This episode was basically fine. The only real problem with it is the same as with Replay - they just don't trust the audience at all. There's a simple message and they make sure to spell it out and repeat it just in case you didn't get it the first time.
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| Literally everyone in this episode looked vaguely familiar to me but I don't recognise any of their names. |
Dylan invites Annie, the protagonist, to watch a meteor shower with him and some of the meteors land nearby. They go to check it out and he finds one and brings it home. He then becomes extremely pushy and she leaves - and sees him yelling and smashing stuff in his house as she goes.
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| He jokes about it being hazardous, which is ironic - like rain on your wedding day. |
Over the next day Annie notices most of the men in town becoming angry, violent and irrational as they come into contact with the meteorites. She and her sister, Martha, leave a pub as a fight breaks out and a guy on a motorbike follows them home, where Martha's husband, Mike, beats him to death. Mike then attacks Annie, so she and Martha run away.
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| This guy looks horrific, even without the blood all over him. |
They run through the streets where a bunch of men are rioting and fighting and burning things and come across their dad, who says he's not affected and is trying to come up with some explanation why, but before they can decide whether to trust him or not he gets attacked by some other men and they have to run away some more.
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| You can tell things are bad because there's a garbage bin on fire. |
They end up at the boat where their brother, Cole, and his boyfriend, Steve, are. Steve is meteorite-affected but Cole isn't. Dylan shows up somehow and attacks them but they're rescued and evacuated by an army helicopter. The three siblings get tested and cleared, but Cole reveals that he's had a meteorite the whole time - it wasn't an involuntary reaction, you can just choose to not be an arsehole.
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| He seemed to be aware of how it was affecting people though and still chose to carry it around. |
And that's the message. It is #notallmen, it's just arseholes. Don't be an arsehole. And that's fine I guess, it just seems like the sort of moralising you see in shows aimed at children. Adults shouldn't need it spelled out so blatantly. And I know that there are people who watched this episode and didn't get the message, but there is literally no reaching those people. Dumbing it down doesn't help. It just makes the show less good for everyone else.
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| This guy never touched a meteorite and he's an arsehole anyway. Do you get it now? |
Sadly, this was probably the best episode so far, but that just goes to show how bad the previous episodes have been. I'm sure enough people will say this was a good episode on the basis that it triggers the chuds or whatever, but it really wasn't. It was barely mediocre.
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| They said early on that the meteorites smelled really bad, so people putting them in drinks seemed implausbie. |
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