brendan-63701

This is a complete disaster. What a disappointing ending. I got so hooked on The Bureau, and to have a new showrunner come in for the last 2 episodes (even one with Audiard's pedigree) has to be one of the worst single decisions I've ever seen in a TV show. These last 2 episodes don't even feel like the same show, they ignore half the characters, insert terrible new side characters (Jonas's girlfriend) that mean nothing and just eat up time. I get the idea of not wanting to be sentimental, but this just burns the whole show down. He abandoned the focus on spycraft, technique, the realism that made it so great. He ignored the central plot lines of this season and gave the characters psychic abilities in the last 20 minutes. That is simply not what this show is about. And of course that one choice at the end is horrible. I'll just be pretending these episodes don't exist, it's not just the spitting in the face of the audience and cruelty towards Guillaume, but it didn't even try to exist in the world of the show we've come to love.

I've been really enjoying the season, but this episode was very strange. Mixxy's behavior didn't match the characterization and build up, then deleting messages is suspicious. I just don't understand why she was so mad at Suzie all of a sudden. Why is Sunny snubbing Suzie so badly? I felt so bad for Sunny but then Suzie didn't seem to be concerned something was wrong with her right away. Then Sunny was nice to the Mother in law. I was very confused multiple times during this episode. I don't care about the Yakuza lady and her father much. They haven't linked it into the rest of the plot well at all and it's getting too long without doing that. Really much worse than the rest of the season.

Boiling Point is an extremely tense restaurant story filmed in a single shot. The execution was superb, it fit the intense claustrophobic experience of working in a restaurant perfectly. It also moved very naturally, never feeling like a gimmick, the film transitioned seamlessly between characters as we followed a crazy night of service in the busy restaurant. The film did an excellent job of establishing unique characters very quickly and showing us the dynamics of the staff in the first minutes of the film. We also got hints and clues of what was to come early on, the small details slowly built on each other, growing the tension and anxiety as the plot progressed and the night descended into chaos as the problems piled up.