The consistent run of good episodes that have made up this first half of the second season continues. As the show mixes some back story with the current plot, this time to focus on the love between Judy and her adopted father.
Trapped down the well, and with his abdomen pierced by a metal fragment, John (Toby Stephens) thinks back over his relationship with his eldest daughter Judy (Taylor Russell). Judy is racing back to her father when her rover breaks down and she is forced to run several miles to try and get him the medicine he needs. Meanwhile, on the Resolute, Penny (Mina Sundwell) takes exception to Dr Smith's (Parker Posey) newfound freedom and begins to work on bringing her down.
The thing that struck me in this episode, more than it has in any of the others so far, is how Toby Stephens, so often the villain, or at the very least anti-hero, has made John Robinson into a great TV dad. For the first time (that I can remember) we learned something about Judy's biological father, an astronaut who passed away very early in her life. There are then several flashbacks showing John supporting her at various points in her youth. Juxtaposed with the (admittedly unlikely) threat to John's life, it was all quite moving. Particularly Judy's emotional speech to keep him fighting.
Ben (who increasingly is looking like turning out to be a villain) travels with Maureen and Will to try and find O.G Robot. Whilst Penny recruits her love interest Vijay to try and bring down Dr Smith before another game changing twist at the end.
Another decent, if as others have pointed out somewhat derivative, episode for a show that's found its feet at last.
Trapped down the well, and with his abdomen pierced by a metal fragment, John (Toby Stephens) thinks back over his relationship with his eldest daughter Judy (Taylor Russell). Judy is racing back to her father when her rover breaks down and she is forced to run several miles to try and get him the medicine he needs. Meanwhile, on the Resolute, Penny (Mina Sundwell) takes exception to Dr Smith's (Parker Posey) newfound freedom and begins to work on bringing her down.
The thing that struck me in this episode, more than it has in any of the others so far, is how Toby Stephens, so often the villain, or at the very least anti-hero, has made John Robinson into a great TV dad. For the first time (that I can remember) we learned something about Judy's biological father, an astronaut who passed away very early in her life. There are then several flashbacks showing John supporting her at various points in her youth. Juxtaposed with the (admittedly unlikely) threat to John's life, it was all quite moving. Particularly Judy's emotional speech to keep him fighting.
Ben (who increasingly is looking like turning out to be a villain) travels with Maureen and Will to try and find O.G Robot. Whilst Penny recruits her love interest Vijay to try and bring down Dr Smith before another game changing twist at the end.
Another decent, if as others have pointed out somewhat derivative, episode for a show that's found its feet at last.
