In a Lonely Place
- Episode aired Feb 2, 2018
- TV-MA
- 51m
Kovacs recruits an unlikely partner to watch his back during a banquet at the Bancroft home, where Ortega oversees the night's grisly entertainment.Kovacs recruits an unlikely partner to watch his back during a banquet at the Bancroft home, where Ortega oversees the night's grisly entertainment.Kovacs recruits an unlikely partner to watch his back during a banquet at the Bancroft home, where Ortega oversees the night's grisly entertainment.
- Reileen Kawahara
- (credit only)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen the married death-match couple are introduced at Bancroft's Banquet, the music played is the same as the main theme for Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Dmitri Shostakovich's "Waltz No. 2, Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra". The fact of the marriage is a central plot-point in this scene. These are married couples with children, engaged with power circles far above their social position, working against each other for family and status, and with uncertain long term survival.
- GoofsWhen Kovacs is walking through the garden, about to enter the dinner party at Suntouch house, a bloodstain is visible on the right side of the shirt, just below the collar. In the next short, the stain has disappeared in the shirt is clean white. The bloodstain only appears after the fight in zero gravity, much later in the episode.
- Quotes
Laurens Bancroft: You think we should leave it up to God, do you?
[chuckles]
Laurens Bancroft: Oh, Mr. Kovacs, haven't you heard? God is dead. We have taken his place.
Takeshi Kovacs: If you're a god, then, uh, what the hell do you need me for?
Laurens Bancroft: Every deity has minions. Observe. Absorb. Find what others have missed.
- ConnectionsReferences In a Lonely Place (1950)
- SoundtracksKARATE
Written by Yuyoyuppe (Yuppemetal)
Performed by BABYMETAL
In keeping with the series so far, this episode opens with a flashback to Kovacs' childhood that showcases the series's willingness to push the envelope visually, creatively intercutting a traumatic experience he and his sister endure with hand-drawn, anime-style animation. Every episode ends with a short graphic of depicting some aspect of the following episode. There's just a lot to look at here. And because nothing about this show is repetitive, the big fight sequence this time is zero-gravity, complete with zero-g blood splattering. Have I mentioned the violence yet? No? Let's just say I look away a lot.
Oh, and I totally want a set of the glasses they drink from at parties in the Aerium.
- LorenBieg
- Feb 2, 2018
Details
- Runtime51 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1