666 Park Avenue Recap: Ripped from the Headlines

Recaps

By SnoopK8 | Thursday, October 18, 2012 | 5:03 pm | 5 Comments
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Jane and Olivia are at lunch. Jane says that they moved there because Henry’s always wanted to live in NYC. Olivia tries to make Jane feel bad by saying that she moved for Henry, but Jane says she moved for “us.” They talk about dead Sasha, and Olivia says that she used to bring her to this restaurant. Then, out of nowhere, Olivia asks Jane how sex with Henry is. Uh. Ok. Jane says it’s “very nice” and “healthy,” but Henry thinks she’s crazy because she keeps talking about ghosts.

Sometimes I get that “not so alive” feeling

Jane says she keeps having vivid dreams or visions – she’s not sure what’s real – and it’s like the dead won’t stay dead. But then she realizes she’s talking about dead people in front of Olivia who is mourning her dead daughter. Awk.ward. Olivia is all, no worries, let’s drink some more.

At the newspaper office, someone compliments Annie on her “great piece” and says that Kandinsky guy sure sounds creepy. The colleague says Annie’s mom would be so proud of her. After the colleague leaves, Annie calls to print a retraction for an article that ran last month. She pulls up the obit for her mom and writes in that her mom was a published children’s author whose books sold millions of copies. Because lowly obit reporters always have the authority to just retract or correct anything they want without going through an editor. All of a sudden, Annie goes from being dressed in schlumpy dowdy lowly reporter clothes to a power outfit.

Enjoy the new threads while they last

Gavin and Henry have moved on to lunch at the club, and are sharing the room with the first deputy mayor, the DA and councilman Edwards, who Henry wants to work for. Gavin tells Henry to “imagine his luck” that the councilman is sitting right there, ripe for the pickin’. Gavin tells Henry to go talk to him, but Henry doesn’t want to bother him. Gavin says with that attitude, the only way Henry will ever get back to the club will be as an invited guest because he’s a big loser who will never get anywhere in life. Henry is sufficiently cowed inspired and gets up to go talk to the councilman. Gavin tells him not to come back without the job.

Henry goes up to the councilman and introduces himself. The councilman is all “that’s nice, get the hell out of here.”

He may give Henry the “shaft” now, but karma’s a bitch. (I’ll be here all week, folks!)

Henry looks back at Gavin for strength, and then tells the councilman he is going to lose the next election. The councilman is all, “aroo?” Henry goes to explain something about rezoning the Greenpoint project and some other shit I wasn’t paying attention to, but the bottom line is, if he’s not careful, the councilman will be unemployed in six months. The councilman invites Henry to have a seat.

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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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