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<br /><b><i>Episode 9 The Counterfeiters</i></b><br />
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Episode 9 picks up with the ramifications of Dina leaving the Foxes and the island; Alfonso breaks the news to a pissed off Allie; who advises Charlie to keep the news about Dina leaving a secret – surely a mistake; as if there isn’t enough secrets kept on this show. It’s been clear from the get-go that Allie is who he always is – stubborn and aloof, deep in paranoia.<br />
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One of the biggest struggles of <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> so far has been to get you invested in its characters and this show feels like it’s still; two seasons and sixteen, now seventeen episodes in – struggling to make you care about the characters. Dina’s awakening to the real world is a ruthless one – getting cat-called by pigs in cars; and does her best to wonder about what to buy in shops – the sense of wonder that comes with the freedom of choice for the first time. Her encounter comes with an American, obsessed with posting on social media – to her; her followers probably think she’s dead. Dina pretends not to speak English – and the montage of her on her bike is the happiest she’s been in a while; taking the time to relax and enjoy life.
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Margot and Richard want in on their mission, with Margot realising that what they do will set a template and lay it out for those freedom fighters everywhere the world is on fire. It’s calling back to the past, old stories – it’s interesting to note that the similarities between two completely unrelated shows this season; both AppleTV+ series, <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> and<i> Slow Horses</i> have both pulled up the past connections as key source materials; giving Richard and Margot a shared bond over what’s to come. Margot however has a tougher choice – to convince Charlie to come back to the States with him, running away from Allie – leaving Charlie keeping secrets from both Margot and Allie. As things stand, Charlie wants to utilise Allie’s plan – and is reluctant to tell Margot that Dina has ran. Margot agrees to be a spotter for Richard however; but she’s working with the NSA to gain protection for her kids. Everyone is playing everyone in <i>The Mosquito Coast</i>, and the stakes are coming together.
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Dina’s sense of awakening into a modern hotel spa resort comes a little sense of cunning and deception – it’s an interesting place for her to run to on her own. Meanwhile – Allie has a Plan B that threatens to put them all in danger – to create a dead man’s switch for Sandpiper. He’s called out by Isela, who accuses him of wanting to become a new landlord – but before the confrontation can escalate; Bautista’s men arrive, demanding to Allie. Isela does her best to stall them – and Charlie intervenes, with a soldier taking the life of a villager who saved him just as Allie shows himself to be taken away. It’s a frantic, action-packed moment with the show relying, maybe a bit too much, on Charlie’s naivety.
Dina is the smarter Fox child of the two in this week’s episode, pigeoning off the back of a family to steal a card from a worker – she gets to experience all the joys of the resort, beautifully shot for with a wonderful montage – showcasing that the best moments of <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> come in these close encounters – even if the shower scene is a bit too stereotypical of a homage – wiping the blood clean of the past. Refreshed and recharged; this is her new life now – an outsider who doesn’t truly fit in.
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Unfortunately, not everything is going swimmingly for the Foxes. The sheer contrast in music is basic scene changing 101; but the transition to Bautista’s bar showcases the trouble that Allie is in – he was given 72 hours to get Sandpiper up and running; but only needed 24 to make it. In the meantime - He found Bautista’s skimming operation – taking the transport shipments for cartels. It’s enough to put Bautista on the back foot – but Allie has proof of Bautista’s meddling as a traitor. His documents in the cloud – and will go live if not checked in every few hours. It’s a desperate bid for Allie to gain some salvation and a refuge – a place of his own.
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Whilst Dina’s good at infiltrating; she’s not too good at picking up social cues – an influencer (they’re all influencer’s here) takes a photo of her t-shirt in a bid to look out for it. The ever-present influence of cameras in the society of today has been a theme running throughout <i>The Mosquito Coast</i>, with Dina and the audience keenly aware of how they’re being used.
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Meanwhile, Margot has the agreement for the immunity from the NSA, which is what she wants – she gives him Richard’s plan – it’s tomorrow, at 1 o’clock, sending them into panic mode. Richard tells her that nobody will get hurt, but she doesn’t believe him – and warns the NSA to do everything above board; but lets them off their leash.
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Bautista and Richard are both working together – Richard could do with two more men on the outside to keep track of who’s coming in and out. It’s an interesting dynamic between both – I’m not sure how aware Richard is of Bautista’s side hustle; ever the idealist he’s committed to his cause.
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Charlie has felt the loss of everything around him hard – cooling down by being submerged in leaves; both him and Dina are clearly not okay – the actions of their parents wearing heavy on them. Dina thinks she’s out; but their influence is clear – the award for the worst parents of the last few years of television probably both goes down to the Foxes, really. In any other show you could easily have it painted to look like Charlie and Dina wanting to get out from under them as wanting to escape from the villains; but <i>The Mosquito Coast</i>’s choice to make Bautista the very clear external threat with Richard and William Lee almost makes them seem like the less bad option in comparison. This show hasn’t quite got into how controlling both are yet in enough depth, although it’s touched on the surface.
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I do think the biggest mistake of this series was not keeping the same tight episode count as the excellent first one; where all this goodwill for the show has come from. The three extra episodes has hurt the pacing of <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> even if at the same time it’s allowed it time to breath – a tighter seven episodes kept it watchable: but now – everything’s coming together marvellously.
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Margot fills Allie in on the loop of the plan that she’s worked out for them by betraying Richard – and feels like shit for doing so – she’s never felt more conflicted betraying a cause she cares deeply about. But Allie isn’t talking; although both parents share a quiet knowledge that they screwed up with Dina – Margot smart enough to make out that she’s done a runner on her own. The show doesn’t really waste time with stopping to talk down to the audience; and it’s a real blessing.
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Richard’s plan being put in motion is an excellent one – and Metin Hüseyin’s direction throughout the episode; really delivers at making everything around look and feel real and lived in. The little touches with Dina wondering around the resort and embracing it; taking it in are a lot more cleanly edited than what’s come before in this show; and the sprawling Fox saga is tighter packed than it has been previously. If there was ever a time for<i> The Mosquito Coast</i> to find its form – it’s now.
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Allie and Charlie have a heart to heart on Slyvia’s death – and the process of grief is felt here with Dina gone too. This series has been a wake-up call for Charlie – his illusion that Allie knew everything has been exposed as a lie. He’s losing everything – watching his home that he knew torn down around him.
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Richard’s infiltration of the compound begins – but it’s quickly been revealed as a ruse – he’s not in the van and suspected a double cross from Margot – and he’s watching them from afar. This was a loyalty test – which Margot failed. And now her family are alone; but to make matters worse – Dina, texting over the phone – to add to more secrets – is texting Adolfo – not realising that Charlie and Allie are at the other end of the line. Just when you think you start to care about these characters; <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> does a brilliant job at reminding you as to what absolute shitheads they are.
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And now Richard is at the target – the true target – the one being held from Margot. It’s Dina’s resort – bringing the pieces together for a finale with everything on edge – the stakes at their highest. We’re in the endgame now, really.
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<b><i>Episode 10, Eulogy</i></b>
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And here we are; at the end of <i>The Mosquito Coast</i>. Having Richard come out on top and trick Margot was a big surprise going into the end of episode 9; and now everyone knows where they stand – or everyone should – the funeral of Slyvia, a cold blooded, narcissistic murder; opens the episode – the show being more comfortable with using music as it progresses and it does so quite well here – the slow procession of the funeral march evident from the word go. Isela’s speech is moving and effective – the fate of the town being caught between a rock and a hard place puts Isela in a difficult position; and <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> has never been more apparent with its actions.
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Charlie and Allie fill Margot in on the plan to rescue Dina; and they’ve found her at the resort that Richard’s planning to blow up. Allie is using Sandpiper for precisely what the artificial intelligence’s dangers were – tracking phones at will. Dina’s not hard to spot – waiting at the sofa for Allie. It’s a pretty good reunion between Allie and Dina; just before things are about to hit the fan with Richard and his convoy. People not being hurt was a massive lie – and everyone in the resort is at risk from a plan that has long been in motion.
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Dina realises that she’s got the upper hand here and wants to say her truths to Allie: there’s a life for her at the resort – but not one that she wants; and not one that either her parents want for her. Instead, she wants to go home – and she doesn’t mean their safe haven – but they don’t have one. A family yes, a home no. The Foxes have been on the run for so long that they’ve forgotten what a home is – but it’s a good motivational drive for Dina this season. Allie is – after comments in episode nine about him not learning, finally taking his children’s feedback on board; he tells her that he doesn’t, truthfully have a plan – choosing not to go for the teachable moments that have defined his character. Being this close to losing both Charlie and Dina has given him a sense of perspective. Instead, he turns the tables to Dina: what does she want to do? This season has been about the Fox siblings getting more power of their own and coming out from the shadow of both parents; and whatever Dina decides to do – Allie will support it. The door’s wide open on both accounts – to come back or to talk.
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As the episode progresses you’re begging the Foxes just to leave the resort, knowing what Richard’s got planned; but Allie has other ideas – he wants to tell the whole Fox family in person. It’s an emotional reunion of a different sort between Dina and Margot this episode; more quiet and subdued – Margot tells her of her plan to get them back to the States; but of course it backfired – and now she has nothing to offer Dina. Dina has both parents in the palm of her hands – and whilst Margot wants to turn herself in, Dina has other ideas – she needed Margot than she thought she did. There’s guilt on both sides here - Dina for running away unprepared; and Margot’s weight of watching one of her children strike out on her own.
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Allie’s idea is still to stick with the plot of land to call the Foxes their own and take it from Bautista with his blackmail material. To him – it’s an achievable paradise; but there’s nothing there for Dina. Not yet – tells Allie. The Foxes build it – and he wants to build the whole operation down there with him.
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No Landlords, no cartels – heaven. It’s what the Foxes have been striving towards this entire time and what the main objective of this series has been about; and you get the sense that <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> is well into series finale mode here; even as early as 15 minutes in. Charlie’s in, of course – but Margot wants to go back to the States – home, wherever they make it – and they must decide today – the parents finally getting the chance to act out their confrontation that has been brewing all season long – Allie spinning it back on her telling her that Margot would be locked up for terrorism, murder; Dina for trouble – and Charlie is a killer too – the Foxes no longer have a way out. Allie is no better off than all of them – he sold out, only to regret it just wanting out of the entire United States altogether – none of the Foxes have a clean past – the weight of their actions over the past two seasons has caught up with them - and back within seconds, it’s all been about Margot and Allie – they’re doing the same things that they always do, making decisions for all of them – they’re both powerless under the whims of their parents. All Allie’s goodwill speech to Dina before; undone in a matter of seconds – the outburst from Charlie coming just when it needed to. He’s got a point: if they’re raising them to be independent – at what point do they get a say in how things are run? Charlie calls out Margot for lying to them too – he’s holding back nothing – and how does a lie last that long?
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All he wants is the truth. And the whole series has been built on a house of cards; lies and mistakes – and <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> now, finally – has them all crashing down around everyone. I will praise Melissa George’s acting here, terrific – and Gabriel Bateman too, all of the Foxes have improved dramatically. The family gets a chance to talk to each other separately – Dina only knows how to live off the grid; adjusting back to Margot’s optimistic idea of a society would be too hard. And then that’s when it happens – Charlie sees Richard – leaving the resort; the penny drops – and both Fox siblings tail him.
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We get to see the Bautista’s business meeting take place at the heart of the resort with Margot watching on, realising what’s taking place slowly around her as the penny drops. Margot tells Allie who she saw whilst Charlie and Dina tail Richard; Margot still doesn’t know that he’s here yet. They want to get the kids and get out – but the kids are not where they left them. Charlie’s been getting the entire family into trouble the entire season – and now his actions alone have kickstarted the endgame here.
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Richard lets us in on the plan to target the hotel meeting – and Margot and Allie instantly spot one of Bautista’s men posing as a hotel guard with a suspicious briefcase – the same person who killed Slyvia. Margot has her own secrets to share: Bautista’s men work with Richard; with the pieces coming together and the Foxes can’t help but be involved. And now multiple men with guns dressed in hotel uniform are storming the hotel; about to interrupt the briefing on the third floor. Bautista is making a power grab – on his own sister.
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Charlie calls out Richard as soon as he returns – he’s a liar and hypocrite as much as his family is. Dina watches as he’s dragged out onto the rooftop, and Margot frantically tries to call in for government support – but after the false flag, they’re not answering. The Foxes have to do whatever they’re about to do on their own. Charlie is called into the room and held hostage whilst Carter is confronted angrily by Richard – accusing him of committing crimes against humanity and nature. It’s a powerful performance by Ariyon Bakare – accusing Carter of being no better than a murder. And this is where we wonder: are Richard and Bautista’s goals aligned? Or are they just working together to their own interests?
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Richard puts Carter on a worldwide jury of tens of thousand followers – it’s being livestreamed to around the world. Alarm bells are triggered and all guests have to return to their rooms – as Bautista and William Lee arrive in the building. For now they’re on the same page, and Carter gets to “admit his guilt” – until he gets to a certain point; asking that justice be done that matches the crime.
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And here come the Foxes – but before they can intervene, the National Guard show up – and are storming the building. Richard wants out; but Bautista wants Andrea to suffer first. Talk about sibling rivalry – <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> has kept these characters in the background for so long; it’s not only the Foxes that have their secret exposed this time out. Margot knows Richard; he knows where his devices will be – and she agrees to go off on her own whilst Allie and Dina do their best to rescue Charlie and Andrea pleads to the livestream for rescue.
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It wasn’t long before Richard and Bautista come face to face – Richard hands over the detonator to Bautista; but is killed the second he tries to get Charlie to leave with him. I loved the little reaction shot of watching Allie open and close the door as chaos is unleashed in the room; explosives going off everywhere and Allie races to his son’s rescue; with him taking the bag on his way out. It was a confusing set of sequences with slow motion and the loud ringing sound that’s always used at the core of <i>The Mosquito Coast</i>, and for its big centrepiece action the camera feels weirdly disorientated with its previous mostly on point direction – resorting to shaky action sequences that feel smaller than ever.
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However, there’s still one person waiting whose fate is left unresolved – William Lee – who shoots Allie as he tries to run, coldly and with little time to waste. It’s a rather rushed few moments that finally speeds up the pace as it progresses – his death will be a slow one; William Lee promises. Justin Theroux’s acting betrays his characters’ emotions – Allie knows what’s coming, and detonates the bomb – taking out Lee in the process but leaving his fate obscured. We’re led to believe that he got caught up in the blast – but there’s no body yet.
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And thus ends<i> The Mosquito Coast</i> – with Isela bringing her community with her to a new location; the Foxes moving on. It’s sort of an ending that works for the show itself and wraps up the story with the search of an actual Mosquito Coast – but the slow pace may not have been the most successful way to tell the story of them all. The montage to end things on was a pretty touching tribute – and maybe, Allie really is dead after all?
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I’m glad I stuck with the series; but don’t expect it to be on any best tv list any time soon. It accomplishes its goal, looked good doing so – and whilst in a world of television, say five years ago; it would’ve been one of the most talked about things around – here it barely arrives with a whimper. But if only every show that barely arrived with a whimper looked this good. <br />
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<br /><b><i>Episode 7, The Burning of Judas</i></b><br />
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The aim of the rest of the season is now established, can the Foxes betray Richard to the National Security Agency, Raban, and the Government in exchange for safety? It’s certainly an interesting prospect – they have a direct threat to their own wellbeing. Margot believes that she’s going to start working on Richard, but Allie is less than keen. In an effort to creating some more symbolism we get a vigil for the Burning of Judas – Christ’s betrayer – that keeps Charlie awake at night. And now they wait – for Christ’s resurrection. The show has been quite blunt with symbolism – and just to evident that; Allie’s bluntness about not being able to trust the government feels like a warning that defines his character a mile away.<br />
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Marisol Adler’s direction for this episode is crisp and slick, very beneficial of the budget that <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> has like all of its Apple originals – the director’s work on shows like The Cleaning Lady and Power Book II puts her right at home here. I can’t help but wonder if the show wasn’t in its second season already whether this season would have been enough to renew it to a second; but it certainly feels like such a comedown after the first it’s almost hard to talk about the same things seven episodes in. <br />
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No matter where you go there’s always a landlord – Allie must work to pay the rent. Now, Dina is a bit less harsh on Allie as she knows it wasn’t entirely his fault – and wants to apologise for blaming him – if it’s not the apology that Allie was entirely expecting. It’s a chance for Dina to come clean, she doesn’t hate either of them – but it makes sense, she says – as to why both are incredibly fucked up. Both are fucking things up for Dina and Charlie; for the family – that they love them, but never once acting like it. I was cheering for Dina in this moment – finally getting to come to terms with her toxic parents. She doesn’t respect them; and now she’s lost respect for Margot too. Dina wants out and wants to leave today – with Allie perfectly fine to let her go, but the door locks behind her. This is a terrifying performance by Justin Theroux here, a reminder of just how scary Allie can be – to Dina, he’s a bully – and she’s right – the show has been deliberately obscuring a grander villain here, because Allie and Margot might as well be them. They certainly win the award for the most toxic on-screen parents of 2022.<br />
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The Burning of Judas is a sombre and beautifully portrayed procession – handled all too briefly to let the show sink in. <i>The Mosquito Coast</i>’s best ideals are its location – and it helps give the show a sense of identity and real purpose that makes you aware of its surroundings.<br />
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Richard and Margot have a heart to heart about Charlie; Richard’s worried about him and his usage of the gun. It scared him – we all saw how scared he was in the episode before that. It’s enough to make Margot worried about Charlie. Margot’s strategy of working Richard is asking what Richard wants and why he’s here – very direct – but Margot’s always been such. Isela brought him here to do something for someone important; but that’s a cover story.<br />
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Meanwhile, Allie and William Lee take the motorboat out to the woods and the car; off on another adventure at the same time as Richard and Margot – can’t be a coincidence, right? The beautiful exotic locations of the beaches are evident and clear, but <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> cuts away from them too quickly – let the show bask in the moment.<br />
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Charlie and Dina get torn between the two worlds – Dina wants to leave, but Charlie has gone native and really wants to stay; he’s at home with the natives. It’s Dina’s turn to have some agency and be mad for a change – but she’s deliberating – does she want to leave Charlie behind, who’s clearly a lot happier here? He’s not to blame the same way Margot and Allie have been. Dina’s got to get her head around a lot this season, her own arc being pushed to the forefront the way Charlie’s was the first time out gives both characters a sense of purpose this time out. Adolfo gets the chance to reveal more about his parents to Dina to figure things out – his dad shot himself when he was 8, and as a result, clearly Allie and Margot deserve second chances. It’s a reminder of the relative privilege that Charlie and Dina have.<br />
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Daniel Raymont’s Guillermo brings Allie and William Lee under one roof. He wants them to make the police interference go away so he can conduct his business, recruiting Caleb – an MIT graduate who’s a fan of Allie’s past work processing the data for his arrival. They want Allie’s algorithm, sandpiper – to predict and analyse the movement of law enforcement. But at what cost? Allie doesn’t wand sandpiper to be taken from him – he won’t work with Caleb, nobody else. This is his baby. Guillermo’s decision is to let Caleb go; cold and brutally.<br />
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The past is coming back to haunt not just Allie in this episode, but Margot too – she’s also faced with a reunion with Richard. Their direction takes them to a destruction of land in the middle of the destruction of land by excessive corporate greed – diggers tearing apart the world. They stopped genetically modified material from entering the food chain at the company that they destroyed when they attacked the company in the past; and now they have bigger targets in play – recognising with the guilt of their actions is just part of that. Their target is Andrea Bautista, Guillermo’s sister, who’s hoping to sell the land to Carter. This puts – as predicted – William Lee, Allie Fox on one team, Richard and Margot on the other – and a path for the future of the series has never become clearer. History is about to repeat itself – with Allie a 72-hour deadline to get sandpiper online. <br />
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Back in the village, a bell – and a warning is rung. The family’s land includes Isela’s village, and one-by-one the mercenaries arrive. They take what they want from Guillermo, because everyone’s got a landlord – no matter how remote you are. And this is the price they must pay for safety – Isela giving a speech of protection at the cost of being a Judas with the burning of it in the background demonstrating just how good, once again – the cinematography has been this season. The landscape establishing shots too, equally terrific – a real sense of wonder and Blue Planet to them all. Could be a David Attenborough doc; almost. <br />
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I really like how things are coming together now. I was a bit less keen at the start of the episode; but the stakes are wrapped up highly enough now that the tension is there and all the dilemmas that the characters established in the first half are coming together nicely. The slower paced storyline seems to be working in <i>The Mosquito Coast</i>’s favour; but also – never has there been a better advert for binge-watching as opposed to the weekly schedule. It feels like this is one of those rare AppleTV+ originals where a season drop would’ve helped, not hurt it. <br />
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<b><i>Episode 8, Dead Totems</i></b><br />
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Episode 8 takes time to explore the relationship between Dina and Adolfo whilst Margot’s plan for full immunity is getting increasingly desperate by the hour. One of the main obstacles about their return to society is that Charlie will want to stay; and Margot’s insistent that he needs to be told that he’s going back – but either way, Raban isn’t listening. Richard on his own won’t be enough. <br />
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Allie’s destruction of security cameras and traps around the village gives them a bit of privacy. He knows that Bautista will not stop at just getting Allie to do Sandpiper, and he’s forced to embrace the evil that he created to put a stop to it. <br />
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We learn a bit more about Richard and his son, whose mother lives in Bristol. He did everything that his mother wants to do but to him, it felt self-congratulatory, performative. To Richard, he looks at Margot and sees that she’s lucky, able to maintain a status of militancy and some sort of a family: but yesterday, Margot was reminded by Richard that she used to care, back in the day. They’re a world removed from the idealistic academic that she used to be, and it’s a fond memory of both adults sharing their less experienced days. Richard warns Margot off, he doesn’t want her to get involved.<br />
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Once again, I’m running out of superlatives for the visuals in <i>The Mosquito Coast</i>. The sweeping scenic shots of Allie walking alongside the lake are spectacular. In contrast to Allie, Dina wants a normal life – to live with a family in a suburban utopia, everything her dad has warned her to be. Adolfo and Dina have differences of opinion too, Adolfo’s religious nature puts him at odds with Dina’s atheism – doesn’t it get lonely, he asks? The theological touch of <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> is brought into play with these two characters here – as Adolfo shows her the natural beauty of the village and its celebrations of everyday life: of happiness – the dancing allows Dina to experience a sense of normality that’s a halfway house between that of the nightmarish American suburbia and that of her father’s frugalness – under the beautiful heat of the sun.<br />
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Charlie and Allie unite but William Lee is fed up with Allie waiting, and calls Bautista. To Allie, Sandpiper is something that finds order in what thinks is chaos – patterns in disorganisation. It can be equipped to find anything – order and chaos. Sandpiper’s algorithm to predict the future is countered by Charlie’s optimism that chance could happen, but even to Allie – data is everything; using an example of a bird that he could predict its movements, even to save it from dying. Allie using evidence to gain about Bautista, slowly but surely putting a case together to gain advantage so that they can get to somewhere safer but whilst this is happening it’s good to see Allie and Charlie debate the morality of artificial intelligence here. They’re in great form – and the show raises some important, good questions that need to be answered. <br />
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Whilst Allie is gathering evidence about Bautista, Margot is gathering evidence of Richard’s own plot – and confronts him about it openly, with the show not wasting any time in having her call out Richard – who wants her to run away with him. Whatever Richard’s doing it’s big, he doesn’t want to drag anyone else in, and he wants to keep Margot out of it. But now she has the passport, a way out – and a new life – but she wants all in, as Richard’s partner, or all out. This show, much of the middle half of the season – has been pushing its characters in separate directions – Charlie staying behind, Dina embracing normal life, Allie being Allie and Margot threatening to run away at any given turn now has a real shot at doing so. Will any of the Foxes be even in the same country at the end of the season, if they make it out alive?<br />
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Allie and Richard meanwhile get a heart to heart about Richard and the usage of Charlie’s gun – and it’s a devastating moment. Richard fucked up the Foxes’ lives, so Charlie thinks that they have every right to hurt them – but Allie disagrees. To Charlie, he gets so angry, scared – not sure what’s going on anymore. Richard was a convenient vehicle for that outlet – less so about him being there, but more about Charlie, who is justifiably angry that Allie didn’t call him out sooner about shooting someone. To Allie there’s a difference, right and wrong isn’t clear cut. The messages themselves are coming thick and fast this season – but <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> seems to be pulling them off effectively – and really setting it up for a strong note. <br />
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Trouble in paradise is slowly – as it always is on this show, reaching its apex – and with a couple of episodes left to go, the stakes are well and truly raised – I do think the editing could have spaced out the three different storylines a bit better as it keeps feeling like they are each yanked out from us as they’re properly starting – Dina’s departure to leave is thwarted by an Adolfo who wants to help her – but it’s Charlie that finds the letter explaining her exit. <br />
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Episode 6 of <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> upped the momentum a bit by having us move towards a direction that we probably saw coming: with Richard back in the picture, Margot now wants to flip him to the feds – but the problem is, they’re onto Allie – having overheard him at the conference, which he, surprise surprise, was able to escape with William Lee after a frantic series of sequences that made the most of AppleTV+’s budget, but the show feels entirely redundant now – like it’s spinning in circles. That said – this episode helped right a few wrongs, pushing us on a course to the endgame – we get reminded of where Margot and Allie stand, Allie desperately wants to cling onto this little utopia of his that he has together, whilst Margot wants a life for herself. <br />
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The kids are still grappling with the knowledge that Margot lied to them and ever the source of drama this season, Charlie, believes after being told by Dina that take Richard away, and his mother will be okay – not realising that Margot may just be as ruthless as Allie and can have her own agenda. He pulls a gun on Richard and almost shoots him, but it blanks – and Richard gets the upper hand, taking the gun and leaving Charlie behind after a reminder that people are naturally good, so they make their enemies worse than they intend to be – Ariyon Bakare did a fantastic job at selling how scared he was of Charlie with the gun pointed on him – Charlie has killed before, and one of the big questions of season 2 so far has been: can he do it again, and what does that make him now? Gabriel Bateman does a solid job at grappling with the material that he’s been given. <br />
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Isela reveals to Allie that she’s still team Allie, but she’s playing both sides – she has to work with Lee’s people sometimes to get what they want. Having the pair work together ticked the sequel trope of having bad guys work with the good guys to fight a greater evil, and clearly, something greater is coming – but <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> is unsure it wants to tell us what it is yet. It’s got itself – as ever, playing its cards close to its chest, just as much it took the criticism of not giving the audience too much about the first series to heart. <br />
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One more thing I will say about this episode is that; if you want to use <i>Coconut</i> by Harry Nilsen, you'd better know you're as good as Tarantino - and I don't think this show's quite there yet. It's setting the stage nicely: Margot is double crossing at least one of Richard and Allie, trying to find out what Richard is really planning - and even in this community, they still answer to a landlord. Presumably Allie's goal will be to change that, and keep ahold of what he has. But at what cost? <br />
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<br /> We’re at the halfway mark in <i>The Mosquito Coast</i>’s second series and the show is ramping up now. There’s been a lot of groundwork being laid in the first few episodes but now, everything’s coming to a head for the back half, the family once again separated from each other, dealing with the consequences of the past – and Charlie now – only now – has to deal with the consequences of his actions from the first season. Better later than never, right? <br />
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It’s a big episode for Margot this time out. Forced to reconcile with her past and her actions that she committed when we get a return from an old friend, Richard – Margot’s ex. This episode seemed content to tick contrivance after contrivance and hit all the marks that we’ve come to expect from a series like this – from a show that gave us no answers last season and kept things in suspense, <i>Positive, Front-Facing Optics</i> now feels like it’s part of a show that wasn’t expecting to be renewed for a second series. The eco-terrorist group must be quite small because Richard is the one that they need – he has an unexplained connection with Isela. This could be used as a way to propel the storyline forward but instead; Dina finds out about Margot’s past through eavesdropping and Margot not telling secrets. It’s a show that has employed more sensible storytelling devices in the past, but here – this feels like a completely different series this time out – no longer obsessed with what made it work the first time out. The Foxes were best on the run. Now… what gives us a reason to care about them? Forced family drama? The Mosquito Coast hasn’t stopped to figure that out yet. It does allow Dina to call out Margot, who’s just as bad as Allie in the show’s eyes – but Allie isn’t helping matters this season. The show does need to figure out a reason for us to actually care about these characters when they’re not on the run – and it isn’t doing that yet. But the prospect of a Richard vs. Allie encounter may give the show a reason too look forward to its back half, because you know it’s coming. I like the eco-terrorist approach and it's an effective reason to raise the stakes, but I'm interested to see how this show fairs now in comparison to the likes of AppleTV+'s newer series <i>Echo 3</i>, which feels like it's been put out to pasture against when you compare the level of marketing. Ask anyone whether the second series of this show has come back... would they have been able to tell you? <br />
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It's because he’s paired up with William Lee for a mission of his own, the series treading into eco-terrorist global waters. Allie’s lucky that Margot doesn’t want to run without supplies – but Dina is more keen than ever to escape throwing caution to the wind. But William Lee gives the series the best sense of threat and danger that it’s had so far – and teaming up him with Allie feels like an odd direction for it to go in; but it’s a welcome one all the same – if it leads to this episode feeling like it ended just as it was getting started. The lead-up to the infiltration of the meeting and the fact that Allie is trapped with people who may be able to spot him out of a line-up would create a source of tension, but Allie is the main character – he’s probably the most likely to survive. The show would surprise me if he died with four episodes left – but that’s not going to happen, so the result feels like a throwback to the NBC or CBS midseason style cliffhangers that were designed to keep you on tenderhooks for a month or so over the winter break. Just in reality there wasn’t really any here.<br />
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One thing that is alarming about this season of The Mosquito Coast is that it its episode count is quite long, and it’s early to tell but when you have to raise the question – is it a filler episode? – already – things are potentially wrong. But when filler episodes, if this is one – is as good as this mini struggle of survival that picks up with the Foxes in jeopardy on their boat in the middle of the unknown, you need rest easy as you’re in safe hands from director Stefan Schwartz and writer Ian Scott McCullough.<br />
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The episode allows for some family bonding time – Allie teaches Dina to drive the boat – after the revelations that came in the previous episode; this feels like a testament to the resilience of family – they’re forced into trouble when their boat loses gas and gives in after a struggle with rapids, thunder and lightning – all reinforced by a score by Antonio Pinto, who’s just superb creatively. This puts the Foxes in a whole world of trouble, and there’s only a few hours before the water rises.<br />
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Chekov’s crocodile takes Allie out of action after he tries to avoid it; not only is the tree he tied the rope to not strong enough to hold the boat together but it’s also the fact that he’s suffering from a major bite. This leaves Margot and Charlie pairing up as this week’s dynamic between the family – and the two have a heart to heart with both characters being responsible for the death of someone who they barely know – Charlie last season, and Margot technically this season but the flashbacks that incited the whole thing. Both have guilt on their shoulders, massively.<br />
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Following the source of smoke to a settlement riddled with bullet holes and a turned off electric fence, you start to get the feeling that something’s wrong – especially with dried blood inside. It’s not enough to deter Margot and Charlie, who keep going – and find some medicine. A warning of things to come, for sure – there are darker things at work that the Foxes are about to stumble into.<br />
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The other dynamic between Allie and Dina was explored effectively and the family are able to restore the boat and put it back on the water again. It’s a split up of the family and puts them in separate headspaces to allow them to deal with the revelations of last week and acts as a breather that gives Allie a rest of sorts, for the first time since he’s been on the run. I do think a greater sense of urgency was the only thing missing from this episode though – there could have been more done with the crocodile but I like the Jaws-esque decision to keep it hidden and create that nature of suspense. <br />
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<b><i>Episode 3, Talk About the Weather</i></b><br />
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And the award for worst parents of the year go to Allie and Margot. This feels like what we’ve seen the show do before – introduce the characters to a community that welcomes them and takes them in, but there’s more to that community than meets the eye. It’s the repetitive cycle that The Mosquito Coast has used as a storytelling device and at least Talk About the Weather anchors the Foxes to one place that has enough substance to keep them there.<br />
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The language is the main obstacle and the villagers aren’t happy to see them there – Isela, remember her? Is able to get the Foxes into their good books by showing them that the village is a working community and they need to work, which fits in with Allie’s workhorse driven agenda and clashes with Margot’s increasingly desperate need to get the group back into the society that they left behind. Allie’s defence is to argue that they should see things from the villagers’ perspective – and two weeks later, he’s proven right – the family make it their home within the confines of the language barrier.<br />
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Charlie’s been exploring the jungle on his own and can’t really be spotted doing this, as he’s warned by Isela. It creates a predictable conflict that you know where this storyline is leading, especially given his newly developed connection with nature and the flock of butterflies that are breeding – eventually fitting in with the villagers and bonding with them over a game of football – but risks being targeted by Lucrecia’s assassins. His arc – and the direct consequences of his actions from the first season being the driving force of the narrative here very much give much of The Mosquito Coast its biting edge that looks set to bring the series to its head. We’ve seen examples of AppleTV+’s budget and on location shooting really favouring The Mosquito Coast in giving it a luxurious edge, and you wouldn’t be surprised if you were watching the series in a theatre on a giant movie screen. Appropriately cinematic.<br />
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William Lee is looking for the family which puts Isela’s community potentially at risk, and he has the motivation needed to succeed in his goal. Isela is more forgiving of the Foxes than most would’ve been, but she needs Allie for now for their own ends – and she’s already manipulating their interests by selling the trawler to Ridley and taking away their get-out cause. Dina suggests that a way out would be to get the trawler back from its new owner, but Allie is one step ahead, having sunk it before it could be sold rendering Dina’s escape plan mute, and putting Allie’s perfect example of paranoia in motion for all to see – the dislike of him as a main character is such a fascinating direction for the show to take and it puts him essentially in the role of a Tommy Shelby-type figure, hated by the rest of his family – but there’s a greater evil out there, and they’re willing to work with him. This pours everything into a real melting pot – leaving everything on a knife edge simmering underneath the surface – waiting to explode. <br />
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Margot and Allie are held loosely together by the need to protect their kids, and Margot is starting to go sick and tired of her life in isolation. She comes up with a plan with Dina – again pairing one of the parents up with a different child this time; to go behind Allie’s back and try to cut a deal with the government – complete and total immunity for her, Dina and Charlie – in exchange for their old lives back. She’s the one that’s over the most of it – reminding Allie that he’s holding them all prisoner, doubly so as a result of the boat-sinking – and it really exemplifies the tension here. It feels a little late for Margot to come to this realisation given how long they’ve been on the run for – this is where more flashbacks to their past could have come in handy, but the welcome premiere flashback gave us a source of answers which I’ll always appreciate this show given how rare they can be.<br />
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The show has needed to bring the problems between Margot and Allie to light for a while now and A Rag, a Bone a Hank of Hair gets there even if it’s not done in the most convincing ways. Margot using Dina to essentially manipulate Alfonso shows just that she’s as cruel as Allie is – especially when calling up the FBI – who tell her that Allie isn’t enough for them – and a reminder that she used to be an activist, too – it wasn’t just Allie that was the one in trouble with the government. Margot has blood on her hands too. Dina and Alfonso get some quality time together – Alfonso’s joke about <i>Transformers: Age of Extinction</i> grounded <i>The Mosquito Coast</i> in a sense of place; and the beautifully shot cave cinema sounds like something where I’d love to watch a movie at. <br />
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William Lee is doing his own side things too – investigating the criminal underworld and further advancing his quest. It’s a plot that’s surely building towards another showdown with the Foxes. Charlie has a question of his own that brings him into contact briefly with the outside world; his discovery of nature and life prompts him to square of with some hunters who chase him through the woods. They know that Charlie is there now and what’s more is that cameras have been set-up in the woods – which he points out to Allie, who tells him to keep quiet about that for now. The chances of people connecting the dots between Charlie and a murder on the other side of the world are second to none, Allie says.<br />
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After a storm capsizes their boat, the Foxes work to repair it so they won’t be stranded by rising waters in an unforgiving jungle.
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</div>SpoilerTVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06383371041855468000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29964715.post-76924132378160360042022-11-08T09:04:00.001+00:002022-11-08T09:04:13.881+00:00The Mosquito Coast - The Damage Done - Review<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijgjIze_LAgyJOvR7p_CVFgQQDPieHuvD33vpXnL5Kyn3FbjyXvAQbcdQdRst_JvZHVy7X_PtjXA8etD-grPbVQIGa53p1np92r2RrYq-rkYfQdA3-v03MJag7eZCbfdttkNGUlm77uFDcM09RWKz8umJtxAIvLg04E68JcOMXb3PFbb5EYI0/s1600/mosquitocoast.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="726" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijgjIze_LAgyJOvR7p_CVFgQQDPieHuvD33vpXnL5Kyn3FbjyXvAQbcdQdRst_JvZHVy7X_PtjXA8etD-grPbVQIGa53p1np92r2RrYq-rkYfQdA3-v03MJag7eZCbfdttkNGUlm77uFDcM09RWKz8umJtxAIvLg04E68JcOMXb3PFbb5EYI0/s1600/mosquitocoast.jpg"/></a></div><br />
<br /> After a long extended break in which <i>The Mosquito Coast</i>’s absence gave me time to read Paul Theroux’s brilliant novel that the series draws its inspiration from, this understated series returned for its second chapter which finally gave us some answers in a moment that proves it was absolutely worth the wait for fans of the first season – explaining why Allie and Margot become the fugitives from the US Government.<br />
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We see how much they care for the kids and we see that Margot was as extreme as Allie, just in their different ways – Margot was an anarchist activist who plotted to blow up a building with new man Richard and successfully does so – but is left behind and ends up living with the guilt that she killed someone. Allie could have, <i>Catch Me If You Can</i> style, worked with the law enforcement to bring Margot down, but Allie using his own data is a very Edward Snowden-type level of character and the consequences are big enough on their own – using it to spy on his wife’s new boyfriend undermines his argument completely about the corporate overlords selling his data to the government – but it’s still a very valid concern; even if in his view, nobody cares even when the news was made public – ease of access prioritised over privacy. But what the kids don’t know is that Margot’s the real reason behind why they’re in so much trouble, a murder charge on her hands.<br />
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<i>The Mosquito’s Coast</i> premiere raises just as much questions as it answers – and it returns with a strong, solid start for Season 2. <br />
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<br />Starring Justin Theroux and Melissa George, the thrilling season finale of “The Mosquito Coast” debuts Friday, June 4 on Apple TV+
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<br />Starring Justin Theroux, Logan Polish, Melissa George and Gabriel Bateman, “The Mosquito Coast” has been renewed for a second season.
<br />Following its widely acclaimed global debut, Apple TV+ announced today that the gripping drama series, “The Mosquito Coast,” produced by Fremantle, has been picked up for a second season. Hailed by critics and fans alike for standout performances by stars Justin Theroux, Melissa George, Logan Polish and Gabriel Bateman, the renewal was announced ahead of the highly anticipated season one finale, premiering globally this Friday on Apple TV+.
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<br />“‘The Mosquito Coast’ has captured the imagination of viewers all over the world, not only because of its adrenaline-fueled action and adventure, but also for the engaging family story and captivating performances at its heart,” said Matt Cherniss, Apple's head of programming. “We can’t wait to find out what comes next for the Fox family, and for audiences to continue to experience the thrill ride.”
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<br />From award-winning novelist Neil Cross, and based on the best-selling book by Paul Theroux which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, “The Mosquito Coast” is a gripping adventure and layered character drama following the dangerous journey of a radical idealist and brilliant inventor, Allie Fox (played by Justin Theroux), who uproots his family for Mexico when they suddenly find themselves on the run from the US government.
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<br />The seven-episode series is created for television and executive produced by Neil Cross. Executive producers also include author Paul Theroux, star Justin Theroux, Rupert Wyatt and Edward L. McDonnell. Alan Gasmer, Peter Jaysen and Bob Bookman also serve as executive producers for Veritas Entertainment Group. Developed by Neil Cross & Tom Bissell, “The Mosquito Coast” is a Fremantle Production for Apple TV+.
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