This show continues to get darker and darker. I still wish we had some more subplots and not just Chance's efforts to take down a sick individual, but the writing does seem more focused than in season one. Not sure what the water stunt really accomplished, but it did get the killer out of his comfort zone, which should make him snap even more soon.
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The Circle Tightens but Winter is Still a Huge Threat
Hitchcoc25 May 2019
There are several elements that are fascinating in this episode. First, Chance tries to reason with the parents of the girl with the broken nose. We get to see that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. He is furious that D decided to give his daughter advice on how to handle bullies. This leads to some serious conflict at the end of the episode. Chance decides to take Winter swimming in a cove and allows him to nearly drown. There are some interesting psychological things involved in his method. But the last scene brings up scary possibilities.
Everyone Gets a Time-Out *SPOILERS*
hilaryjrp18 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW "The Coping Mechanism" is a breather in "Chance." Some of the most beautiful camera-work you'll see this t.v. season occurs when Chance uses his newfound knowledge of Winter's obsessions and fears, and takes him swimming in the ocean. There are extended sequences between D and Lorena, and D and Carl, when Carl's estranged son Alvin comes to the antiques shop with bad news. We also see Chance visiting Nicole's bully in her hospital bed, and then at the bully's home some time later, to try to reason with the parents about pressing charges against his daughter. Chance and Nicole have some heart-to-heart moments. Although Winter's "at-home" scene with Lyndsay ends more brutally, the segments between Chance and the bully's parents—mother and father—are tough to watch. In terms of let-up in this season's action, much is made, by Kristen and Lucy, of Winter's donation of $1M and an entire new computer system to the clinic. Lucy bumps into Winter at a coffee shop and strikes up an acquaintance. Finally, there's a long scene where Chance visits Ms. Debbs at her nursing home/psychiatric facility and hears her insane story about why she did what she did at the train station many years earlier.
The episode develops D's softer side, and there's a painful moment when Chance, learning from Nicole how she embarked on her life of vengeance because of D's "wisdom," speaks too frankly to D. He goes to the antiques shop to confront D about encouraging Nicole to act out her rage against the bully, and D starts in on one of his dark sermons that makes D kind of a huge Yoda. Chance snaps and asks him what he knows about parenting. This is cold, because earlier, we see D follow Lorena to a supermarket and try to win her over by suggesting vitamin supplements for her pregnancy, and we get the feeling that D might never have even dated, let alone been a parent. Things get worse when Chance shuts him and his eclectic, dark religion down by shouting that he (Chance) doesn't want Nicole to do the things D preaches or be what D is. He flies out of the place, and D just says, You're Welcome, Doc.
The extended ocean sequence with Winter dominates the episode. "The Coping Mechanism" is narrative filler, but it's interesting or at least very beautifully framed and painstakingly shot.
The episode develops D's softer side, and there's a painful moment when Chance, learning from Nicole how she embarked on her life of vengeance because of D's "wisdom," speaks too frankly to D. He goes to the antiques shop to confront D about encouraging Nicole to act out her rage against the bully, and D starts in on one of his dark sermons that makes D kind of a huge Yoda. Chance snaps and asks him what he knows about parenting. This is cold, because earlier, we see D follow Lorena to a supermarket and try to win her over by suggesting vitamin supplements for her pregnancy, and we get the feeling that D might never have even dated, let alone been a parent. Things get worse when Chance shuts him and his eclectic, dark religion down by shouting that he (Chance) doesn't want Nicole to do the things D preaches or be what D is. He flies out of the place, and D just says, You're Welcome, Doc.
The extended ocean sequence with Winter dominates the episode. "The Coping Mechanism" is narrative filler, but it's interesting or at least very beautifully framed and painstakingly shot.
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