Legends of Tomorrow Review: Speakeasy Does It (Season 7 Episode 4)
Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 4, “Speakeasy Does It,” gets the team embroiled in mob troubles on two fronts.
With the extreme high point that was last week’s “wvrdr_error_100 not found,” which was a great encapsulation and celebration of everything that the series has done right, it’s natural that whatever follows would be a little lesser in comparison.
That isn’t to say that “Speakeasy Does It” is a bad episode or even a not-good one. It is a perfectly adequate episode, it merely pales in contrast in regards to what precedes it. If anything, the fault lies in the scheduling and pacing of this season by placing this after the previous episode but that would likely be true no matter what they slotted in here.
As it stands, you probably need to think about this episode removed from the previous one to help with your enjoyment of it. In a lot of ways, this is a standalone installment. It’s not really pushing the needle of the season to a large degree but it’s more of something that Legends of Tomorrow is adept at.
It’s dropping the Legends on both sides of this episode in situations and then stepping back and seeing what comes of it. The main plot sees the core of the team getting locked into hijinx with an inclusive speakeasy and all the drama that entails. On the other side, we have Spooner, Astra, and Gideon trying to help a singer get away from the mob.
Throughout both plots, there’s a running theme of how much one is able to interfere in the natural course of history and how much personal responsibility do you have regardless of that. With Zari and the team, the stance on that is a very Legends of Tomorrow one where if you mess something up, you have to right it.
It’s a natural continuation of the show’s long-held philosophy of screwing things up for the better. Even if you disrupted how things were supposed to go, there’s still an obligation to set things straight. Of course, this takes form by the mayors of clowntown (specifically Zari) their own speakeasy in a hell dimension.
Alternatively, what is happening with Spooner, Astra, and Gideon is much more earnest and somber. Their story is more a question of, as time travelers, do they have any right to change the outcome for someone has not been affected by anachronisms the normal kind of shenanigans that the team would normally deal with.
There’s nothing necessarily to course-correct with Maude and where her timeline ultimately ends up. Originally, she dies because she was with a cruel and violent man who was always inevitably going to kill her. That’s tragic but simple time travel rules indicate that being her destiny, as needless and awful as that may be.
The correct thing would be to leave her to her fate but it wouldn’t be the right thing to do. It’s two different kinds of ethics: the one of time travel and the other of being a human. In this case, the differences are more distinct but it’s still going back to that same conceit we mentioned: changing things for the better.
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Legends of Tomorrow airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on The CW.
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Drew Koenig
Drew has an ongoing, borderline unhealthy obsession with pop culture, but with television in particular. When he's not aggressively trying to get out of a perpetual state of catching up, he can be found passionately defending the ending of Lost. More of his online work can be found at The Lost Cause and he also co-hosts The Lost Cause Pod.