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movie files elliott back again with my weekly recap breakdown review of the latest episode
of waterless man we're talking episode 8 which was titled ready aim fire an episode in which
we primarily spend the entire episode with roxanne and her crew and we learn more backstory where she
comes from we're breaking it all down here in the spoiler review but before we dive into it all make
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talking full spoilers once you've seen this eighth episode let's talk about it all your
pros your cons your thoughts and theories for the final two episodes of the season
and let's talk about did you enjoy learning about roxanne and her lies seeing hero
and sam break up and what this can mean for noah in this group let's talk about it in the comments
below so before we break down this episode as you all may know by now but just in the last 24 hours
it's come out that fx on hulu will not be moving forward with the season 2 of the show
the show writer and some of the people behind the scenes have come out and said that they want to
continue these stories they just want to find a new home for this series uh and i'll get into my
reasons why i think the show is not moving forward on fx on hulu but let me know your thoughts on it
are you sad about the news are you not surprised by the news where would you like to see this show
continue its story on another platform let's talk about in the comments below but i'll again
stick around to the end of the video because i'll give my thoughts about the trajectory of the show
and why this was potentially cancelled by fx on hulu but let's get into the recap as we you know
this episode i'm not gonna lie guys i'm not the biggest fan of roxanne and her whole situation
i don't like that we spend entire episodes with them i don't know why they can't just split up the
uh york 355 and everything going on in the white house split it up with roxanne because whenever we
just focus on that group it's the weakest story in my personal opinion there are some positives
that will break down but for the most part ladies and gentlemen i'm not a big fan of this particular
storyline and we'll get into my reasons here in a bit but again let me know how you all
felt about this episode but speaking of roxanne we opened up with her killing one of her own people
i believe her name was kate because we got a flashback with caden they had a friendship but we
later find out why she killed kate and you know just jumping right into it now we find out that
you know kate found out her secret in regards to who she really is and who roxanne was she real
detective and all the stuff she told them so she killed her for the secret wouldn't get out which
we'll talk about another character fighting about her secret and why she didn't just kill her but
neither you know there we'll talk about that later but we see in the opening sequence she kills kade
she's teaching the girls how to protect themselves and sam refuses to use a gun and this is when
roxanne wants them to be prepared for what's out there which is just more of her bs to be honest
with you in regards to she wants these women which this is the positive about this episode and kind
of the positive about roxanne the mindset right it's the whole psychology of how she's tricking
these women to trust her to believe in her to want them to think that they can only be protected with
her safety she's almost playing a stereotypical how men view themselves like women need to rely
on men women need to trust in men they can only be protected by men so she's taking like she's using
reverse psychology when she's like all the stuff that men did is horrible but i'm going to take
some of those attributes and make you guys you know feel protected by me so i like how the show
narratively is kind of enrolled like kind of bringing that narrative into her characters i'm
just not the biggest fan of the actor playing the character and i feel like it's a little hollow at
times but we'll talk about that when we get down to some of my criticisms but i do like how the
show is kind of building this character even though i'm not a big fan of like the actress
and after a role but as we kind of move forward again they mentioned that they want to protect
themselves from the threats out there and i don't think the show if i'm being honest again this
is just the psychology that she's playing into them that there might not be that much to fear
but the show really hasn't like expanded on what is out there to be fearful of you know i mean of
course there's been people that probably will rob you still steal from you want your clothes
want your resources but the show really hasn't dove into that apocalyptic end of the world you
know all out chaos we get glimpses of that but really hasn't dove deeper into the aspect which
is maybe one of the reasons why the show isn't doing that well compared to what i've heard
from the comics but again we'll leave that conversation towards the end as we go back to
the recap here that scene leads us into the very next kind of the first flashback that we get with
roxanne as she comes across the women as she's seeming to be protective she says that she's a
detective and we see this is how she is slowly forming this group and forming them to believe
that they're gonna be safe in her uh you know in her sight and keep her keep them from being
anything harming them because they heard a gunshot which we inevitably know that was from her but
we see the beginnings of her forming her own group going back to roxanne she's trying to
continue to break hero and get hero on her side as she wants her to talk about her family and
particularly her brother and how her brother never stuck up for her and this is where sam is trying
is having a conversation with nora which that's another character that i just don't feel like
the show doesn't really know since the first episode to be honest with you i don't know what
what noise point of the show is so far but either way nora's trying to convince sam to talk to hiro
for they can all go back to the pentagon if she can be safe and be in a position of power because
obviously right now paralleling again going back to my positive in this episode because there
wasn't that many but this is a positive there's a parallel between nora and how she feels right
now left out doesn't feel like she's part of a group and how that correlates to how roxanne feel
before she got this group she was very much in the same boat without having a daughter of course like
mckenzie for uh nora but they have very similarities where they feel like they're not
in a position of power and we saw how one person had to lie to get a position of power and how that
parallels to noah's position being in politics she knows all about the lies and the deceit and how
politicians get people on their side so that is an interesting dynamic between those two characters
even though again i feel like the performances aren't that strong but back to it as we see hiro
and sam having a fight about their differences of opinion on if they should stay if they should go
but more particularly if they should be in a relationship and how sam is you know hitting
off with the one girl that was hitting on him a couple weeks ago and ultimately roxanne breaks up
this fight because again it's a man the yelling at a woman and we know how she feels about that
how she feels about man and ultimately we see that sam leaves at the middle of the night and roxanne
says we're gonna take care of hero and leaving him off to his own journey which i inevitably
would assume we're gonna see probably sam make his way to the pentagon let them know
the hero's alive and again i mentioned it many many weeks ago hero's going to be so like brain
you know like wash brainwashed by roxanne she's not going to want to join her mom she's not going
to want to join uric and it's going to be like this whole family dynamic that's why i assume it's
gonna probably happen by the end of this season uh maybe the last season of this show which we talked
about up top but moving on we get more of the flashbacks of roxanne as again we see the truth
that she lied about being a detective we see the whole thing how she set it up she fired a gun off
in the air she took the horse to them and again her whole angle is you need to trust me you need
to know that i'm going to protect you again just brainwashing this women who come from this abusive
past relationships where they couldn't trust people and now she's manipulating
them playing on their their kind of uh trauma that they have to get them on her side again
i understand what the show is doing i just don't think the execution is all that great in my
opinion but back to it cut to hero chugging the last of sam's belongings and they have like this
free themselves free yourself with the past type of party and their past of their their
men relationships as nora is alone like i mentioned and even her daughter doesn't
even want to be around her she wants to stay there so again it plays back to norwich like
being alone and we saw what you know roxanne was willing to do to get people to embrace her and not
be alone well we see noah taking the extreme which i'm not gonna lie was one of the dumbest decisions
i've seen the character do in this show and again it's meant to be dumb it's meant to show you what
she's willing to do to get the attention that she thinks she wants as we see that very dumb decision
i say it's done because she sets the building on fire she's not a superhero she can't control fire
what if that fire would have went way out of control than what she could con you know what if
people didn't wake up what if there was obviously it's a like a costco they'd probably have propane
tanks and fire hazard things what if her daughter would have died in that fire she would have been
looking really stupid from that decision again that moment i was just like i don't understand
nora i am so tired of this character it is such a pointless character but as i digress what a
stupid ass decision but it's a decision that kind of played in her favor because she can somewhat
now stay with this group which we'll talk about here in a second but moving back into it as we get
more of roxanne's plans on becoming the detective in her flashback and you know how she felt alone
on her own and how she was getting the girls on her side and again correlating that to nora story
we go back to catching up with sam which he is he finds the school he meets this principal blackwell
who thinks the kids are going to come back to school one day i don't know why uh but she gets
to singing the song he's playing i don't know why they put that scene in the episode i assume
blackwell might be a character moving forward i assume this is gonna have something to do with
the overall narrative but as it stands right now it seems like a completely empty scene that
did not need to be in the episode and that was literally the last time that we saw sam wrapping
up the episode we see nora finds roxanne secret in the water and finds out about the identity that
she's been taking on we get one more flashback of roxanne of her killing all the women that came
into the store which is very interesting for the character because we again we know that she's like
i hate men men are terrible men deserve to die but yes she's killing women innocent women women that
are looking for food looking for shelter she's killing them so again it makes her character
interesting to say the least as we wrap up things nora confronts roxanne about her lies they cut a
deal which i'm like hold up roxanne we just saw that she's a ruthless killer she's willing to
do anything to keep her secret and do really anything to keep these people safe in her eyes
why didn't she just kill nora like what was the point of keeping nora alive why didn't she just
shoot her or overpower her i have no idea but she goes they they seamlessly cut a deal as we see and
we get another flashback kind of just getting more of roxanne's point of position when she used to
she actually used to work in the store she used to be like an assistant manager she complained
about a gentleman assaulting uh harassing this girl this teenager and the the manager
didn't do anything so it again it's building the character it's just like the execution
just isn't it isn't strong enough for me it's just like i'm seeing this but it doesn't have emotion
it doesn't it feels hallow if i'm being honest and it's just my opinion some of you all might really
relate to roxanne you might really be engaged in a story i see and i understand the sentiments i just
don't feel like it's being executed enough to hit me on that emotional level that it might be
hitting you all and again i don't mean to offend anyone that's really entangled and really engaged
i just feel like it's coming off hallow which brings me to speaking of hallow
and again i don't mean to offend anyone that's really connected to the story but
as we wrap up and see roxanne talking about the amazonian women how they you know fought and how
they you know protected themselves and this whole speech and them haran and celebrating
it just didn't work did i understand the sentiment so much and i understand what they're trying to
convey i just don't feel like it's clicking for me it's the actress it's the line delivery it's the
way that the shot is the way that it's paced it's the exposition it's the flashback it just is not
hitting home for me personally and i almost feel like they should have probably put diane lane in
that role as roxanne to really convey the emotions to really make you like really get deep into that
character because it's complex it's a very complex character she does want to do good but she's doing
these things in a very terrible manner how she lied and killed people to get this position to
not be alone to force these women coming from this trauma to trust in her it's a terrible thing to do
but she's protecting them in some weird way and it's in a place of love in some weird way but i
just don't think that the actress is doing it for me and and i'm being honest that whole plot just
isn't doing it for me emotionally it just feels hallow but again that's just my thoughts i talked
about my positives i talked about my negatives which bring me to that announcement i talked about
up top the show you all if you've been watching my reviews for the last eight weeks it's had as high
it's had its lows but i think that the lows really are to say the highs really haven't brought that
many people in i covered on a weekly basis i know there's some people that also have been covering
this show on a weekly basis and doing a good job of doing so but i just don't think the show
from my understanding of what this graphic novel had to offer when it came out so many years ago
i don't think the show is is giving the audience what they're looking for either if they're
coming from the graphic novel or even if there's someone that's a fan of sci-fi apocalyptic stories
this show is just not clicking on all cylinders as i think it could it has all the potentiality
of being a great sci-fi show with some really good social commentary but i just don't think the show
is evenly paced i don't think the performances are even i don't think the narrative has been
that constructive i don't think the narrative has been that compelling it's just missing so
much that it has to offer and um i believe that's why fx which has a high quality fargo and the you
know all the stuff that they've put out you know with uh all the great shows they've had in their
run i don't think that this is on the same caliber but with that being said man i think
that in the right hands in the right networks i'm not gonna lie fx has not been promoting this show
at all the promotion has been horrendous like little to no promotions of being honest which
speaks to them probably one of the decisions not only is it a numbers game but it just doesn't
feel like they have the most intent for the show to be the biggest thing that it could be but
if i'm you know the creators and talent behind it i'm looking at hbo as a potential home in
particular hbo max um because they have the money they have the budget they they
tell a lot of these kind of similar stories you know with how you know women feel kind of left
out and and just the lgbtq community angle and the minority angle there's hbo has that type of
platform that kind of speaks to these stories but also i think uh um apple tv will be a great
landing place but we'll see what happens with the show i do find it odd that they announced it
the eighth episode with two episodes left like normally you get this announcement at the end
so it really does speak that fx is like we want to get our hands clean of this and want to wrap
this up before we can move on to another project so that's just my thoughts let me know yours on
the episode pros cons thoughts and theories for the weeks ahead your thoughts on why fx
decided not to move forward and let's talk about it all in the comments below if you stuck around
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