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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 5908" data-attributes="member: 23">POP USED TO WORK CHINATOWNDick O&#039;Neil as Charlie Cagney is great. His character feels very clear even this early on, and he brings out some really nice colours in Meg Foster. They&#039;re enjoyable to watch together. I loved when he went all old-school cop whilst trying to get information - donning a trench coat, hat and eyepatch, and physically intimidating someone to get information. As I write, I&#039;m aware how larger than life it seems, but it fitted in perfectly. Harv&#039;s arc was interesting here - his joy at getting a hard hat job and Mary Beth&#039;s schoolgirl excitement at seeing her husband at work quickly balanced by a recurrence of his inner ear problem meaning he was let go. There&#039;s a nice character arc for both women when a man is killed from a bullet fired at the car by either Christine or Mary Beth. Mary Beth wants to know which of them fired the fatal shot. Chris seems less bothered but is nonetheless quickly on board because she can see how much it means to Mary Beth. I really appreciated that the emotional consequences of a tv shootout were given this space to be explored. To me, the &quot;obvious&quot; route here would be the have the laissez faire partner revealed to be the one who killed someone and to see what the response is. Instead, the insistent Mary Beth is revealed to have fired the fatal shot and it really feels like a blow.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 5908, member: 23"] [I][B]POP USED TO WORK CHINATOWN[/B][/I] Dick O'Neil as Charlie Cagney is great. His character feels very clear even this early on, and he brings out some really nice colours in Meg Foster. They're enjoyable to watch together. I loved when he went all old-school cop whilst trying to get information - donning a trench coat, hat and eyepatch, and physically intimidating someone to get information. As I write, I'm aware how larger than life it seems, but it fitted in perfectly. Harv's arc was interesting here - his joy at getting a hard hat job and Mary Beth's schoolgirl excitement at seeing her husband at work quickly balanced by a recurrence of his inner ear problem meaning he was let go. There's a nice character arc for both women when a man is killed from a bullet fired at the car by either Christine or Mary Beth. Mary Beth wants to know which of them fired the fatal shot. Chris seems less bothered but is nonetheless quickly on board because she can see how much it means to Mary Beth. I really appreciated that the emotional consequences of a tv shootout were given this space to be explored. To me, the "obvious" route here would be the have the laissez faire partner revealed to be the one who killed someone and to see what the response is. Instead, the insistent Mary Beth is revealed to have fired the fatal shot and it really feels like a blow. [/QUOTE]

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