Homebase: Graceland

[alorarose]

Welcome to Graceland! Please note that there are no guns allowed on the main level and no civvies allowed upstairs! Also, mind the chore wheel!

Airing Wednesday nights at 10pm EDT



Season 1 Thread.

Season 2 air dates
2x01: The Line - 11/Jun/14
2x02: Connects - 18/Jun/14
2x03: Tinker Bell - 25/Jun/14
2x04: Magic Number - 09/Jul/14
2x05: H-a-Double-P-Y - 16/Jul/14
2x06: The Unlucky One - 23/Jul/14
2x07: Los Malos - 30/Jul/14
2x08: The Ends - 06/Aug/14
2x09: Gratis - 13/Aug/14
2x10: The Head of the Pig - 20/Aug/14
2x11: - 27/Aug/14
2x12: TBA
2x13: Echoes - TBA

Links
Graceland @ USA
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Comments

Ep 1x12

[rheasilvia]

Spoilers up to 1x12 - highlight to read!

Just watched the S1 finale, and I have to say I am not very happy about the Briggs "resolution". This is mostly because I have the distinct impression that I (the viewer) am meant to sympathize with and admire Briggs on some level - even that the ending of having him cleared of all suspicion (except Mike's) is meant to feel like a happy ending on most levels. After all, he was doing it for revenge for his fridged girlfriend, right? He may have directly caused the entire goddamn disaster in the first place by being an arrogant idiot, getting caught and giving up his fellow agent under torture... he may have murdered and dealt drugs and caused numerous deaths directly and indirectly... he may have endangered his new team repeatedly and knowingly accepted that they might all die because he was *again* acting stupidly and arrogantly, thinking he knew better in the exact same way he did in the very beginning... yeah sure, but oh whatever, he's such a cool guy and it was all because he was so tortured!

Wow, that so does not work for me. So very not. I really cannot deal with Briggs being depicted as a cool guy the audience should sympathize with.

If Briggs is intended to be seen as a bad guy, with the next season actually about tracking him down after all (which the discovery of the tape might hint at very slightly), then I would be fine with that. But unfortunately the way the narrative swings on the Briggs issue, it seems to me the viewer is meant to hope he *isn't*caught, and that this new threat to him passes as all the others did.

Re: Ep 1x12

[alorarose]

I don't know if you've started season 2 yet, but I like that they haven't completely dropped the things from season 1.

Don't want to spoil if you haven't started yet.

Re: Ep 1x12

[rheasilvia]

I've watched the first two eps, but then stopped because it seemed to me that things were headed towards "isn't Briggs really cool, dear viewers? everyone will eventually find out what he did and be a little miffed, but they'll soon forgive him because he's so cool" territory.

I also liked that the events of S1 are still important plot points, but, yeah. Still not okay with the way the show doesn't seem to want to hold Briggs responsible for the true extent of his crimes and fuck-ups. It seemed to me as though as the viewer, I was even being asked to feel sorry for Briggs because he had manpain over having killed someone's husband, and admire him for trying to help her now.