![]() until she eventually passes out and wakes up to find herself tied to a bed. We get a very long and dull Robinson Crusoe montage of her trying and failing to find water, starting a fire, getting burned by said fire, etc. (Incidentally, I thought murder and high treason were the kinds of things they sent you to the New World as a PUNISHMENT for.) Well, she washes up on the sort of beach you would pay a tremendous amount per night to stay within a stone’s throw of, and despite being fairly swiftly near death from exposure, her hair looks magnificent. Last week, as you’ll recall, Claire had jumped off the English ship in hopes of encountering Jamie before he landed in Jamaica to be promptly arrested by the authorities. We really had to wait for it, though! DID WE EVER. It’s always worth it, of course, as it is in tonight’s episode, when Jamie and Claire run to each other across the beach like Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity, and then have delightfully explicit sex. “Claire falls into a pit and they have to braid a rope out of Jamie’s hair to pull her out?” “It’s very foggy and she gets taken in by an Australian pirate?” “Uhh … she has her period and they’re somewhere where they make menstruating women live in a tent?” It sometimes feels like the writers must sit around, coming up with reasons that Claire and Jamie will have to spend three days apart: This episode was a solid three stars on account of being super-boring until the last 20 minutes, which jammed in so much enjoyability that I had to up it to a light four! The show (and, for that matter, the book series) has figured out that what it does best is sexy reunions following periods of separation. Photo: David Bloomer/Starz Entertainment, LLC
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