Warning: full spoilers for the episode follow.
Only time to fire off a quick review today, with SDCC madness already hitting like a Donovan wielded bat, but wanted to touch base on the third episode of this series, which maintained a strong forward momentum in some respects and raised a few concerns in others. Let's start with a couple of the less-than-ideal aspects of the episode. First, things are beginning to feel a little too neatly tied together, meaning the coincidences are becoming more challenging to buy into as the show progresses.
The idea that Ray goes to shush his loud neighbor, Re-Kon, only to be a legendary figure to the man who - as it happens - has a job for him felt like a little too much. It's clear that the fix-of-the-week was placed in such a close proximity to his home so that one of his children - this time his daughter - would once again become personally involved with a client. Star-in-the-making Marvin Gaye Washington, the boy Re-Kon is determined to adopt, begins a highly-sexual flirtation with Bridget highlighting, once again, that as much as Ray wants to protect his family, and their innocence, the world is too big a place for even him to control. More than that, his own life choices may be a danger to them. Of course, Ray was so busy trying to protect Marvin from Re-Kon, and scolding Abby with his absence, that he failed to be there when Bridget was asking after him - enter boy willing to, er, pay attention.
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