THAT ENDING.
We have two cliff hangers holding us over hiatus. (Future streaming viewers can luckily stream on through.)
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This new Walker series has always been character based, rather than procedural like the original WTR.
So it's with joy we can now dig in to episodes like Just Desserts where the ensemble all have their moments to interact without a case, yet not forgetting ties to the season itself.
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I'm glad that both of Cordell's children are finally having to face the music for their past betrayals of trust.
The fact that Stella (Violet Brinson) pouts and leaves, rather than realizing she's still deserving blame for the first two seasons shows she's not yet "got" it.
(Will she ever admit to that hitching post scheme that caused her father to think he was a danger to them/unwanted at his most vulnerable time?)
And Auggie (Kale Culley)
My sweet, sweet boy's gone so far off the rails that this is a welcome note to him to hand the reins back to his father.
The kid needs to be given structure, since he's failed to have absorbed it as everyone thought.
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Cordell (Jared Padalecki), too, however.
We see his growth as he steps up when he realizes his error. Tries to mend fences, even when he doesn't know he's done anything wrong.
And Abeline (Molly Hagan) FINALLY doing what Auggie, Stella (or she) could have done weeks ago.
Keep talking and make him listen.
The man's not unreasonable. He just doesn't realize he's wrong because he lacks a very key fact here. (Not just the suspicion of Auggie being off track that Bonham suggests, but the pure essential fact of what happened that night.)
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The show was not all angst, however.
Padalecki, Keegan Allen, and Mitch Pileggi show once again how comedy is best done.
The turkey hunt and even the kitchen scenes were hysterical.
Add in Ashley Reyes and. Jake Abel as awkward first daters. (Though, how well do we know the Mayor's assistant? Is he a good guy or just handsome?)
Coby Bell got some of the best lines at the table, too, in a scene that was about as Awkward Thanksgiving Dinner as it comes.
(Key foreshadowing, however: not all is resting easy in the Captain's mind.)
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Overall kudos?
In my opinion, highest praise this episode went to Molly Hagan, whose Abeline was woven throughout all the other moving parts.
She did this seamlessly, impressively--moving from angst to anger to the calm at the center of the story.
Every scene, every scene partner.
Hagan nailed it.
---
All in all, this episode was well written, well acted, smoothly directed and edited too.
It made viewers laugh and cry, by turns.
It left us desperate to know what happens next.
(Again, lucky future streamers, because now I anxiously wait.)
I hope this show gets renewed for several seasons.
It really has done everything expected and then some. It feels like coming home.
We have two cliff hangers holding us over hiatus. (Future streaming viewers can luckily stream on through.)
---
This new Walker series has always been character based, rather than procedural like the original WTR.
So it's with joy we can now dig in to episodes like Just Desserts where the ensemble all have their moments to interact without a case, yet not forgetting ties to the season itself.
---
I'm glad that both of Cordell's children are finally having to face the music for their past betrayals of trust.
The fact that Stella (Violet Brinson) pouts and leaves, rather than realizing she's still deserving blame for the first two seasons shows she's not yet "got" it.
(Will she ever admit to that hitching post scheme that caused her father to think he was a danger to them/unwanted at his most vulnerable time?)
And Auggie (Kale Culley)
My sweet, sweet boy's gone so far off the rails that this is a welcome note to him to hand the reins back to his father.
The kid needs to be given structure, since he's failed to have absorbed it as everyone thought.
---
Cordell (Jared Padalecki), too, however.
We see his growth as he steps up when he realizes his error. Tries to mend fences, even when he doesn't know he's done anything wrong.
And Abeline (Molly Hagan) FINALLY doing what Auggie, Stella (or she) could have done weeks ago.
Keep talking and make him listen.
The man's not unreasonable. He just doesn't realize he's wrong because he lacks a very key fact here. (Not just the suspicion of Auggie being off track that Bonham suggests, but the pure essential fact of what happened that night.)
---
The show was not all angst, however.
Padalecki, Keegan Allen, and Mitch Pileggi show once again how comedy is best done.
The turkey hunt and even the kitchen scenes were hysterical.
Add in Ashley Reyes and. Jake Abel as awkward first daters. (Though, how well do we know the Mayor's assistant? Is he a good guy or just handsome?)
Coby Bell got some of the best lines at the table, too, in a scene that was about as Awkward Thanksgiving Dinner as it comes.
(Key foreshadowing, however: not all is resting easy in the Captain's mind.)
---
Overall kudos?
In my opinion, highest praise this episode went to Molly Hagan, whose Abeline was woven throughout all the other moving parts.
She did this seamlessly, impressively--moving from angst to anger to the calm at the center of the story.
Every scene, every scene partner.
Hagan nailed it.
---
All in all, this episode was well written, well acted, smoothly directed and edited too.
It made viewers laugh and cry, by turns.
It left us desperate to know what happens next.
(Again, lucky future streamers, because now I anxiously wait.)
I hope this show gets renewed for several seasons.
It really has done everything expected and then some. It feels like coming home.
