Poor Leon. From the start of the series, nearly nothing has gone his way. In this episode we see how Leon Taylor becomes involved in a child services investigation. One of his sons was climbing the back wall in their backyard when he accidently fell breaking his arm. To refresh, Leon accidently hit his wife, hurting her arm and giving her a busted lip. When Leon brought his son to the hospital, they become suspicious when they see the damage to Leons’ wife, and son. Child services investigates Leon of beating them both, and eventually leaks it to the press. Wilbanks, the team owner, tells Leon that he and his wife must lie to reporters and deny everything. This doesnt fare too well with Leons’ wife.
Demetrius Harris is finally forced to enter rehab from his coach and Wilbanks. Hes enrolled to stay three days, and the team writes that he has flu on the injury report to keep his drug problem a secret. Surprise, Surprise, Harris paid an employee to allow him to leave rehab early. One of Harris’ friends picks him up from rehab and they do drugs in the car in an alley. One of the girls in the car Harris is in starts to overdose and is brought to the hospital. Through six episodes, his character is annoying. He consistently finds himself in bad situations every episode. The only reason he doesnt pay any consequences, is because he is too good of a player.
I am going to rate this episode a two out of five. I starting to notice how this show follows a certain pattern and heres how it goes. In every episode we find Demetrius Harris in another bad situation, but never seems to take responsibility for it. Also, Leon Taylor always encounters a new problem, making you feel bad for him. Next episode, id like this show to throw a curveball at me. All the events in the show seem rather predictable and I am still waiting for that “wow!” factor.
October 12, 2009 at 8:54 pm |
Nick,
I’m not seeing you answer any of the questions from the assignment sheet here in your blog responses. This will hurt your grade. I’m also looking for less of an episode recap (I’ve already seen this series) and more of your reactions to it, like you did in the last paragraph here & some in the previous post for episode 5. It’s great that you’ve discovered the “episode template” for this series. What do they need to do to keep your attention? Rating the episode out of 5 and giving me a sentence or two at the end about your thoughts is not enough.