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Trickisthe final episode, believe it or not.
How did we get here?
Its a show that refused to be its whole self from the jump.
The suddenepisode-threeturn into thriller storytelling was always part ofRuns premise, always the directionRuns runaway train was headed.
The show relied on the strength of Billy and Rubys relationship to pull all its tonal strings together.
It wasrequiredthat these two people have the hots for one another in an undeniable, alchemical way.
Fiona, their major midseason antagonist, was a shell of a person.
Weird taxidermist Phoebe Waller-Bridge only barely hung together as a collection of strange traits.
Deputy Babe Cloud was nice, but she also had almost nothing to do.
Ruby is frustrated with her marriage.
Billy is frustrated with his career.
She wants to be with Billy, she says.
and is alerted by a notification that he has a new email.
They get to Los Angeles, somehow narrowly avoiding the police who are after them (??).
Do we want Ruby and Billy to end up together?
Is their relationship even the thing we still care about most by the end of the series?
Do we want the show to make us cheer for them in spite of their flaws?
But by the end, theres no clear sense of whatRuneven wants its viewers towant.
Its hard not to look atRunand take a stab at pull apart all of the things it shouldve been.
In the end,Runfeels like an experiment that did not work, but that Im still glad existed.
Excess Baggage
Phoebe Waller-Bridge never did really lock in that American accent, did she?
In the future itd be highly preferable for all productions to just let her be British.
Why is he in this show?
Its just another example ofRuns ability to find some interesting small detail the mac n cheese!
but then fail to follow through on building it into a full character.
None of its great, to be honest!
He has so little to do, and is so good at beingugh,that husband.
