B.A.

"Two"


Cast: Ray Liotta, Virginia Madsen, Simon Baker, Amy Smart, Jonny Lee Miller, Franky G, Shohreh Aghdashloo.
Director(s): Christopher Chulack.
Producer(s): John Wells, Christopher Chulack, Brooke Kennedy.
Writer(s): John Wells.

Original Airdate: September 26, 2006.

Smith

Ayre

I would like to give this show another shot. But I have to start making cuts. This show was just too slick and cold for its own good. It would make a good movie.

I am out.

RichC2

Not a great show, but it's leisurely and kind of enjoyable. Seems to be building toward something, and I have nothing else to watch at 10 pm Tuesdays.

Legolas

Did they drop Michelle Hurd after one episode? I think she was part of the regular credits for the pilot.

Also, if they were going to play this cops and robbers thing out, they should've gotten someone who could go toe-to-toe with Liotta acting-wise. Maybe Michael Biehn or Peter Weller, or perhaps a TV actor who isn't currently on a show like Dylan McDermott, Dennis Franz or Joe Pantoliano.

Anyone get a Heat vibe when they all met at the shipping yard?

matrixrok9

I got the Italian Job vibe.

TheMovieman

As for the episode, I got real tired of Virginia Madsen going all secret agent... Stick with the crime.

Edited for stupidity

Legolas

Was the payout meeting place the Redfoot meeting place from The Usual Suspects?

DeadLamb

yeah I think so and as mentioned the dock area looks like or was the same one from Heat. They even parked in the same basic area/view.

I'm going to guess they did that on purpose being it's a TV show about heists same as the films.. IMO, both locations are too well known to show up in the same ep of a tv show as an "opps". Heck even the view from the roof with guard running in was sort of like the film Family Business but then again it might just be that there is not really that many different ways to shoot stuff like that.

as for the show over all I really liked this ep too.. pretty good pace as far as a mix if short story lines and longer over all plot lines. Sure it's only been two eps but I'll keep waching..

B.A.

Liotta looks like shit.

movieking

I thought this second episode was pretty good. Looks like Amy Smart might be the one that could lead to having the gang found out, while the psycho guy now has a drug dealer after him for killing his brother and cousin. I guess him stealing the motorcycle shows how unbalanced he is, as that is something you definitely don't want to do if you are trying not to attract attention to yourself.

Can we have one show or movie whereby the thief doesn't pledge that he is quitting for good soon? This has got to be one of the most overused plot devices ever.

LorenzoL

I liked the second episode. I don't think there's anything "original" about this show but I like Amy Smart and Simon Baker's characters and performances.

vegasbaby

one word ... plastics.

butcher job.

vegasbaby

i liked this episode better than the pilot.

the wife subplot doesnt make sense. liotta's been a crook for years. why would his wife all of a sudden be suspicious?

speaking of references, there was a little goodfellas reference when amy smart wanted a bigger payout (like the toupeed guy in goodfellas). not identical, but similar reactionsby liotta (instead of deniro).

vegasbaby

baker's gotta get a haircut and new shades.

B.A.

He must have went to see the same doctor that Burt Reynolds visited.

Shannon Nutt

Yeah, Liotta doesn't look good at all...not sure why his face is all puffy like that -- almost looks like a medical condition or something.

What was that motorcycle stealing/race all about...other than a "time filler"???

I didn't like this episode as much as the pilot...but I like Liotta enough to keep watching - for now, at least.

DigIt

I got the sense that the wife knows but because she is on probation, to protect themselves in case he gets caught, she doesn't ask and he doesn't tell.

Septemberbaby

Help me out... wasn't Liotta fired from his job last week?

dgmayor

The guy wanted to fire him, but Charlie (the woman that gives Bobby the jobs) either owns the company or has some sort of overall sayso as to who stays and who goes. Obviously the job was given to Bobby so he looks legit. When the boss offered him the 3 months pay to leave, Bobby made a thinly veiled threat about taking it up with Charlie. The boss fumed a bit but walked out of his office defeated.

dgmayor

I think the point is that they're supposed to have stopped any criminal activity that they used to be involved in. Specifically because the wife is on parole right now. He's still doing jobs behind her back, and she's suspicous/worried that he is. The point is that they're supposed to be a normal couple now, legit and working 9-5's.

Septemberbaby

Thanks.. I must have missed that little tidbit.

dek

Usual Suspects and Heat. They all meet at the Usual Suspects place, then head to the shipyard where Deniro set up Pacino so he could take pictures of them. As well as in Heat, the crew was on a job to steal precious metals, the next job the Smith crew is set to take on.

ClarkKentKY

Anybody know the song playing at the end of the episode? Almost sounded like Thom Yorke.

Jack's Smirking

Yep, it was "Black Swan" by Thom Yorke.

peon73

yes that is thom yorke, "black swan" off his solo album and he's actually singing, "this is fucked up. fucked up.". who ever is choosing the music has an eclectic taste. last week's closing song was Hide and seek by imogen heap.