Average Joe Season 1 Episode 7 Review: Prisoners

Issues simply received an entire lot extra attention-grabbing for Joe!

With Angela in enemy territory, the race was on to free her from Nicolai’s grasp on Common Joe Season 1 Episode 7, however what ought to have been a fairly simple alternate went utterly off the rails when Jennifer threw a curveball nobody noticed coming.

And nobody will ever be the identical.

Joe had about seven seconds to get enthusiastic about discovering the cash earlier than his world crashed.

And it was worse than simply discovering he solely discovered 1/tenth of the cash!

Angela’s kidnapping naturally threw him into scramble mode, and I felt for him in these moments he realized that Angela was lacking. However he was closely misplacing his anger, in all probability because of the sinking feeling of guilt pooling in his abdomen.

Not each dangerous factor that occurred may be positioned at Joe’s ft. Outdoors of Jennifer, all these individuals are grown, and nobody compelled them to do something towards their will. That is the truth.

However out of everybody, Angela was the one which wished to go. She was the one which wished to maintain her household protected and collectively. And it is not that Joe did not need that, however his pursuits prolonged far past simply defending his household.

Leon will get the crap finish of the stick quite a bit as a result of he is a straightforward goal. He is the one who folds beneath strain and is slightly jittery in each state of affairs. However Leon exhibits up for his folks at first, and I wished to leap off the sofa and applaud him for standing as much as Joe.

Joe does are likely to misplace blame, which is a pure response, actually. Getting defensive and shutting down is not irregular, however for Joe’s first response to be yelling at Leon, the person making an attempt to assist his spouse, whereas he was on a wild goose chase with Russian mobsters making an attempt to hunt them down? Yeah, that does not sit proper with my spirit.

Nothing was Leon’s fault in any respect, and by chance Joe got here round to point out his appreciation for him, however it sucked that, but once more, Leon was the one getting the brunt of everybody’s anger when he was the perfect one amongst them!

The choice to scatter everybody and get out of city was the appropriate one as a result of, at that time, the jig was up with the physique depend rising and their folks getting instantly tortured.

I understood why they wished to go after the cash, however that was earlier than Angela drowned in Nicolai’s yard.

There was one thing fishy about the best way Jennifer parted from Joe. You might inform she was holding again from him, however I naively simply chalked it as much as the actual fact there was a real probability that might be the final time she noticed her father.

However the trick Jennifer had up her sleeve was not one thing I noticed coming.

Now that we all know Jennifer is pregnant with Dimitri’s child, it makes much more sense why it was so exhausting for her to understand Dimitri’s deception. It took a very long time for her to seemingly perceive that Dimitri wasn’t a superb dude, and that absolutely tracks while you think about she’s seeing him from the lens of being her unborn kid’s father.

As we noticed in Common Joe Season 1 Episode 6, Jennifer is dedicated to her mom, so when she waltzed into that diner, I wasn’t in any respect stunned as a result of she’d just about simply promised her mom she was going to face beside her it doesn’t matter what.

However switching locations along with her and willingly going with Nicolai was a transfer that was definitely stunning.

Nicolai is not a person you possibly can belief, however I think about her thought course of was one the place she thought she may purchase herself a while on the very least. As a result of Nicolai would not kill his grandchild, proper?

He killed his personal spouse as a result of she was crying an excessive amount of, but when he has nothing else of Dimitri left.

His little speech about household was laughable, although, as a result of Nicolai’s solely loyalty is to himself. He is received troopers out within the streets pledging their entire lives to him, however he’d simply discard anybody if it meant defending himself or getting what he wished.

Earlier than, I believed Angela ought to enchantment to Arina’s motherly ties, however she by no means received to speak to Arina outdoors of a well-placed center finger.

However you need to assume that being with youngster, Dimitri’s youngster at that, Jennifer will not be getting the identical remedy as her mom. Plus, Arina could also be feeling some sort of approach as a result of Nicolai left her completely at midnight.

Arina is not there of her personal free will, and if she came upon the place her daughter was, I do not assume she would hesitate to flee from Nicolai the primary probability she received.

Outdoors of assist from Arina, I am discovering it exhausting to see how they get to Jennifer. Even when they returned each single factor Teddy stole, they cannot give him again to Dimitri. And like hell is he going to surrender his grandchild.

Whereas Joe and firm had been coping with the fallout from Angela’s kidnapping, Contact was at dwelling actively withdrawing and remembering the worst second of his life.

Talford got here throughout like a by-the-book cop at first, however with every new factor she found on this investigation, she realized that to nab the massive fish, she wouldn’t have the posh of enjoying by the principles.

And it is now formally clear that getting Nicolai is primary on her listing, which works out in Joe and everybody else’s favor, even when they cannot fairly see that but.

Talford can kiss her entire profession goodbye if she activates Joe or any of them proper now as a result of she’s damaged so many guidelines. She and Contact are seemingly in a battle to see who may be absolutely the worst cop, and proper now, Talford could also be edging Contact out. Possibly.

Utilizing Contact’s dependancy to get info was robust to observe, as was watching Contact going by way of each the bodily and psychological features of cleansing with out the assistance of consolation drugs or assist.

His thoughts took him again to Tess’s dying, which we noticed a bit of in the course of the flashback in Common Joe Season 1 Episode 2.

Contact nonetheless carries the guilt from each what occurred and his cowardice in overlaying it up like an albatross on his neck. Medicine could numb the ache, however that ache has by no means subsided and doubtless by no means will.

It is slightly unrealistic to anticipate this to be the factor that will get Contact clear, however his merely refusing to take the tablet felt genuine to that second. And when he wakes up and finds out what he is missed whereas chained to a radiator, utilizing could also be the very last thing on his thoughts.

There’s in all probability no approach they’ll hold mendacity to Talford now, so bringing her in and dealing alongside her and never towards her will be the approach ahead.

They could not belief her, however they need to be capable of belief her hatred for Nicolai. And which will should be sufficient.

Additional, Common Info

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  Have I advised you guys how a lot I like the flashbacks at the start of every hour? As a result of I like them. Right here we noticed maybe the genesis for the Leon and Cathy we met in Common Joe Season 1 Episode 1. Leon is such a superb man.

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  Talking of Leon, staying behind with Joe as an alternative of leaving with Cathy had me scratching my head initially, however it actually was in character for him. Joe is household, and for all Joe’s faults, he would have accomplished the identical factor for him.

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  I do not ever need to know what was in these letters Joe wrote for Leon and Contact as a result of I’ll certainly cry. They’re all a multitude, every with flaws, however they genuinely love each other.

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  The place is the primary place you assume Cathy will seek for the cash? She was born and bred for this second to make use of all her television-watching expertise to drag off the final word scavenger hunt.

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  It crossed my thoughts briefly that Jennifer was mendacity about being pregnant to avoid wasting her mother, however she was undoubtedly on the cusp of telling Joe after they left one another the evening earlier than.

We’re creeping as much as the Common Joe Season 1 finale, and the stakes have by no means been increased!

Soar into the remark part and let me know the place you assume issues are headed this season. And what your favourite components from this installment had been!

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