The season 2 of Enlightened premiered on Sunday January 13 on HBO. It's officially named #11, "The Key."
Amy Jellicoe (played by Laura Dern) is on a mission. She's always on a mission of one sort of another. It is how she defines herself and gives her life meaning.
Amy is tired of feeling small. She needs to do something to feel alive. She doesn't want to go back to being nothing. Tyler on the other hand is something of a nebbish. He doesn't have much ambition, he doesn't want much from life; he's just a quiet guy who lives a quiet lonely life. Maybe that is why Amy has so much power to manipulate him—she may be his only friend.
A lot of time in this episode is spent on voice-over philosophy-ing. There are lots of shots of skyscrapers glittering in the night and talk of "dreams and kingdoms and how this will end and life and earth will reign again." (The writers have apparently fell into a bushel of metaphors.) And the final shot—the "guess-what- the-metaphor-means" moment of the week-- is a sea turtle swimming alone in the ocean.
Oh my little seas turtles—each of us swims alone in the sea of life.
This is an excerpt from my full review posted to my blog called Premium cable Reviews. I haven't done too many spoilers here, but I tell all on the blog.
Amy Jellicoe (played by Laura Dern) is on a mission. She's always on a mission of one sort of another. It is how she defines herself and gives her life meaning.
Amy is tired of feeling small. She needs to do something to feel alive. She doesn't want to go back to being nothing. Tyler on the other hand is something of a nebbish. He doesn't have much ambition, he doesn't want much from life; he's just a quiet guy who lives a quiet lonely life. Maybe that is why Amy has so much power to manipulate him—she may be his only friend.
A lot of time in this episode is spent on voice-over philosophy-ing. There are lots of shots of skyscrapers glittering in the night and talk of "dreams and kingdoms and how this will end and life and earth will reign again." (The writers have apparently fell into a bushel of metaphors.) And the final shot—the "guess-what- the-metaphor-means" moment of the week-- is a sea turtle swimming alone in the ocean.
Oh my little seas turtles—each of us swims alone in the sea of life.
This is an excerpt from my full review posted to my blog called Premium cable Reviews. I haven't done too many spoilers here, but I tell all on the blog.
