I haven’t read the comic, but I’d be surprised if the show never revisited Jesse’s back story.
One thing I’m really curious about: will the show continue to have that “retro” production design? Though it’s clearly set in the present day (given some sightings of smart phones), it’s also chock-a-block with 1980s and earlier cars, costuming, set decoration, and props. Obviously this isn’t random–the showrunners have made a concerted effort to exclude 2016 stuff, other than those few cell phones.
I was struck in the last episode (I think) by what Donny and Betsy were shown reading in bed–the 1983 book “Gorillas in the Mist” and what looked like a Good Housekeeping (I think) magazine from the same era. And that’s characteristic of the show as a whole.
It’s not that this doesn’t make sense: it’s perfectly plausible that residents of so small and poor a town would be making do with the old cars and appliances and decorating schemes that they’ve been living with for many years, instead of upgrading to new stuff.
But surely our Trio, now that they’ll be out on the road, will be visiting some places other than other small and poor towns. So will we be seeing 2016-2017 cars and props? Or will they, somehow, never see anything made after 1985 (or so)?
…Not a burning question; just something I’m wondering about.
Emily was using the mayor as a pseudo partner, “we’ve run out of milk”, “watch the kids”, with occasional sex when she needed to scratch an itch.
Before he went to see the stand off at the church, he found his backbone, and told her that he was moving in.
Her face said volumes.
He had to die.
He was useful to her one last time.
I think you’ve got that backwards. The Mayor was trying to wiggle his way into Emily’s pants by being a “nice guy” - watching the kids, picking up milk, etc. She outright told him in one episode that she was never going to sleep with him, but he kept it up, kinda sorta implying that she might find herself in trouble with the city if she turned down his advances. As Jesse started treating her more badly, she started giving up on trying to fight him, and then realized that feeding him to Cassidy would give her a way out of dealing with him.
The specific wording I recall is “You know I’m never gonna be with you, right?” In my awareness, “be with you” in that context means “have sex with you”.
I’d have to rewatch the episode, but here’s how Wikipedia summarizes that scene;
I definitely didn’t get a “consensual sexual relationship” vibe from it so much as a “you can sleep on the couch” vibe, and I assumed her taking off her pants was less an invitation to sex than it was her getting undressed for bed and not giving a damn about propriety. (It was either that same episode or the previous one in which Jesse comes to see her, her son tells him “she’s pooping”, and she then flushes and leaves the bathroom without washing her hands.)
That scene clearly implied she was having sex with him that night. What possible reason would there be for him to sleep on her couch? He has his own place.
I have to give the showmakers props for the musical segue between the end of the church service and the chaos that ensued. Emily, the organist, is about to play the final piece that signals the service is over, and it winds up being the opening organ chords to ? and the Mysterians96 Tears.
Earlier in the episode, they played “Go Down Gamblin’” by Blood Sweat & Tears. My older brother had that album and I used to love listening to it when I was a kid. That tune still rocks.
See, for me that was one of the things that marked him as “clueless moron who doesn’t know how to win a woman over”. You don’t just go and wash someone’s sneakers. Those things take forever to dry out! They’re gonna be walking around all squishy-footed the next day.
Well I binged this over the past few days. I read the comic oh ten years or so ago and had forgotten everything. Let’s just say I like the show.
But one thing, what’s with all the Brits? I know it isn’t unusual to have one or two playing Americans these days, but the majority the main cast is British. Weirdly so.
Dominic Cooper as Jesse is from London.
Joe Gilgun as Cassidy is from Lancashire.
Lucy Griffiths as Emily is from Brighton
Graham McTavish as the Saint of Killers is from Glasgow (but according to Wiki “lived in Canada, England and Scotland before settling in New Zealand”)
These ones have British accents in the show, but still …
Tom Brooke as Fiore is from London
Anatol Yusef as Deblanc is from London
Bonus marks:
Ruth Negga was born in Ethiopia, raised in Ireland and has spent the last decade or so in the UK.
By the way, if anyone likes Cassidy then they really should check out Misfits. He appears in (I think) series three and plays pretty much the same character but from England, minus the vampire bit but with added superpowers.
As far as Fiore and Deblanc, I assumed their accents, along with their cowboy hats and general awkwardness, were meant to show how out-of-place they are on Earth. They don’t seem to have much experience dealing with humans and are trying to fit in in a way that just subtly comes off as wrong, like a less OTT version of the Coneheads. Had they pursued Genesis into Mexico, they’d probably have had American accents and been wearing ponchos and sombreros.
Cassidy is Irish in the comics, so his accent is just being faithful to the adaptation. The Saint of Killers’ ethnic origins aren’t described in the comics so far as I know, so I suppose we could assume he’s of Scots-Irish stock since a lot of them settled in the South in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Can’t speak to the logic behind the other casting choices, but they all fit the characters well, and it’s probably easier for a British actor looking for work stateside to fake a Texan accent than to fake a more generically American one.
