Wow,
Eternal Sunshine of a Caffeinated Mind runs a lot of
major development in the last few minutes, leaving us with quite a bit to
absorb. Almost always at the end of iZombie episodes, there are twists and
turns to leave the viewer wondering what would happen next. While the results
of the case in the episode is a bummer for sure—a good-hearted mother with a
positive outlook on life and devotion towards doing the right thing is
ultimately killed by her Paris-obsessed, greedy artiste daughter and the
daughter’s French-accented guitar/singer wannabe beau and the daughter gets her
pushover patsy boyfriend to take the fall so she can gain a significant
inheritance and payout for the coffee shop, Positivity, her mother’s former
lover/partner is willing to fork over to franchise the business—Liv socking
Rita in the chops after discovering through a “slip” from Major that her
roommate isn’t Gilda, in fact revealed to be that bitch who sent her pic in a
text in lingerie does feel oh so satisfying. Rita looking up at Liv giving her
the goods on how she will pay for her trickery with this fear, shock and awe is
the bee’s knees. Also cool is the subplot involving Mr. Boss realizing Blaine
was working against him for the DA’s office, slitting his throat in the middle
of a Seattle forest, leaving him buried, not knowing that he would soon “zombie”
back to his feet, scaring a bird-watching troupe in the process! Major
realizing he would be returning to a zombie, too, is disappointed when Ravi’s
use of the tainted Utopium from the found thugs buried in a field on a white
rat reveals that his new serum isn’t working, just leaving the rodent an even
sicker zombie. Blaine once again has some miracle rescue him from inevitable
doom—but this show eventually was going to let us know that karma would reach
him for all his many sins. Boss was really working the tough guy, talking-shit Mafioso
bit, too. Also further defined in this episode is Liv’s current 2
nd
season boyfriend, and the muscle/killa for both Boss/Blaine, Drake is actually undercover
Informant for a detective (Enrico Colantoni, who worked for Rob Thomas and
company on
Veronica Mars) often swapping barbs and lingo (and analogies) with
his partner. Colantoni is having too much fun as the detective with plenty of
comic zingers, requesting Drake to break it off with Liv, while Liv is starting
to wonder if she is truly in love or “dimwitted”, thinking about what her
murder victim’s daughter said about her mother’s change in behavior. This
episode doesn’t give us the happy ending to the case. Sure the actual one
responsible for missing screws resulting in an air conditioner dropping on the
mother, crushing her while she looks at Mona Lisa drawn on the sidewalk, gets
arrested, but the mastermind behind it all gets away scot-free. Thus is life, I
guess. Included in the episode for some levity is Ravi’s [brief] interest in a
coffee “manager” at Positivity, when the dealbreaker of not knowing easy Star
Wars trivia and love for “transgressive-ism” ends any hope at possible romance.
Liv’s brain personality for the episode is the motivational speaker mom with
positive vibes aplenty…once again, McIver is just a hoot. 4/5
*
The Office fans are treated to a guest appearance from
Oscar Nuñez as the victim's ex boyfriend, and temporary suspect, until he reveals why he wasn't able to find time to kill her...because he was struck with bad diarrhea!
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