The Catch is my first Shondaland show, for no special reason beyond not getting in on any of the others at the start and then not being interested enough to catch up. So I’m just guessing, but I take it that this is a common style? It feels like that to me – one of those parts of America that just escapes me. The people, the fashions, those shoes, the money. So much money.
I watched this mostly for Mireille Enos, but much of what worked in The Killing came across here as a bit off. It’s hard to say. I was entirely too distracted by the eye makeup, because like I said, this is a strange land to me. They nearly lost me anyway within the first 20 minutes with that endless Pitbull-soundtracked scene. A bullshit simulation of some kind of “character setting”.
After that it got a bit better, but not much. They do the treat-obvious-stuff-as-difficult trick that makes people watching feel like “Me am smart!”. Not a plus. The ne’er-do-well husband is So Generic good gravy. Vat-grown cruelty-free casting.
The painting that’s one of the episode’s MacGuffins is gorgeous, though:
