What an exciting finale ABC's V delivered! While the show is frequently uneven, and suffers from major plot holes, more so than almost any other show on television, when things work, they really work. The second season finale, entitled "Mother's Day", has few problems. In fact, it is probably one of the strongest episodes to date. Considering the steadily increasing quality, I am really holding out hope for season three, as the series may hit its stride given one more chance. Plus, with a cliffhanger like this, we just need to see more!
The culmination for control of the V race came to a head. Lisa (Laura Vandervoort) lures Anna (Morena Baccarin) into a trap, intending to kill her. Anna sees what her daughter is about to do in a conveniently located reflective surface, and fakes emotion convincingly enough to stop Lisa. I can see why Lisa gives her mother the benefit of the doubt. Lisa has developed emotions, and so would want to think the best of her mother, no matter what past experience has taught her. Despite Erica's (Elizabeth Mitchell) anger at her, I think Lisa is justified in her actions.
Sadly, that justification comes with steep consequences. Anna kills her mother, Diana (Jane Badler), whose friends have helped her escape, then installs Lisa in Diana's former dungeon. Anna's backup queen egg hatches, and Anna has her new daughter made to look exactly like Lisa and given her memories. Lisa 2.0 mates with, and kills, Tyler (Logan Huffman), whom Lisa is in love with, while Lisa watches helplessly on a video screen.
This series has proved to me that Vandervoort's bad run on Smallville was either a fluke, or she has improved greatly in her acting ability. This episode gave her an even bigger chance to shine, as we got to see her as the Lisa we've grown to love AND a ruthless, cold blooded killer more chilling than even Anna. If for no other reason, V needs a third season pick up so we can watch Vandervoort work her magic in the duel role. From what we've seen so far, she is good, like Nina Dobrev in The Vampire Diaries level good.
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Article comments
1 - Glen Boyd
Nice review Jerome. You should use the facebook link you provided to link to it. I did.
-Glen
2 - Maddy Rain
too little, too late. ABC is not going to continue with it considering how they treated it throughout the season.
Why do half the images in this article look so bad? terrible resolution
3 - Jerome Wetzel
Ausiello at TVLine gives V a 'could go either way' chance. He's usually pretty accurate, so I'm still holding out hope.
I explained via twitter, but I should have included an explanation with this article about the image quality. Generally I can get good images from imdb, google, searching other web pages or the show's web site. The images ABC provided for this episode were pretty much useless, in my opinion, for the things I talked about in my review. My other option, should I fail to find suitable images, is to watch the episode on the show's web site and print screen and crop the images myself. This episode was not posted. As such, I took images in that manner from grainy trailers for the episode. I apologize for the distortion. I have never had so much trouble finding relevant images before!
4 - El Bicho
"Ausiello at TVLine gives V a 'could go either way' chance. He's usually pretty accurate"
Not to tough to be accurate with a choice like that. I'll pick that for every TV series and score 100%
5 - Jerome Wetzel
El Bicho - LOL, that is only one of many choices he has to label series. He does change the labels as situations change. Generally, there aren't too many he had a negative label on that get renewed, and vice versa, whereas the could go either way really means that. There are arguments to be made for each situation. What I meant is, he usually has a pretty good vibe as to what is going on within the industry, and when he last updated the list, he still felt like this one wasn't written off. Now that the finale has aired, new ratings have come out, I would expect him to soon change to a better chance or lesser chance, even before an official decision is made.