Model is an episode that's open to interpretation but, in my eyes, it's one of the best yet. Please note, this review is more than a little spoilerific so please don't read until you've enjoyed the instalment and you've made your own mind up about its content.
Model is just very clever, very smart television. In the opening scene, we see a Louie who's down on his luck. He can't even get a word in edgeways with a delightful waitress, played by the singer Bree Sharp. She cuts him off before he's able to mutter even a few syllables. Nothing's a worse turn off than desperation, Louie discovers.
My interpretation of the rest of this episode is that the events that follow are just a fictional account that Louie invents to win Bree Sharp's character over. Louie's meeting with Seinfeld in the bar, the subsequent disastrous benefit opener and the accident prone night with Yvonne Strahovski's Blake are all, I believe, make-believe. As a result, everything in the tale is hyped up to 10. The benefit is full of "billionaires and trillionaires", the car park is full of nothing but Maserati, Ferrari, Aston and BMW exotica, Blake's house is the stuff of dreams, and so on. Even Blake's father is an astronaut.
It's subtle but watch Louie's expression as the end credits roll. He's smiling because he's just tossed Jamie, the waitress who wouldn't give him the time of day earlier, the biggest load of rubbish and she's bought into it, hook, line and sinker. His injured face is stage-dressing. Louie's been craftier than he's ever had to be before but he's won the girl. He cannot believe she's bought into his story tale but he's delighted to have pulled it off. Result.
10 out of 10. Just brilliant.
Model is just very clever, very smart television. In the opening scene, we see a Louie who's down on his luck. He can't even get a word in edgeways with a delightful waitress, played by the singer Bree Sharp. She cuts him off before he's able to mutter even a few syllables. Nothing's a worse turn off than desperation, Louie discovers.
My interpretation of the rest of this episode is that the events that follow are just a fictional account that Louie invents to win Bree Sharp's character over. Louie's meeting with Seinfeld in the bar, the subsequent disastrous benefit opener and the accident prone night with Yvonne Strahovski's Blake are all, I believe, make-believe. As a result, everything in the tale is hyped up to 10. The benefit is full of "billionaires and trillionaires", the car park is full of nothing but Maserati, Ferrari, Aston and BMW exotica, Blake's house is the stuff of dreams, and so on. Even Blake's father is an astronaut.
It's subtle but watch Louie's expression as the end credits roll. He's smiling because he's just tossed Jamie, the waitress who wouldn't give him the time of day earlier, the biggest load of rubbish and she's bought into it, hook, line and sinker. His injured face is stage-dressing. Louie's been craftier than he's ever had to be before but he's won the girl. He cannot believe she's bought into his story tale but he's delighted to have pulled it off. Result.
10 out of 10. Just brilliant.