The Whirlwind
- Episode aired Jan 18, 2019
- TV-MA
- 58m
IMDb RATING
9.0/10
5.6K
YOUR RATING
Frank, Pilgrim, Madani, Russo, Amy, Curt and the Schultz family. No bullet is left unspent as season two comes to an explosive conclusion.Frank, Pilgrim, Madani, Russo, Amy, Curt and the Schultz family. No bullet is left unspent as season two comes to an explosive conclusion.Frank, Pilgrim, Madani, Russo, Amy, Curt and the Schultz family. No bullet is left unspent as season two comes to an explosive conclusion.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode is named after proverbial phrase "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind" Hosea 8-7.
- GoofsIn the hotel-room shootout, bullets are being fired through the wall easily as you'd expect. Frank then dives through the damaged wall and they shoot at each other with Frank behind a cupboard and Pilgrim behind an internal wall. Bullets hit both of these bits of flimsy cover and leave the men behind them miraculously unscathed.
- Quotes
Amy Bendix: He's... the Punisher; he's going to, like, righteously pull your spine out of your throat.
Featured review
S2: Good action, but messy plot and uneven tone make it only 'okay'
I wasn't overly taken by the first season of the show, but it offered enough to make me come back for more. The first episode or so doesn't waste any time to throw us into a standalone story where Castle help a teenager, only to become the target of all manner of highly trained killers. The reasons for this are deliberately obscured, but it helps because when it is finally revealed, it doesn't mean too much. We follow this thread for a few episodes, then we jump back into New York, while the first plot is put on the back burner aside from a few aspects of it.
This movement between characters and plots is part of the season's several problems. The messiness of it means it doesn't have the strength in through-line that it needed. Related to this is the usual problem that 13 hours is just too long for the content. This produces the feeling that it is being drawn out in some ways, but has the bigger impact of the drama feeling like a 'lull' ahead of the next action scene - where really it needed to be building towards them, not just waiting for them. The action is good though, not consistently unfortunately - and it does get its best scenes delivered early in the season. At its best the brutality brings real impact to the action, but later it too often feels like it is wallowing in its morbidity, or doing it in lieu of anything else.
The cast put in good work. Bernthal is a strong lead, and able to do more when asked. A lot is on Barnes this season, and although the script doesn't help him all the time, he does well. Stewart is enjoyable as an addition, although it feels like he is off in his own thing doing a character disconnected from everything else for the majority of the season. Revah is better in this season. Whigham and Lima are okay, but the plot asks them to sell quite a lot. Production standards are high, and everything looks good, but it is the writing and being asked to run longer than it should have done that makes it a weaker season. The good bits make the whole 'okay', but as with season 1, it is only consistently that, and not more.
This movement between characters and plots is part of the season's several problems. The messiness of it means it doesn't have the strength in through-line that it needed. Related to this is the usual problem that 13 hours is just too long for the content. This produces the feeling that it is being drawn out in some ways, but has the bigger impact of the drama feeling like a 'lull' ahead of the next action scene - where really it needed to be building towards them, not just waiting for them. The action is good though, not consistently unfortunately - and it does get its best scenes delivered early in the season. At its best the brutality brings real impact to the action, but later it too often feels like it is wallowing in its morbidity, or doing it in lieu of anything else.
The cast put in good work. Bernthal is a strong lead, and able to do more when asked. A lot is on Barnes this season, and although the script doesn't help him all the time, he does well. Stewart is enjoyable as an addition, although it feels like he is off in his own thing doing a character disconnected from everything else for the majority of the season. Revah is better in this season. Whigham and Lima are okay, but the plot asks them to sell quite a lot. Production standards are high, and everything looks good, but it is the writing and being asked to run longer than it should have done that makes it a weaker season. The good bits make the whole 'okay', but as with season 1, it is only consistently that, and not more.
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- bob the moo
- Mar 9, 2019
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- Runtime58 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD
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