2.5 Gaslight Gaslight is really about creepy goings on in a hospital where people see things that aren’t real so it makes them do crazy things. It’s a homage to early slasher movies, in an obtuse way. I was fine with this for the first five minutes or more, as the tension was cranked up a little, but after a while it became obvious when someone was having a delusion, and by the time the events were explained they’d flogged the mystery entirely to death. But one scene in the show made me unintentionally laugh, and the other was an irritating allusion to how young people are today. The funny part was the blackboard scene with Kat. When a TV or film company makes a production like Alphas, they employ lots of very talented people, such as production designers to help them make it look good. The trouble with this is whenever a character is required to draw anything they can’t resist having a professional production artist do the work. So as a result, anyone that draws something in a TV show is a brilliant artist, which you become in this context by seeing someone else draw something once. Dumb. The return of Anna, who in Gary’s illusion can speak now, was a high point of the episode. The story in which she first appeared, Rosetta, was probably one of the strongest of season one, and the dynamic between her and Gary created one of the first character development offerings of the show. At the end they hint that Gary thinks she does live, even if we’ve not seen any evidence to support this idea, and she was shot in the head previously. So does Anna live? Probably not, but it’s an interesting diversion for Gary, who really needs another dimension to his character than his usual knack of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Next week the Alphas go to Alphaville, via Betaborough and Delta City, presumably. But we’re promised the return of Skylar Adams (Summer Glau), which is enough to make me tune in. Read Billy’s review of last week’s episode, When Push Comes To Shove, here. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
