Today’s
(late) update is brought to you by Word 2013, which decided to crash after I
finished writing this review. To make
things even more delightful, it then decided to point and laugh at me while
chortling, “AutoRecovery? What AutoRecovery?!” I don’t know about you, but for me, nothing
inspires quite as much petulance as uncooperative technology, so I had to sit
and grumble for a while before rewriting this entry. (In other words, if there seems to be an
undercurrent of seething bitterness threaded through this post, you know why.)
At any
rate, here we are again! Mr. Vladimir
makes another appearance in episode 2, although this one is very brief. He’s only in a couple of scenes, and he’s not
used liberally in either. I will say,
though, that PC’s nonverbal acting skills were well on their way back when he
made this. He has some nice reactions
here.
Plot-wise,
this episode focuses on the build-up to the act Verloc has been tasked with
performing. He’s receiving a lot of
conflicting pressures from different directions. In addition, to masquerading as an anarchist
and operating on behalf of the embassy, he’s also a police informant. And as if that wasn’t enough, his wife knows
virtually nothing about any of these roles.
He has several divergent identities layered one on top of the other, and
he’s at a loss for how to get out of his situation intact.
I
failed to mention it earlier, but in the film version of The Secret Agent, the one I talked about yesterday, Mr. Vladimir is
played by none other than Eddie Izzard (I’m so glad he’s joined the Bryan
Fuller fold of late; he was great on Hannibal
last season.)
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