giovedì 15 marzo 2018

Stitchers season 1

I liked the idea at the beginning, because this thing of having no sense of time at all was intriguing, but it’s not confronted very well or very often. On the contrary, it is almost never pertinent, it’s only an excuse for Kirsten’s arrogance, lack of empathy, lack of tact, lack of diplomacy... I think this series failed to describe a character so complex. They tell you that she has no sense of time and therefore no emotions and no politeness... and the whole thing is never really confronted, specially by herself, who is always arrogant, and thinks that what she thinks or wants is the only thing that matters, and never tries to act in a better way with the people around her, always expecting that the others adapt to her. 
It’s also absurd that they take in this girl and basically let her run the place, because she does and says whatever she wants and they all accept it. 
1-A stitch in time
Pasadena, CA. Kirsten has temporal-dysplasia or something. Polygraphs don’t work on her. Detective Fisher of the LAPD tells her that the man who raised her is dead. Her father left her when she was a child. They say it’s suicide, she says it’s murder. Her roommate causes her an Academic suspension. Kirsten breaks into the LAPD server but armed men stop her and she finds herself elsewhere. She has no time perception. Maggie talks to her of her project. The Stitchers program. I appreciated the Tolkien/DoctorWho references :-)
They insert a living consciousness into dead people’s memory. Martha tried before Kirsten but she “couldn’t handle it”. Kirsten tries it and she comes out “dressed like catwoman” :p 
Cameron and Kirsten find the bomb and stop it. Ed and her father created the program. 
Kirsten wanted to leave but stays to find out what happened to Ed. 
For the first time, being stitched to another person, Kirsten felt emotions and  she now has an idea what grief anger and love feel like.
2-Friends in low places
Her roommate cooks for her to apologize and Kirsten says “this is what sorry looks like?”
Kirsten wanted to stitch into Ned but Maggie stops her for another case. A girl killed with a new dangerous drug. Fisher is on the case too, but people tell him that Lisa’s body is gone (because the Stitchers have it of course). Lisa didn’t ODed, she was murdered. Kirsten wants to solve this case only to find out what happened to Ed, and then she’s done, she says. Maggie is a former CIA.
Kirsten, Cameron, Linus and Camille go to a rave party, and Camilla chooses Kirsten’s dress because she doesn’t know how to dress for a rave - there are a lot of things she doesn’t know, but in a way this one seems the weirdest because you don’t need emotions or personal experience to know that you don’t go to a rave party dressed like a librarian. 
Camille has a taser to shock the bouncer, but then they are stopped by Fisher so Kirsten tells him everything and brings him in. It also comes out that Camille was in the program already, paid to spy on Kirsten and report to Maggie, and has been for a year. Camille had Kirsten suspended because they told her to, they needed Kirsten. 
Lisa wanted to save runaway Denise, to get her back to the shelter, but Denise’s drug-dealer boyfriend killed her. 
Fisher gets them a warrant and they arrest the guy and save the girl, but when they get back Ed’s brain’s gone, she can’t stitch into him anymore. She’s angry but Maggie tells her that she’ll have every thing Ed had, and that there are monsters everywhere and they can stop them. 
At the end we see Cameron visiting Martha in a hospital, she’s in a coma.
3-Connections
Kirsten and Camille bring all Ed’s stuff home. 
A bride, Lily, was killed on her honeymoon. Martha couldn’t separate her emotions from the stitch, that’s why Cameron’s so worried about Kirsten’s connection with Scott, Lily’s husband. Kirsten and Cameron try to bait the robber wearing lots of expensive jewels. Linus and Camille hook up, so when Kirsten sends her a text “with killer, track my phone, call Fisher” of course she doesn’t see it, and the sound is off, obviously, phones always have the sound off in movies :-/ 
Eventually she sees it though. Cameron knocks the robber out with a bucket. Later Kirsten says “Is this what love is? Intense connection and then heartbreaking loss?”
Ed made Kirsten a cassette “for when I’m gone” when she was little and she threw it away then, but he kept it. Maggie has the missing part of the picture with the same message “remember”. In Ed’s part, there were him and Kirsten’s mom, in Maggie’s there was herself.
Martha wakes up.
4-I see you
Cameron goes to talk to the neighbour he thinks steals his magazines, but finds him dead. He used to live there, in that apartment, that’s why the mail gets mixed up, so maybe Cameron was the target.. Linus was hurt when Camille didn’t return his calls, but she likes being single and doesn’t want to ‘hang out’ with Linus, and yet she sounded kind of jealous when she didn’t want Linus to go over to the pretty girl who just invited ‘Robbie’ for a beer.  
Linus : “it is a good day to spy” sounding like Worf :-p They go in Cameron’s apartment to find out who his neighbour Robbie was spying on. 
Cameron shows Kirsten the recording of when Martha had the ‘accident’. 
Robbie bought a painting because a couple was fighting about money, and he sent groceries to a model who had nothing... he was being kind, and he died because he stumbled on a human trafficker. 
Kirsten sees Cameron half-naked, and he has a big vertical scar on his chest. He closes the door without explanations. In the last image, someone is spying on them...
5-Stitcher in the rye
An ex CIA man, now writing conspiracy theories in his blog, is dead. They need to find where he kept his secrets. Kirsten finds that someone leaked the stitchers algorithm to dead Justin and asks everyone proof that they didn’t do it. Camille and Linus were together and Cameron was elsewhere, so she suspect Maggie of course, and she openly asks her if she’s the leak. Finally talking instead of throwing wild accusations, Kirsten tells Cameron of a tattoo she saw. It was Martha, who woke up and checked herself out a week ago. Kirsten receives coded messages on her phone. Martha tells her that she’s in danger and can’t trust anyone, and that stitchers are evil, and admits that she leaked the algorithm and shot Maggie in the arm; then she answers a call and then she walks out with a gun so the police shot her. Kirsten again accuses Maggie and is suspicious even more when Maggie refuses to have her stitch into Martha. Maggie knows who called Martha=Les, the director of the program. He also killed Justin in order to stitch into him. 
Martha let the police kill her to protect Kristen... right? How? Why?
there’s also apparently a secret: what the program was really designed to do..
6-Finally
Dany, a doctor who got killed, worked on a project that sort of studied brains... kinda. Long story. She was killed because she knew the project wasn’t working and could have shut it down. 
Ed left Kirsten coded map coordinates, to her mom’s grave where she finds a hidden key.
Going back home, Kirsten meet Mr Turner inside her home, and before leaving he tells her that Ed Clark didn’t commit suicide, he died to protect her. After that, she went to sleep in Camille’s bed.
7-The root of all evil
Liam comes to see Kirsten, and she matter-of-factly tells Camille that he’s her boyfriend. Kristen’s completely tactless, I don’t like this. She says “I’m not wrong” as if that’s the only thing that matters. She has no tact, no discretion, and no empathy. 
Cameron is jealous of Liam, and that’s so boring. Liam appears to be amazing, and that’s suspicious.
The case: a girl is dead. She used to break into rich people’s homes to party and steal jewels. She died because she was blackmailing a cheating married woman. 
Liam asks Kirsten to marry him.
8-Fire in the hole
They all try to surprise Kirsten with a birthday cake, but surprises are lost on her. 
This episode’s body might be contagious, so the place is on emergency lockdown. Linus is the first to feel sick. Camille has to crawl thru a tunnel to get to a restricted area, and at a certain point she stops because she’s terrified of a rat that walks over her, and Kirsten tells her “do it for Linus” and she moves again. They all call their loved ones, but none of them says why. Everyone calls except Kirsten and Camille. Camille has nobody to call, and Kirsten says she has no intention to die.
Maggie tells Kirsten that her mom worked at the program, that she and Ed were the minds behind it. 
Kirsten figures a solution, then call Fisher to bring the cure, then he gets into trouble and she helps him because “no-one else will die protecting her”.. at the end they’re all cured, and go home taking the rest of the day off.
9-Future tense
Linus asks Camille to have dinner with his parents since he told them in last episode that she was his girlfriend. Linus is very nervous. His parents love Camille :-) His mom gives her his great-grandmother’s ring, but at the end she gives it back. Camille loves them too, and she tells his mom that they are warm, wonderful people.
A self-proclaimed psychic is found dead in her home, and while stitching Kirsten sees a murder that has not happened yet. 
Liam is being followed and wants to know what she really does. Kirsten tells him that she can’t marry him because she hasn’t yet figured out who she is and who she wants to become. 
At the end, Liam talks to someone on the phone asking what’s plan b after Kirsten turned him down...
10-Full stop
Camille and Kirsten are having a girl-talk in the bathroom when they hear gunshots: Cameron and Fisher are hit, they lie on the floor. Cameron’s fine enough, because Fisher saved him. 
Kirsten opens the security box with the key she found at her mom’s grave and finds a video of his father stitching her into her mom-in-a-coma, but it killed her and caused Kirsten’s temporal dysplasia (or something). After what happened, Cameron trains Camille to do what he does; later he injects himself with something to stop his heart so that Kirsten can stitch into him and see what he can’t remember. His mind is full of her, surprise surprise :-/
Kirsten met him when she was little: they were in the same hospital, she was at her mom’s bedside and he just had surgery.
Finally Kirsten realizes Cameron’s feelings when she says “I didn’t know” and “I’m everywhere”..
It ends with them trying to revive him, looking like they’re not succeeding. 
11-When darkness falls
It’s near Halloween and Camille tries unsuccessfully to scare Kirsten but she “doesn’t do scared”. She stitches into a dead guy, Devon, that’s suspected of having abducted a girl. Ultimately she finds her alive in the guy’s basement, but for a couple of days she actually is scared: during the stitching she freaks out when Devon talks to her directly, and then she sees Devon out of her window at night. She runs to Cameron’s place but can’t sleep because she keeps having nightmares and seeing Devon outside the door. Still, when she wakes Cameron up and he opens the door to check, there’s nobody in sight. Too scared to sleep, she asks Cameron to sleep with her and they sleep together. Poor Cameron though, she really doesn’t understand that he likes her... she hugs him and finally sleeps.
Finally it’s Halloween, the case is over, Kelly has been saved, so they have Camille’s halloween party at Devon’s house! Everyone’s having fun and Cameron asks Kirsten to dance, but she goes upstairs to look around. During the stitch she saw Devon talking to himself in the mirror, but there is no mirror in the room! She finds a picture of Devon and his twin! He comes out and grabs her and they fight.
She stalls him with “I’m just like you” speeches, until she knocks him down. Nobody knew that Devon had a twin brother, an evil twin! We’ll let this pass for Halloween’s sake...

Kirsten Clark-Emma Ishta
Cameron-Kyle Harris
Linus-Ritesh Rajan
Maggie-Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Camille-Allison Scagliotti

Fisher-Damon Dayoub

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