Last Resort, Season 1, Episode 12: “The Pointy End of the Spear”
Written by Ron Fitzgerald
Directed by Paris Barclay
Airs Thursdays at 8pm (Et) on ABC
It’s always difficult watching the abrupt final episodes of a show with big ideas, such as Last Resort. Too often, such episodes end up becoming unwitting eulogies for what the show could have been, the storylines it could have explored, and every so often, they end with a cliffhanger crucial to the story that will never get resolved. Show co-creator Shawn Ryan, however, has had some experience in working with superb shows that only last one season, and has been involved in shows such as Terriers and Chicago Code, which managed to have very satisfactory endings that resolved some ideas, yet left the door open for future development. Thus, Last Resort can go in one of two directions in its final two episodes,...
Written by Ron Fitzgerald
Directed by Paris Barclay
Airs Thursdays at 8pm (Et) on ABC
It’s always difficult watching the abrupt final episodes of a show with big ideas, such as Last Resort. Too often, such episodes end up becoming unwitting eulogies for what the show could have been, the storylines it could have explored, and every so often, they end with a cliffhanger crucial to the story that will never get resolved. Show co-creator Shawn Ryan, however, has had some experience in working with superb shows that only last one season, and has been involved in shows such as Terriers and Chicago Code, which managed to have very satisfactory endings that resolved some ideas, yet left the door open for future development. Thus, Last Resort can go in one of two directions in its final two episodes,...
- 1/19/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
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