Bright finds his personal life in disarray after his sister's shocking actions; he must take care of her and protect his mother from a secret that could tear the family apart all over again;... Read allBright finds his personal life in disarray after his sister's shocking actions; he must take care of her and protect his mother from a secret that could tear the family apart all over again; Malcolm must find a killer.Bright finds his personal life in disarray after his sister's shocking actions; he must take care of her and protect his mother from a secret that could tear the family apart all over again; Malcolm must find a killer.
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- TriviaAt the end where Malcolm is talking to his father if you listen carefully you can hear a slow darker version of Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult.
- GoofsThat isn't how nail guns work. In the 'sex dungeon' scene Malcolm threatens Boyd by firing a framing nail into the wood next to Boyd's head, from 6 feet away. All nail guns, pneumatic or electric, have built-in plate safety features, to prevent this very thing from happening. The firing mechanism must be pressed firmly against a surface, which disengages the safety, before the nail can be fired. Nail guns cannot simply be fired like a dart-spitting revolver.
- Quotes
Malcolm Bright: [answering his phone, while holding the Penthouse Slasher off the edge of a building ledge] Hey. Kind of busy.
Dr. Martin Whitly: My boy! Oh! It's-it's your father. I have, uh, I have sensational news!
Malcolm Bright: Please say it's cancer.
Dr. Martin Whitly: I'm heading home! Wait, what did you say?
Malcolm Bright: What do you mean, "home"?
Dr. Martin Whitly: Well, well not, not home, home. They're transferring me back to Claremont.
Malcolm Bright: Why?
Dr. Martin Whitly: Well, I did single-handedly prevent Covid from ravaging the most over populated prison on the East Coast. 'Course, contact tracing is a breeze when your patients don't have rights.
The Black Lives Matter movement was mentioned. How could anyone - from any political stance - expect the show not to? Prodigal Son has two main characters who are cops, played by Aurora Perrineau and Frank Harts. Both actors are people of color. Perrineau was targeted on social media for being a woman of color playing a cop. By including support for the BLM movement, the show wasn't taking a political stance, and in fact, mentioned on several occasions that they support cops. In season one, they had their white male protagonist say that he has "nothing but respect for the badge and those who wear it." I don't believe this was intended to be political either. But a show that centers around the NYPD is going to support cops, to some degree at least. It's the same thing with BLM. It's not about politics, it's about supporting two of their leading actors and acknowledging societal issues that they would be delusional not to address. Because the show has two cops played by people of color (a choice that I think is excellent, not to mention that the actors are phenomenal) it puts this show in the center of a key societal issue. This show acknowledges their respect for law enforcement, while also supporting people of color. It's a great balance.
That being said, nothing extreme happened. Nothing BLM related happened that hasn't happened in real life. So I really don't understand the people giving this episode a one star rating because of it.
I agree that this isn't the best episode of Prodigal Son, and I'd be concerned if it was. Because no season starter should be better than a season finale for ANY show. This was a pretty good episode overall. It was VERY good for a season starter.
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