I have
to tell you – having a previously-unknown identical twin with whom you may or
may not share a psychic link just isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Poor Carol is put through the ringer, in
terms of her family, her emotional state, and her own personal well-being. In a way, I suppose it’s understandable that
the two sisters have problems. When
you’re brought face-to-face with someone who has the same DNA as you, it’s
probably easy to starting asking why she has things that you don’t have. It’s clear that Helen covets Carol’s life,
how put-together she is and how idyllic her family seems.
Yet, at
the same time, Carol feels threatened by Helen’s easy manner. It kills her to see Helen joking and having
fun with Gordon when it seems that she (Carol) always has to work so hard with
him. She probably wishes that she didn’t
always have to play the bad guy and tell her son what he is and isn’t allowed
to do. Carol is quieter, politer, and
more tightly wound – she just can’t loosen up the way that Helen can (although,
considering some of the mischief Helen gets up to, that’s probably a good
thing!)
And
what of Gordon, you ask? He’s not quite
as featured here as he is in part 1, but there’s still some goodness to be
had. The whole business with Helen is
doing his head in, and he doesn’t know what to think. He alternates clumsily between callousness
and caring, scolding Carol for undo accusations in one scene and backing her
suspicions in another. Essentially, all
he knows is that, despite everything, he really does love his wife, and he’s
trying to accommodate her sister’s presence in their lives, but he’s not ready
to face the fact that maybe he can’t do both together.
On a
side note, it’s interesting to watch the goings-on of the parapsychology
folks. In the main cast, you have one
doctor who’s a little obsessed with the idea of ESP and desperate to prove it,
another who’s steadfastly skeptical in the face of all evidence, and one who at
least endeavors to keep an open mind.
It’s a good dynamic.
And
now, as we finish Sea of Souls:
Accent Watch
Scottish.
Recommend?
In
General
– Maybe. Interesting premise, some good
acting, and it’s a nice twist on a lot of the more typical procedurals out
there. But warned, though, of some hokey
over-dramatics.
PC-wise – I might. PC more than rises to the challenge of
playing an ordinary man dealing with some pretty out-of-the-ordinary
circumstances.
Warnings
Add
some scary situations and an overall darkness running through the piece.
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