Is Lee burned out from ten years in the field? That's the question facing Amanda after Lee blows several cases, drinks to excess and doesn't push his tie all the way up.
At one point, busybody Amanda and Lee show a phenomenal mental connection. But I won't spoil that. It's a great moment and a genuine turning point in the series.
The end is very funny with its "Apocalypse Now" overtones of a truck roaring down on the bad guys playing Wagner very loud. It was a little ahead of its time. These days people do play their music that loud in their cars, annoying the rest of us.
One bad thing is the way they portray truck drivers. In their Hollywood cocoons these writers look down on ordinary people with ordinary jobs. Everything they have in their fancy-pantsy Hollywood houses with swimming pools and all is delivered by truck but they look down their noses from their superior eyries on people who do the actual work in society. The fact that the truck driver is patriotic and automatically assumes the bad guys are "pinkos" fits in with their Communist-leaning thinking. They can't think very far out of their pods. Once the Communists take over they think because of their superior intelligence as writers (I've hobnobbed with lots of writers and they all think they're superior beings, and I've known almost as many truck drivers and they don't) they'll be the Eloi rather than the Morlocks. Come the revolution, these superior writer-types will find out what happens to intellectuals in Communist countries. All they need is to read a little history but that would mean work. And thinking out of their extreme-comfort zones.
As you can tell, I'm a tad resentful toward writers.
Nevertheless, this is an entertaining episode with neat twists. And the climax is genuinely entertaining despite its hatred for the ordinary. I can take a joke.
At one point, busybody Amanda and Lee show a phenomenal mental connection. But I won't spoil that. It's a great moment and a genuine turning point in the series.
The end is very funny with its "Apocalypse Now" overtones of a truck roaring down on the bad guys playing Wagner very loud. It was a little ahead of its time. These days people do play their music that loud in their cars, annoying the rest of us.
One bad thing is the way they portray truck drivers. In their Hollywood cocoons these writers look down on ordinary people with ordinary jobs. Everything they have in their fancy-pantsy Hollywood houses with swimming pools and all is delivered by truck but they look down their noses from their superior eyries on people who do the actual work in society. The fact that the truck driver is patriotic and automatically assumes the bad guys are "pinkos" fits in with their Communist-leaning thinking. They can't think very far out of their pods. Once the Communists take over they think because of their superior intelligence as writers (I've hobnobbed with lots of writers and they all think they're superior beings, and I've known almost as many truck drivers and they don't) they'll be the Eloi rather than the Morlocks. Come the revolution, these superior writer-types will find out what happens to intellectuals in Communist countries. All they need is to read a little history but that would mean work. And thinking out of their extreme-comfort zones.
As you can tell, I'm a tad resentful toward writers.
Nevertheless, this is an entertaining episode with neat twists. And the climax is genuinely entertaining despite its hatred for the ordinary. I can take a joke.