666 Park Avenue Recap: Ripped from the Headlines

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By SnoopK8 | Thursday, October 18, 2012 | 5:03 pm | 5 Comments
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Hey Gasmii, 

Please forgive my tardiness this week. Work’s been a bitch. Maybe I should ask Gavin to help me out with a new gig.

Previously on 666 Park Avenue: Jane and Henry were impressed with their new digs. Gavin asked Jane to help restore the Drake to its former glory. Brian and stalker/neighbor Alexis did the nasty. Jane became obsessed with the basement and the secret DOOR down there.

We pick up where we left off last week, with Jane being trapped in a room after investigating the mysterious, formerly boarded-up door. Using her cell phone for light, she notices a bunch of creepy old dolls, which obviously signify evil because nothing is more malevolent than a bunch of creepy old dolls. She hears a voice whisper something that sounds like “Cohen” but is probably “go away” and then something grabs her leg. Jane starts to panic, but since it’s only the beginning of the episode, she is suddenly rescued by Henry. She tells him that she heard voices and he says it was probably just voices in the lobby coming down through the air vent. Jane is skeptical, but she lets him take her upstairs, but not before asking if he thinks she’s crazy. He says yes. As they leave, something runs by behind them. It looks like a little kid. A minute later, we see a little girl hiding and holding a doll. Hmm. Is it a ghost girl or a real girl?

Real devil spawn or imaginary devil spawn?

Meanwhile, Brian, who apparently still doesn’t have a day job, is hanging out in the laundry area with a woman whose name we learn is Annie. They talk about the writing game and it turns out Annie is a frustrated newspaper obituary writer who went to school to be a “real” journalist to write “real” stories. A real journalist wouldn’t need a degree for that, but whatever. Also, apropos of nothing, her mom wrote a bunch of children’s stories but never published them. Conversation turns to Louise and the demon elevator attack and it turns out that Louise’s pain went away almost as soon as she returned home from the hospital. As Annie leaves, she promises to check in on Louise later. Brian stays down there with his laptop, presumably to search the “stalker chicks who disrobe in front of windows” section of Craigslist.

Gavin catches up with Annie in the lobby and she bitches to him about being just a lowly obit writer. He tells her to tap into her creativity and says maybe there is “something” he can do to help. He gets his signature sinister ™ look, so you know something bad is going to happen.

I soooo own you

Annie is in her way-too-nice-for-a-lowly-obit-writer apartment writing a lowly obit. So she’s like a freelance obit writer who can work from home? Whatever, show. The stiff of the hour is some poor schmuck named Oscar Diebold. But Annie was inspired by Gavin’s pep talk, so instead of writing the facts, she starts making up a story that Diebold actually did covert ops for the CIA during the cold war and captured a rogue former KGB agent named “Kandinsky,” a named she picked from an art history book.

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5 Comments

  1. 1
    Lizbot
    Posted October 18, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    I liked the episode, but it ended a little abruptly for me. And there’s a couple of things I hope the writer will explain sometime soon as well.

    1) What is with the mishmash of residents, from filthy rich to near-dirt poor? And I’ll say it again: a luxury building with a basement laundry room? Makes no damn sense

    2) I hope they’ll come up with a rationale for why a supposedly average to above average characters like Jane and Henry would be stupid enough to enter a creepy secret room in a basement without making any attempt to prop open the door after an incident when one of the two said characters was trapped in the same said room after having said door mysteriously slam shut behind them. I don’t get while she’d enter the damn basement any time at all (at least not by herself), but I’m willing to let that one go. Hopefully the explanation for why they would be so stupid about the door will also cover the issue with them not reading the lease….

  2. 2
    Lizbot
    Posted October 18, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    Oh yeah, and I don’t think they’re going to kill off Annie that fast. I think Gavin has bigger plans for her.

  3. 3
    sagittariuskim sagittariuskim
    Posted October 18, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    I was wondering when were going to get a creepy ghost child.

    And now we know Alexis isn’t that whorey she won’t strip for just anybody.

    And Jane continues to annoy me.

    I really want more of Olivia’s and Gavin’s back story. How much does Olivia know about what Gavin is and does?

  4. 4
    timgunnssister timgunnssister
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 8:31 am

    In the premiere, Gavin explained there are some rent controlled units in the building so they have tenants from blue collar to the super-rich. They had to do that for the wealth of stories this needs.

    Starting to feel a little ‘LOST/The River’ish to me. And Jane is annoying and Henry is seriously dim.

  5. 5
    Lizbot
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 6:25 pm

    @timgunnssister: thanks for the explanation. I missed/forgot that part of the premiere. That also answers my question about why they would have a basement laundry room in a luxury apartment!

    I never got into the River, but I totally don’t mind the Lostishness of the show. It’s got enough of the spirit of Lost without totally mimicking it that it fills the void that Lost left for me after it’s disappointing series finale.

    I do hope that they give Terry O’Quinn the chance to exercise his range of acting chops though. The thing I loved about his character on Lost is that he got to play the range from pathetic and vulnerable to omnipotent and menacing. Maybe some flashbacks to what Gavin was before he became the all-powerful soul-slave master that he is today? But they had have to be careful not to make it too John Locke-like.

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