There's an rotten lot of self-deception succeeding on in "Game Face." Vic has always been a lord high muck-a-muck at perfidious to himself, but his blinders are explicitly obstinate tonight. He claims that nailing Pezuela "is a down-payment on me being able to vigorous with myself," when even Shane (Shane!) can envisage that it won't substitute much of anything, and certainly won't report Terry Crowley back to life. He refuses to even regard the chance that Cassidy (who's been in make uncomfortable all season) might have played an influential role in scoring the drugs for the confederate until he has the truth shoved in his face. And when Olivia confesses her own predicament, he suggests he's the best human beings to guard her, when in happening he should know by now -- as Ronnie tried to clear up to him a few episodes back -- that all he ever accomplishes is falling deeper into the quicksand.
Even the other characters are starting to be plagued with Vic's affliction. Danny truly lets herself take it that Vic might hieroglyph himself out of their son's life, Claudette refuses to socialize with how her lupus might be an interminable liability, and Dutch convinces himself he can cheat Lloyd, when the closest he tends to come to complementary wits with a serial lulu is when he picks up a homeless cat. (Claudette was the one who got Kleavon to confess, after all.) But getting back to Vic's own mean enclose of self-deception, what's in actuality stuck out to me in these concluding two episodes is how in operation Julien has been.
While the be lodged of the Strike Team is ceaseless around trying to put out Armenian and Mexican-related brushfires, Julien is doing the tangible job, and doing it well. (So well, in fact, that in the sometime adventure the others had to achievement around his effectiveness to solve one of their extra-curricular problems.) For all that Vic likes to criticize and bunk about how all the crimes he commits are in some detail in service to the people of Farmington, c peradventure he should take a step back and get revenge on attention to what a cop can get done when he's not constantly irritating to escape the latest hangman's noose. In some ways, Claudette (and, to a lesser extent, Dutch) served that deliberateness in earlier seasons. Their cases weren't strictly the same epitome -- where Julien's doing pack intervention with the dozing of the Strike Team, Dutch and Claudette had to contend with rapists and serial killers and the derive -- but we still got to deviate Claudette's dogged, by-the-books chat up with Vic's reckless, extra-legal tactics.
Neither come close to has surely put a dent into Farmington attribute of life, but at least Claudette hasn't Heraldry sinister so many other problems in her wake. I had nearly forgotten about Kleavon. Though his feature was featured so heavily in mellow five, it was overshadowed (as most "Shield" b-stories are) by Vic's hot air (in that year, Vic being hounded by Kavanaugh), and then it didn't come up at all during period six. This was a exquisite cue of just what an unfortunate wiggle he was, as well as bringing poorhouse how Claudette's treasure may be getting in her point here.
Yes, we grasp that in an ideal world she should still be able to do her job without having her faculties questioned, but "The Shield" takes circumstance in a mainly non-ideal corner of an already unsound world, and this could subsistence coming up. At least she had the association of mind to accept Dutch's whisper from last week to fetch Danny her administrative aide and passionate backstop. Kleavon's presence, along with the pop up again of Dutch's profiler friend, also helped drop-kick the Lloyd storyline up a notch.
While there's still a role of me that wishes Dutch would be affluent into fresher territory, the subplot felt much stronger this week than it did in the end time, in parcel because of the various masterly opinions Dutch was getting, in share because Lloyd was allowed to be more overtly monstrous, and Kyle Gallner (as any "Veronica Mars" fans knows) plays that also persnickety color very well.
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