The Gates - 1x02 - What Lies Beneath

[fembuck]

Still good, and episode two comes with 75% more lesbian subtext!  That last scene!  OMG, that last scene!

TV Series: The Gates (2010)
Network: ABC
Cast: Frank Grillo, Marisol Nichols, Rhona Mitra♥, Luke Mably, Travis Caldwell, Skyler Samuels, Colton Haynes, Chandra West♥, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Justin Miles, Janina Gavankar, Georgia Cole, Brett Cullen, James Preston.
Genre(s): Drama | Horror | Thriller
Plot Outline:  The Monahan family abandons Chicago to settle into a private mountain community, The Gates, where father Nick becomes the new police chief. But the picturesque neighborhood is not idyllic as it seems, as a dark secret is buried just beneath the surface. Nick becomes entangled in a mystery in which he will start to piece together the dark truth about his family's new home.
Certification: USA: TV-PG
Episode Description: What Nick starts to discover about the Gates disturbs him.
Download: here! (.avi, 350 mb)

Oh, The Gates!  You tease!

The Claire/Devon scenes on this show are made of pure win.  It’s like not only have Rhona Mitra and Chandra West decided that eye-fucking constantly is a necessity for their characters, but the writers, director, lighting and set design people also agree that their scenes need to be infused with epic amounts of sexual tension.  Seriously, when Claire locked the door and then began to saunter towards Devon, while Devon smirked at her smugly I thought they were going to do it right on the work bench.  And that scene with Devon drawing Claire’s blood, Mm.

Speaking of ‘Mm’ that scene between Claire and Dylan was also pretty hot (and I actually liked the song this played during Claire’s walk to bedroom).  Rhona Mitra’s mouth touching another person is always a good recipe for sexy times, and when you combine it with Claire provoking Dylan to get him to be more animalistic ... Mm x infinity plus 1.  Thank god there was some sexy vampire loving on TV last night (because other than that Pam scene True Blood grossed me the hell out *shudder*)

I’m still utterly bored to tears by Charlie and Andie.  I don’t care.  Andie being a succubus is kind of cool, but she’s stuck in this useless waste of a storyline which makes me not really give a shit.  I can’t even recall most of what happened in the Charlie/Andie scenes because I was so mind-numbingly bored.

The werewolves on the hand, I’m getting more intrigued by.  I like the pretty blond wolf boy, and I’m interested in learning more about the werewolf subculture and pack life.  Plus, I continue to dig the tension between Brett/Pretty!Blond.  I don’t know if those actors got the same memo Rhona and Chandra did about gaying up their scenes as much as possible, but I suspect they did because the boys are bringing it too!

The Chief continues to be an insufferable asshole.  It’s like, the guy is right about so much but he just does everything in the most grating, condescending way which makes it impossible to root for him.  I totally want a scene sometimes in the future (hopefully near) where Dylan Radcliff gets pimp slap the hell out of the Chief.

I wish we’d gotten more of Leigh Turner’s (Janina Gavankar’s) personal life this episode instead of The Live of Loves of Deputy Whitebread.  Honestly, the guy deputy doesn’t bug me, but he doesn’t really interest me either, and Leigh seems to be the one with the secrets and the charisma so I’d rather be spending more time with her than with the other one.

Devon continues to be a fierce bitch, and I continue to be interested and confused as hell as to what her interest is in Claire (beyond my femslash fantasies).    I will however throw the idea out there that Claire’s neighbour didn’t seen shit, and Devon made up that story about the spell to obscure her memory to make Claire feel pressured and thus send Claire into Devon’s waiting clutches. 

All in all, eagerly awaiting next week!

Comments

re: true blood

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

i DEFINITELY laughed more than once. like when Sam's REALLY unfortunate family members showed up in his bar. i knew nothing good could come from that.

Oooh, Sam's bio-family is a train wreck. I HATE Tommy. He's a smarmy little shit. Then again, look at his parents. Sam's mom is the only one I kind of like, but I feel like she's going to turn out to be the biggest prick of them all, so I can't fully like her even though she seems sweet/sympathetic right now.

Jason "attempting" to study for a police exam was comical. can he even read??? I also cracked up when the Chief quit! hell i would've done the same damn thing!

After that scene, I'm beginning to doubt it. Jason is sweet, but boy howdie is that boy dumb.

And Deerborne quitting was great! I could totally see an old guy like him just having enough of it. The "I'm too old for this shit!" speech was gold. And I have to admit the possibility of Chief Andy Bellefluer makes me smile!

and that sex scene he dreamed up was like something out of Twin Peaks! what the hell was that??!!! that was totally creepy!

Was that a dream? DEAR GOD I HOPE SO! The least said about the scene the better. Honestly, that scene disturbed the hell out of me and the head twisting was completely unnecessary. I understood that Bill was really, really, really ... really mad at Lorena before that.

now the sex scene between Tara & 'new guy' Franklin

I honestly found this scene kind of weird/funny. Tara seemed to enjoy what he was doing a lot, but I found the faces they were making to be ... uncomfortable. I'm definitely interested by these two though, and am enjoying their scenes together.

as for Pam's lick-fest: what the heck was that?! a hurricane?! if it was: good for her 'trick', bad for us viewers.

Yeah, that scene was not as sexy as it should have been considering it was PAM going down on a stripper. Then again, I've found that this show isn't really great with romantic/erotic type love scenes. They just go hard and dirty on this show, so it doesn't surprise me that THAT was how they handled Pam's first on-screen sexing (which is a real shame, because I would love to see a genuinely romantic/erotic love scene with Pam and another female character).