I loved that she was drinking champagne. I love Peter and Elizabeth as a couple. One of my favorite moments on the show was the ep where he had to chase a woman, and he was fumbling through telling her about it and she just patted his hand and said "oh honey, you have no game, I'm not worried"

Their relationship is so fun to watch. Happy couples don't have to be boring!

So I finally watched the first two episodes of Copper last night, with some judicious fast-forwarding. The ending was rather unexpected! That is not how I expected that issue to play out.

I'm sufficiently intrigued to watch some more, but I would really like to see some women who are not whores or ladies. It's all a bit too explicit a statement of the madonna/whore dichotomy. Even with (especially with!) the child exploitation angle.

And I don't know about you all, but I would fully expect Annie to be unable to relate to Corcoran as a father figure. She's spent the last couple of years dealing with all adult men as potential rapists/predators, and I should think she's going to have a hard time unlearning those protective behaviors. So having Corcoran basically adopt her is just a bit skeevy, even if his intentions are entirely altruistic.

Anyway. I also wouldn't mind a bit less sepia in the cinematography: they did have bright colors back then, you know!

some women who are not whores or ladies

Does the doctor's wife not appear in the first episode?

I know people whitefont in case other people aren't up to date, but I find I can't reliably tell what whitefont is for things that already happened (and are okay to read) versus what is actually a spoiler, and I'm more likely to get spoilt, not less, since whitefonted spoilers are tolerated.

Can we agree that if you come into the thread you're accepting that blackfont is up to what's currently airing? That way past and future are neatly separated.

Folks are gonna get Copper plot details in here anyway.

Does the doctor's wife not appear in the first episode?

You're right, she does. But she's the only woman in an ordinary situation that we see.

I'd forgotten the spoiler rules, actually.

2nd was better than the first. Am I wrong that Kyle Schmid delivered an extremely wooden performance as Morehouse? Especially at the end when he was telling Cororan how careful they had to be - I forget the word not agile but something on those lines. But his delivery was like he was reading it off the teleprompter and had never seen it before.

Also the stokes with which some of the characters are drawn seem a bit broad. The police have shades of grey and so does Morehouse if he can be played properly. But Elizabeth so far seems to be a 21st century woman stranded in the 19th century, perhaps by The Doctor. Freeman seems pretty much a saint. Freeman's wife may or may not be promising. She is traumatized, but has a gun, skill at using it and determination. That could be a very narrow character indeed, or she could be great if they move beyond trauma victim fighting back.

The end took me by surprise. And was a good choice. For this reason I'll try a third episode.But I also don't really trust the showrunners at this point not to screw it up.

Am I wrong that Kyle Schmid delivered an extremely wooden performance as Morehouse?

He seemed fine to me.

Randomly, I wonder how Anne Dudek feels about being in all the ads for Covert Affairs when she got written out of the show.

She was fired? She didn't leave?

She just had a baby in March. Maybe the pregnancy interfered with the filming schedule? The show definitely left the door open for her to come back.