The Last Great episode of the Pretender is called The toad Trip. Jarrod has sent Ms. Parker, Sydney and Broots on a journey of discovery into the past and has an equally adventurous leg of his voyage in store for him.
Or the next to last. All three main characters from The Centre run around on Jarrod's wizard of Oz adventure. Despite her complaining Ms. Parker seems to trust that whatever they will find at the end of this yellow brick road will be worth the mystery. Sydney seems almost giddy at the though that. "Perhaps Jarrod wants us to run around like rats in a maze" and is actually enthusiastically jumping through these hoops even if that's all they are. Maybe he feels that he owes Jarrod this after keeping so many things secret for so many years. Broots shows more emotion than he has ever shown when not talking about his daughter. And by the end the three of them are just standing there like "Jarrod has a point."
Jarrod has an eye opening encounter but about more than just romance. He goes with what conclusion only makes sense or is likely - that the girl is a criminal and the cop is chasing her because he's a cop not because he's her boyfriend. but the one time he makes a conclusion based solely on the facts and the evidence- rather than the person or his own perceptions he is seriously almost disastrously wrong. He jumped to the same conclusions as anyone and realizes for the first time how trapped and alone people can be even when they do have a home. . Jarrod learns he should have trusted her, and goes with her down a journey of discovery, life and of course romance for both of them. Zoe and Jarrod seem to be each-others first honest and deeply committed relationship. So of course they are as close to soul mates as can get. And it actually works. But Jarrod still leaves because while no longer searching, he is still running.
I'll start posting my reviews here on this blog. I don't use it nearly as much, and I'm kind of repurposing it. My own personal Rate it All. Reviews, summaries, analysis of any TV show, movie, episode, restaurant or even church denomination I feel a strong familiarity with or opinion about. Hopefully I won't do single episodes on individual blog posts. But I might end up doing that. All episodes of a given show on one blog post makes more sense to me. And Pretender is naturally going to be the first show I do a blog post for. I have about six episodes reviewed and I'm about to post them. But this was just to get started.
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