"Come on, man- this is my wanking hand!"
So this is it, almost: the penultimate episode. After Thursday next week (the '20s!) I'll have that day of the week back. It will no longer have been hijacked by this addictive little web series that has had me so thoroughly hooked.
These last two episodes are back to the original plot thread with the Baroness and Falsworth Manor, and this episode is pretty much here to set up the finale. There's the usual wit, the usual excellence in incidental music from Tasha Fights Tigers- using a guitar sound from the general lineage of post-punk (with a bit of QOTSA in there? Perhaps the Wildhearts? The Libertines?) , the usual fight scene peppered with much amusing dialogue, as all fights scenes should be. But intriguing things are being set up, too- Joe and Romany are skint, having quit their jobs yet still trying to stop the Baroness. Early on they get approached by a chastened Gavin, who has also quit MI5 after the horrors of last week. He is hoping they'll join his "Invaders Initiative", an obvious reference both to the WWII-set Roy Thomas title from the '70s and to the post-credits sequence of Iron Man. Set-up for a second season? I hope so. Marvel, kindly make this series official and throw lots of money at Mark Garvey and co for another one. Understood? Good.
We conclude, after a showdown between Joe and Grausum in which our Joey wins against the odds by fighting dirty, with our heroic couple ensconced, alone, in Fasworth Manor, awaiting either glory or certain death. I'll be there next week, when the Chrimbo Limbo will be over and days of the week will exist again.
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