Hello Tomorrow! Season 1 Episode 8 Review: The Gargon Mothership
Jack gets himself a stay of execution on Hello Tomorrow! Season 1 Episode 8, “The Gargon Mothership,” but he’ll have to go forward without his full team to back him up.
They are upset they’ve been lied to by Jack, and who can blame them, really? It is a monstrous deception on which to hang their future, and to go along with him now is a fool’s errand. One Herb is still unwittingly committed to.
Jack’s dedication to this pie-in-the-sky dream is actually exhausting—for both the viewers and other characters alike.
In my review of Hello Tomorrow! Season 1 Episode 7, “Another Day, Another Apocalypse,” I compared his compulsion to addiction. Shirley’s reaction to learning the truth early in the episode supports this.
Shirley: You made me lose my mind.
Jack: I’ll do whatever it takes to make it right. Partners, right down the middle.
Shirley: You can’t stop, can you? It’s sick. You got no idea what’s real anymore.
Jack: Who does?!
He deserves those three slaps, and they were needed to snap him out of the fiction he’s created long enough for him to apologize. Shirley gets the truth and an overdue apology, but she still is unable to get through to him. It should be him leaving the car, though, not her.
Joey is also fed up with the lies, and he learns of an even bigger one; not from Jack, but from Shirley. Jack has disappointed those close to him in every way, yet he keeps going.
To see him get a win on this episode leaves a sour taste, especially since he achieves this through more lies.
Keeping up the charade for Buck (Frankie Faison) is what gets them off the platform before being incinerated by the rocket. Continuing to deceive his clients—who are honest, hardworking folks—is difficult to watch. And since we’ve been privy to the lie for most of the season, it is getting old now, too.
All the hoopla with the rocket even has Myrtle rethinking things, and as a result, whatever might’ve been sparking between her and Lester fizzles. It’s another downer moment in an episode full of them.
“The Gargon Mothership” is leaving me less bored with all that’s happening, but more annoyed that Jack carries on with some success.
I’m a bit fuzzy on exactly what his deal is with Mrs. Selwyn, but I do know that it irks me that she signs the contract. It plays like he’s hooked the big fish, but is he scamming her or are they going to scam others together?
The potential outcomes from their deal eludes me, but that doesn’t mean it interests me. It’s another dull part to a dull story, and doesn’t add much to the series overall.
I guess I’m just along for the ride, at this point, and it’s exactly what Shirley says to Joey—”that’s a pretty shitty ride.”
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Erin is a former script supervisor for film and television. She's an avid fan of middle aged actresses, dark dramas, and irreverent comedies. She loves to read actual books and X-Files fan fiction. Her other passions include pointing out feminist issues, shipping Mulder and Scully, and collecting pop culture mugs.
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You’ve nailed exactly why I find the series so frustrating. It is a chore to watch Jack continually deceive his clients, and I don’t really understand what the story wants from us. Are we supposed to be rooting for Jack as though he’s some kind of sympathetic Willy Loman character? Were we supposed to be relieved when he miraculously got away with it all, at least as far as his clients were concerned, in the end? What about the nice family with the baby living out of their van? And what about Myrtle, who seemed in some ways to be a feminist figure (albeit a bit unhinged) who refused to be scammed and pursued resolution only to finally change her mind when a refund became a possibility? How are we supposed to feel about Lester, one of the few characters in this series with morals, ultimately failing in his quest despite all the sacrifices he made to get there? Are we supposed to be glad his efforts to bring Jack to justice came to nothing? That’s not a rhetorical question – I honestly don’t know who we’re supposed to sympathize with here. Shirley is one of the more likable characters, but I can’t understand why she’s with Eddie, who drinks and gambles away their money, behaves erratically, loses his temper frequently and became insanely jealous when she danced with another man. Why does she want to go to the moon with this deadbeat? Why does she see a future with him? Somehow Herb and Betty became little more than comic relief in the final episodes, even though the material wasn’t particularly funny. There’s just no story here. It was a chore to watch and it made me uncomfortable in a way I don’t think it intended to. I just felt like I wanted it all to stop – I wanted everyone to work out what was going on. Instead everyone was somehow convinced by the arrival of a rocket in a scrapyard, and presumably we’re supposed to watch Jack maintaining the charade in a season 2, if there ever is one.
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