I don't think accusing a ten-year-old of murder to her face is awesome. I think it's...psychotic.
Oh, I think in that scene Rebecca was hip-deep in in reality about the little girl and what she had done, so not psychotic at all. The only thing that was going to throw that child off-kilter was realizing she didn't have everyone fooled, and Rebecca knew that. A ten-year old who has gutted a little boy like a fish and then waited around to watch his mother find him? Yeah, no sympathy for some scare tactics and yelling there. And part of what I'm supposed to buy, I think, about Rebecca is that she gets evilbad in a way that most other humans just don't - she knew the girl had done it.
What she didn't plan for - the jump out of the tree house - that's her not seeing enough steps ahead yet. Same with cluing the mother in about her actual suspicions in the kitchen. Though, whereas I kind of knew the girl was going to jump, I had no clue about what the mother was going to do. That was tricksy twisty, which I enjoyed. (ETA: or maybe not so surprising, had I remembered the thing about consequences and the kitchen scene.)
Enjoyed last night's ep, for the most part.(Mel was indeed a good part of that)However....did anyone else find that end scene a bit anvilly?(At least the part with Paul looking at the sonogram)
In that it was some sort of heavy foreshadowing of what his child may be? Not really.
I think the conversation (which is one I would have if I were a fictional FBI agent after working a case like that), naturally led Paul to think about his own child, and hope against hope that he turns out okay, and that he's able to do his job as a father. Nothing more.
Plus, he'd had Rebecca's words about how you can't really protect children from the world in his head all ep, so obviously he's afraid he won't be able to pull off the parenting thing.
I like Paul. I may not always agree with his view, but I respect it.
I think the conversation (which is one I would have if I were a fictional FBI agent after working a case like that), naturally led Paul to think about his own child, and hope against hope that he turns out okay, and that he's able to do his job as a father. Nothing more.
Not Sheryl, but I read her anvil comment as being about that.
Is it just me, or physically, does McCurdy sort of resemble Julie Dawn Cole as a child (the actor who played Veruca Salt in the Gene Wilder version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)?
NOT just you. She looked familiar but I knew I'd never seen her before, and you just put your finger on why.
I loved that when Ellen took Madison, I was worried about Ellen. I was actually worried that she'd kill Madison and go to jail forever and ever, but she was the one I was worried about.
I had forgotten all about Paul's impending fatherhood by the end, so I guess I needed the anvil.
I figured Madison was going to turn it around somehow and gut her. I didn't see the mom getting into it.
I liked that we got to see a little more of Carter as well, from the "It's technology" bit to the conversation with Mel about decaf that I didn't even really understand or hear what they were talking about, but it was amusing.
I can't get over how beautiful Rachel Nichols is. Stunningly beautiful. Hauntingly beautiful.
She also gives good raised eyebrow look.
