Pore Suri is dead. All gather round her coffin now and cry. She had a heart of gold. And she wasn't very old. Oh why did such a woman have to die?
Yep, they killed Suri off. I suppose they could bring her back if they tried hard enough. It's a show co-created by Stan Lee, after all. Who better to write a comic book resurrection? But it seems kind of unlikely, since Lucky Man tends to be a bit more... realistic than that. Maybe Amara Karan wanted off the show.
Plus, killing off Suri upped the threat level to some degree. Sure, killing off a beloved character is a cheap trick to get the audience on the hero's side. But it does up the ante and make Samuel more of a threat. He's still paper-thin. Samuel has scars on his back, and somehow "knows" his mother was killed by the bracelet. How the heck do you tell, exactly?
Plus seven episodes in, they needed to change things up a bit. I'm not as convinced by the manhunt for Harry, much less that Elsa is leading it. Why are they after him, again? However, it's nice to see formerly-Sneaky Steve firmly on Harry's side.
But enough nattering about what happened without describing the events themselves. "Blinded by the Light" starts with Suri's funeral. Harry is watching from the back because of the manhunt thing. He then gets into prison to see Samuel, who isn't being treated too well since he's a cop-killer. After a terse conversation, Harry leaves and some guards with the triad tattoo beat Samuel.
There are several meetings: Steve and Elsa, Eve and Cheung, Harry and Elsa. Daisy flies in from New York to see Harry, and I'm still not sure why she's involved. As an inevitable hostage? Yawn.
After Samuel is beaten, Eve knocks out a prison nurse and takes her place. She gets Samuel transferred and gives him an injection. Harry intercepts the ambulance and blocks it so that it goes off the road. Eve escapes and Samuel is seemingly dead. That night at the mortuary, Samuel wakes up from the drug-coma Eve induced, kills the pathologist, and walks out. And there's some rear nudity for the ladies. Or guys. Whoever's into that. Eve is waiting outside and they drive away.
Eve also meets with Harry and gives him the bracelet, and acts all repentant. He takes it to Cheung, and she removes the black bracelet from Harry. Once Harry leaves, relieved his "curse" is over, Eve shows up . Cheung doesn't seem to find it suspicious Eve waltzed by her guards, who we saw Samuel shoot dead. We've been seeing Cheung wants to give Eve a second chance, and Eve plays along long enough for Samuel to come in. They take both bracelets from Cheung.
Harry has heard from Steve Samuel killed the pathologist, and realizes the whole thing is a trick. He goes to Cheung's office, and Samuel forces him to drop his gun or he'll shoot Cheung dead. When Harry does so, Samuel kills her anyway. Harry runs out and Samuel chases him, and corners Harry on the roof with nowhere to go. The end.
Like I said, killing off Suri gave the show some focus. It's been kind of flabby up to now, and I'm still not sure what Samuel's plan is. Now James Nesbitt and Darren Boyd get to look all grim and determined. Bringing in Leilah De Meza as Daisy helps a little bit, too, since it gives Nesbitt a chance to do paternal. Lucky Man has never been a world-shattering kind of show. One gets the impression it would like to be, with MI6 and the triad and the premiere episode set in Hong Kong. But Lucky Man so far has worked best when it focuses on the interpersonal dramas.
So Harry and Elsa (Neve McIntosh) get to banter a bit about their one-off. (Harry, near-smirking, says it was more of a two-off). When Daisy defies Harry, Nesbitt gets to do a bit of frustration and being flabbergasted.
Rupert Penry-Jones is... Rupert Penry-Joes. He could look ominous reading a book and sipping tea
Sienna Guillory still isn't doing anything for me as Eve, sorry. I don't know if it's the actress' fault or not. But there's a lot of focus on Eve, and the character doesn't seem to be well-developed enough to support it. I don't care about the character that much, even though I guess she's supposed to be conflicted between Cheung her mother-figure, and Samuel her lover. It doesn't help that Samuel just isn't that charismatic.
But there's a hint he has some kind of medical control over Eve. Judging from how she's vomiting in one scene, not to mention a few episodes ago when he fished her out of the river and handed her over to his doctors. But Eve is still Samuel-loyal. So what was the point of the vomiting?
Judging from the previews, Samuel wants to get both bracelets. I'm not sure why he wants Harry's black bracelet. Can he undo the curse he put on it when he added the new line? Nesbitt does a good job of playing the relieved Harry once he loses the bracelet. But if the show is going to continue, Harry will have to get it back. That tends to dictate certain outcomes: Eve eventually comes around, puts the bracelet back on Harry, Samuel dies for good which means Eve probably kills him.
But we've got three more episodes to see how it plays out. Maybe they'll surprise us.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
Written by Gislef on Sep 2, 2018
I mourn for Suri.
I, too, think the show has run its course. I have enjoyed it, but the blowtorch escape from the container was a sign for me that the writers were slipping.
There's just one episode left, this season have a shortened order. Considering how's the events are unfolding, I suppose it will be the end of the show.