SWINGING ON CHAINS, ending with Oliver KILLING someone, supposedly in the NAME OF SECRECY but also possibly because OLIVER HASN'T HAD MUCH COFFEE YET although I MAY BE PROJECTING. This is followed by an AWKWARD MEETING with a POLICE DETECTIVE who is understandably SKEPTICAL of Oliver's claims that the masked men were TAKEN OUT by a GUY IN A GREEN HOOD, and a somewhat MORE touching moment between Oliver and the HOUSEKEEPER, Raisa, who is shaping up to be the ONLY DECENT person on the show.
Moira: Well, now that that's over, Oliver, what with the masked men and you vanishing for five years, I have to give you a bodyguard/chauffeur.
Diggles: Hi! I'm your friendly ex-military bodyguard! Let me show you my competence by immediately LOSING YOU. From a MOVING CAR.
Oliver IGNORES this rather ALARMING security breach, choosing instead to construct the Batcave Arrowcave. He then THREATENS Adam West, someone I forgot to mention before, who is ALSO a target of Laurel.
Oliver: And now that I've established my THREATENING side, time to establish my covering PLAYBOY image with a PARTY!
Tommy: And I shall take advantage of this by providing the one really good joke of the show!
Oliver: Damn it, is that my sister buying drugs?
Thea: Yes, but, in my defense, the last five years? Have sucked.
Laurel: Just ignore me, because, really, there is no reason for my presence here that will not seem brutally contrived. But, let's have a conversation about my sister's death again.
Oliver's phone: BEEP!
Laurel: What was that?
Oliver: A reminder that I need to tell you that I'm still, for all intents and purposes, a scumbag. Go have fun.
Laurel: And you said you hadn't changed. I'm just not sure how to deal with this honesty!
Oliver DEALS with it by ENTERING AN ACTION SEQUENCE which includes a LOT OF SHOOTING ARROWS AT PEOPLE and SWINGING DOWN WIRES to a ROOF.
Detective: Ok, that does it. I am SO SHUTTING DOWN this party. I mean, forget the drugs. We're now talking ATTACKS on PERFECTLY MEAN BILLIONAIRES here. Oliver, you jerk, did you even TRY to save my daughter on that boat or did you just let her drown?
Oliver: I can only answer this emotional moment with PARTY ON!
Tommy: Er, do you find it a MILDLY strange coincidence that you just HAPPENED to insist on having your party RIGHT next door to where the Green Arrow dude ATTACKED a PERFECTLY MEAN BILLIONAIRE, the same Green Arrow that earlier SAVED US? And I'm not just asking because by another mildly strange coincidence I HAPPEN to have the SAME NAME as one of the BAD GUYS in your COMIC BOOK.
Oliver: No.
Tommy: Party on then!
Perfectly Mean Billionaire: Oh, come on. $40 million does NOT JUST DISAPPEAR! How did this happen?
Camera SHOWS us an ARROW TIP with some sort of BLINKING computer chip EMBEDDED in his wall.
Audience: Quite possibly because you PAY your cleaning staff so LITTLE, they don't BOTHER to remove BLINKING ARROWS from your walls?
[Seriously, I'm all for big plot holes in superhero things, because, well, it's the genre, but were you honestly going to tell me that given the police invasion, NO ONE would have noticed the blinking computer arrow thingy in the wall? I mean, IT'S BLINKING.]
Another FLASHBACK to the LIFEBOAT from hell, which is now NEARLY OUT OF WATER even though REMEMBER they were IN A RATHER WET HURRICANE WITH RAIN and IT'S STILL CLOUDY. Daddy Queen SHOOTS the other surviving man and HIMSELF which KINDA EXPLAINS Oliver's CURRENT MOODINESS.
Show: Let's hurriedly move on from that by shoving in some late bits of exposition! First of all, several people are telling their lawyers about money that has unexpectedly arrived in their bank accounts, suggesting that the city has an Angel! Or, if we are going by appearances and a joke earlier in the script, a Robin Hood! Second, Laurel and Tommy have occasionally been sleeping together! Third, Oliver's mother kidnapped him!
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I didn't bother to snark the later episodes, and I'm not entirely caught up yet, but some less snarky/spoilery comments:
1. The death count on this show is pretty high, and Green Arrow seems, I dunno, kinda blasé about the people who die along the way? I'm kinda surprised he isn't just knocking them out with neurotoxins or something (look, this is not exactly a realistic show as it is, so let's just handwave my neurotoxin thingy.)
2. I can already sense that the island backstory is going to keep bugging me. Originally, I was just bugged by the whole "Hey, we're in a category two hurricane, and yet, the ship's barely rocking," followed by ENORMOUS WAVE OF TERROR, and then, I was bugged by the ridiculous "The boat was sabotaged!" when HELLO THE NOT VERY LARGE BOAT WAS IN A HURRICANE AND GOT KNOCKED OVER BY A SUPERWAVE what sabotage did you NEED exactly?" Anyway. Now, I'm bugged by the entire presence of SECRET PEOPLE on a FREAKY ISLAND. I'm getting reminded of Lost and not in a good way. I think it was cooler back in the pilot when it was just Arrow running around the island all alone and constantly saying I WAS ALONE I WAS ALONE I WAS ALONE I DID NOT HAVE FREAKY PEOPLE HANGING ME UP IN NETS!
So. Yeah. So far the flashbacks have been pretty irritating. As was the finding of the boat. Geesh.
3. I kinda prefer Green Arrow with the geeky girl in IT. Yes, I know that isn't the Official Comic Story and that Oliver and Laurel still have Feelings and have had some Nice Moments. Having said that, it's the 21st century and we're all grown up now. Maybe Oliver can have a nice relationship with two girls at once? Although since Laurel already assured us that she is looking for a one girl guy, I guess not. On the other hand, this is the CW! So, let's not lose all hope here.
4. I do like the twist that so far (episode 5) the stepfather initially presented as slightly questionable in the pilot is turning out to be a decent, straightforward guy, even if he's the CFO.
5. I covet the house, because it is a really cool house. I hope they end up shooting arrows from it!
And...surprise: I kinda liked it. Oh, this is certainly not a great show, by any means, and some of the more feminist minded among you are not going to be thrilled by some of the plot lines, and
aliettedb is going to groan out loud at the Evil Island plot line, and the script has some decidedly weak points, and I think we can all agree, quite kindly, that the acting....varies. But – blame it on dizziness and fatigue, if you like, it was also surprisingly fun on a pure popcorn level.Nonetheless, I'd been called on to snark. So, as a reader service, the first episode:
We OPEN on a hooded man RUNNING and RUNNING through MULTIPLE CAMERA FILTERS. It's just like ROBIN HOOD except with HEAVIER BREATHING. Hooded man SHOOTS a FLAMING arrow at a PILE OF STICKS to summon some STUNNED Chinese fishers who are PROPERLY AWED to see that a WHITE MAN survived Purgatory Island.
Voiceover: I've been here for five years. It kinda sucked. Mostly because the CAMERA FILTERS kept EVERYTHING GREY. I've thought only of one thing: surviving! Surviving! And returning home. Clearly not COUNTING to ONE. And maybe SHAVING since it's going to take the MAKEUP PEOPLE a LOT OF TIME to keep putting this thing on my CHIN. I am OLIVER QUEEN and I am OUT FOR JUSTICE. Also, coffee.
TITLE CREDITS
Newscaster: Hi! I'm going to ask you to overlook the horrifically faked look of this faked newscast and instead focus on the important stuff: Oliver Queen is alive and is very very rich. Also, he was kinda a jerk before the whole exile on the island thing and beat up on camerapeople. If you think that's jerky. We do, but, you know, we're the press.
Doctor: Oliver's all bruised and broken and not exactly talkative, but I think I can promise you are going to love his chiseled arms.
Moira: Oliver, since your beard has now been REPLACED with manly stubble, I shall hug you and call you my beautiful boy.
Oliver: Although I should be thrilled to see my mother after five years on the island, my CLOSEUP will show that I feel UNCERTAIN about this. Quick, before either of us has to start ACTUALLY ACTING! Off to our great stone mansion!
Me: Oooh. Want house.
Walter: Hi, I'm Walter, Walter Steele, your father's old friend. I'm not suspicious, really, whatever the soundtrack and my actions MIGHT BE IMPLYING.
Oliver: It's unclear whether or not I remember you. Or my mother. But I DEFINITELY remember the housekeeper to the point where she and l will clasp hands for SOMEWHAT LONGER than is strictly necessary! Let's not delve too deeply into what this means. Oh, hi sis, the only person other than the housekeeper I don't find at all suspicious!
Laurel: Hi, I'm Laurel, currently pretending to be just an innocent lawyer in Legal Aid. Really. Ignore any indications otherwise, oh comics fans. Moving on. I am preparing a class action lawsuit that none of my coworkers think I can win! And – crap – I've just learned that my sister died on the Queen's Gambit, the same ship that sank leaving Oliver Queen shipwrecked on that island for five years. This could be awkward. Also, you'd think someone would have CALLED ME about this rather than letting me hear it on TV surrounded by coworkers.
Oliver: Let me lighten the tension by walking around with only a towel. Well, lighten the audience tension, at least. Wow. I'm both heavily scarred AND well cut!
FLASHBACK to the QUEEN'S GAMBIT before it got SHIPWRECKED. It is RAINING in a nice HOLLYWOOD rain kinda way.
Dude: This storm's been UPGRADED to a CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE. Captain THINKS we should turn back!
Me: YOU THINK?
Dude: Well, to be fair, I'm kinda doubting the whole hurricane thing, since the boat is HARDLY MOVING, much less ROCKING the way it SHOULD BE in a hurricane.
Sarah, choosing this moment to SHOW US HER LEGS: And on a considerably more important topic, WHERE'S THE BOTTLE OPENER?
Oliver's Dad: ...I'm thinking that this whole thing between you and Sarah isn't going to go well.
Flashback ENDS as Oliver's friend TOMMY arrives, taking Oliver into a QUICK HUG.
Moira: Ok, time for awkward dinner conversation, where we will all TRY to pretend this is NORMAL and that I am not SLEEPING with your father's former business partner.
Walter: I didn't realize you spoke Russian!
Oliver: I didn't realize you wanted to sleep with my mother!
Tommy and Thea: Well, this is awkward.
ANOTHER FLASHBACK takes us to BACK to the ship which has still NOT LEFT the hurricane.
Sarah: I think the hurricane's close! But not so close that I can't slip in a bit of exposition that you are cheating on your sister with me!
Oliver: Oh, it's not –
Ship is suddenly CAUGHT IN A BIG WAVE, which is KINDA WHAT HAPPENS when you take a SMALL BOAT into a CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE. I am FORCED TO PAUSE THE SHOW and GO GET SOME BOOZE. When I RETURN everything is TIPPED OVER. Sarah SLIDES out of the ship and PRESUMABLY DROWNS although since this series is BASED ON A COMIC BOOK and WE DON'T SEE HER BODY I am already GUESSING SHE SURVIVES. Men PULL OLIVER into a SMALL BOAT which is going to be EVEN LESS SAFE in a hurricane if THIS IS REMOTELY POSSIBLE. Original boat SINKS SINKS SINKS to the bottom of the sea which is PRECISELY WHY boats of that size usually go AROUND HURRICANES not THROUGH THEM.
Oliver: Guess it's time for me to OPEN this MYSTERIOUS BOX. Then, I shall go visit my sister, and call her "Speedy," which is not going to be any type of foreshadowing or anything.
Tommy: You sister got hot. NOT THAT I NOTICED. I add, unconvincingly. Er! Instead, let me drive you around, a process that will also allow me to slip in more exposition! Like! The city is sinking! Laurel hates you! It's PAST TIME FOR A PARTY!
Oliver: Unfortunately, since Laurel is my DESIGNATED LOVE INTEREST, I kinda HAVE TO MEET HER. Best done with a surprise visit to her workplace!
Laurel: Dude, you cheated on me with my sister and then let her drown.
Oliver: ...I'm sorry?
Before anyone can wallow TOO MUCH in the ROMANTIC ANGST, Oliver and Tommy are ATTACKED BY MASKED MEN. Before anyone can GET INTO the violence, it is interrupted by ANOTHER FLASHBACK.
Oliver's dad: Since we're all about to die, first, here, have some water! Second, now seems like an excellent time to tell you that as a human being, I kinda suck.
Masked men: Time for some torture!
Oliver: Or, time for some superheroing! Let's do that instead!
Superhero stuff ENSUES, involving lots of CHASING AROUND and JUMPING and SWINGING ON CHAINS, ending with Oliver KILLING someone, supposedly in the NAME OF SECRECY but also possibly because OLIVER HASN'T HAD MUCH COFFEE YET although I MAY BE PROJECTING. This is followed by an AWKWARD MEETING with a POLICE DETECTIVE who is understandably SKEPTICAL of Oliver's claims that the masked men were TAKEN OUT by a GUY IN A GREEN HOOD, and a somewhat MORE touching moment between Oliver and the HOUSEKEEPER, Raisa, who is shaping up to be the ONLY DECENT person on the show.
Moira: Well, now that that's over, Oliver, what with the masked men and you vanishing for five years, I have to give you a bodyguard/chauffeur.
Diggles: Hi! I'm your friendly ex-military bodyguard! Let me show you my competence by immediately LOSING YOU. From a MOVING CAR.
Oliver IGNORES this rather ALARMING security breach, choosing instead to construct the
Oliver: And now that I've established my THREATENING side, time to establish my covering PLAYBOY image with a PARTY!
Tommy: And I shall take advantage of this by providing the one really good joke of the show!
Oliver: Damn it, is that my sister buying drugs?
Thea: Yes, but, in my defense, the last five years? Have sucked.
Laurel: Just ignore me, because, really, there is no reason for my presence here that will not seem brutally contrived. But, let's have a conversation about my sister's death again.
Oliver's phone: BEEP!
Laurel: What was that?
Oliver: A reminder that I need to tell you that I'm still, for all intents and purposes, a scumbag. Go have fun.
Laurel: And you said you hadn't changed. I'm just not sure how to deal with this honesty!
Oliver DEALS with it by ENTERING AN ACTION SEQUENCE which includes a LOT OF SHOOTING ARROWS AT PEOPLE and SWINGING DOWN WIRES to a ROOF.
Detective: Ok, that does it. I am SO SHUTTING DOWN this party. I mean, forget the drugs. We're now talking ATTACKS on PERFECTLY MEAN BILLIONAIRES here. Oliver, you jerk, did you even TRY to save my daughter on that boat or did you just let her drown?
Oliver: I can only answer this emotional moment with PARTY ON!
Tommy: Er, do you find it a MILDLY strange coincidence that you just HAPPENED to insist on having your party RIGHT next door to where the Green Arrow dude ATTACKED a PERFECTLY MEAN BILLIONAIRE, the same Green Arrow that earlier SAVED US? And I'm not just asking because by another mildly strange coincidence I HAPPEN to have the SAME NAME as one of the BAD GUYS in your COMIC BOOK.
Oliver: No.
Tommy: Party on then!
Perfectly Mean Billionaire: Oh, come on. $40 million does NOT JUST DISAPPEAR! How did this happen?
Camera SHOWS us an ARROW TIP with some sort of BLINKING computer chip EMBEDDED in his wall.
Audience: Quite possibly because you PAY your cleaning staff so LITTLE, they don't BOTHER to remove BLINKING ARROWS from your walls?
[Seriously, I'm all for big plot holes in superhero things, because, well, it's the genre, but were you honestly going to tell me that given the police invasion, NO ONE would have noticed the blinking computer arrow thingy in the wall? I mean, IT'S BLINKING.]
Another FLASHBACK to the LIFEBOAT from hell, which is now NEARLY OUT OF WATER even though REMEMBER they were IN A RATHER WET HURRICANE WITH RAIN and IT'S STILL CLOUDY. Daddy Queen SHOOTS the other surviving man and HIMSELF which KINDA EXPLAINS Oliver's CURRENT MOODINESS.
Show: Let's hurriedly move on from that by shoving in some late bits of exposition! First of all, several people are telling their lawyers about money that has unexpectedly arrived in their bank accounts, suggesting that the city has an Angel! Or, if we are going by appearances and a joke earlier in the script, a Robin Hood! Second, Laurel and Tommy have occasionally been sleeping together! Third, Oliver's mother kidnapped him!
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I didn't bother to snark the later episodes, and I'm not entirely caught up yet, but some less snarky/spoilery comments:
1. The death count on this show is pretty high, and Green Arrow seems, I dunno, kinda blasé about the people who die along the way? I'm kinda surprised he isn't just knocking them out with neurotoxins or something (look, this is not exactly a realistic show as it is, so let's just handwave my neurotoxin thingy.)
2. I can already sense that the island backstory is going to keep bugging me. Originally, I was just bugged by the whole "Hey, we're in a category two hurricane, and yet, the ship's barely rocking," followed by ENORMOUS WAVE OF TERROR, and then, I was bugged by the ridiculous "The boat was sabotaged!" when HELLO THE NOT VERY LARGE BOAT WAS IN A HURRICANE AND GOT KNOCKED OVER BY A SUPERWAVE what sabotage did you NEED exactly?" Anyway. Now, I'm bugged by the entire presence of SECRET PEOPLE on a FREAKY ISLAND. I'm getting reminded of Lost and not in a good way. I think it was cooler back in the pilot when it was just Arrow running around the island all alone and constantly saying I WAS ALONE I WAS ALONE I WAS ALONE I DID NOT HAVE FREAKY PEOPLE HANGING ME UP IN NETS!
So. Yeah. So far the flashbacks have been pretty irritating. As was the finding of the boat. Geesh.
3. I kinda prefer Green Arrow with the geeky girl in IT. Yes, I know that isn't the Official Comic Story and that Oliver and Laurel still have Feelings and have had some Nice Moments. Having said that, it's the 21st century and we're all grown up now. Maybe Oliver can have a nice relationship with two girls at once? Although since Laurel already assured us that she is looking for a one girl guy, I guess not. On the other hand, this is the CW! So, let's not lose all hope here.
4. I do like the twist that so far (episode 5) the stepfather initially presented as slightly questionable in the pilot is turning out to be a decent, straightforward guy, even if he's the CFO.
5. I covet the house, because it is a really cool house. I hope they end up shooting arrows from it!