A better episode than the opener "Spring", but it's still far from satisfactory. Nothing much really happens, and the dialogue is almost as painful as the previous episode. I'm aware that Meadows likes his actors to improvise part of their script, but this is so poor it feels like the whole thing is improvised. Improvisation is fair enough, but you need people who are capable of delivering and this lot aren't.
The episode revolves around most of the cast heading out to the countryside in search of an illegal rave, where instead they stumble across a hippie community of travellers who have set up in a field and are banging various drums, lighting bonfires and dancing around them naked, sharing bodily fluids and taking copious amounts of alcohol and drugs. Drugs seem to be the theme of this series so far, and the only scene of real consequence comes at the end when Lol's sister Kelly decides to party with three men she's only just met, chase the dragon and let them take turns on her while she stares vacantly into space and has a few flashbacks to when she was sexually abused as a child. She awakes next morning and sits alone crying in a field declaring "I'm a slag". Requiem For A Dream this is not.
To give credit where it's due there were a few good moments, Flip is a ridiculous and unconvincing character but he provides some hilarious lines, and the episodes cliffhanger moment, where we discover Combo is about to be paroled and to Woody's horror Lol has agreed that he can live at their home as part of his bail agreement. This in itself is absurd, there are such things as Bail Hostels and I'm pretty sure the authorities would frown at a convict doing time for killing somebody with a hammer staying at the home of a family with two pre-school children. This is obviously part of the series because, err, plot reasons. "Summer" is a marked improvement on the dull opener, but it really needs to raise it's game now with just two episodes remaining.
The episode revolves around most of the cast heading out to the countryside in search of an illegal rave, where instead they stumble across a hippie community of travellers who have set up in a field and are banging various drums, lighting bonfires and dancing around them naked, sharing bodily fluids and taking copious amounts of alcohol and drugs. Drugs seem to be the theme of this series so far, and the only scene of real consequence comes at the end when Lol's sister Kelly decides to party with three men she's only just met, chase the dragon and let them take turns on her while she stares vacantly into space and has a few flashbacks to when she was sexually abused as a child. She awakes next morning and sits alone crying in a field declaring "I'm a slag". Requiem For A Dream this is not.
To give credit where it's due there were a few good moments, Flip is a ridiculous and unconvincing character but he provides some hilarious lines, and the episodes cliffhanger moment, where we discover Combo is about to be paroled and to Woody's horror Lol has agreed that he can live at their home as part of his bail agreement. This in itself is absurd, there are such things as Bail Hostels and I'm pretty sure the authorities would frown at a convict doing time for killing somebody with a hammer staying at the home of a family with two pre-school children. This is obviously part of the series because, err, plot reasons. "Summer" is a marked improvement on the dull opener, but it really needs to raise it's game now with just two episodes remaining.
