This is quite late because I watched the Emmys last night instead of Rubicon, but I'm sure AMC wont mind because they had a pretty good night as it was with Mad Men winning Best Drama Series again and Breaking Bad taking home acting awards for Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. It would be somewhat hard to imagine Rubicon earning the same critical acclaim at next year's awards, but I don't think it's unfair to say that its not too far behind those two shows in terms of excellence. At least in my opinion.
"Look to the Ant" revolved around the various adventures of several characters over the course of a night. One wasn't terribly interesting, but others had me vastly entertained.
The not-so-interesting one involved Miles flirting with a fellow (nerdy) API employee who he recruits to translate his audio broadcast of George Beck's son's wedding. Outside of some vague discussions about a "foundation" for which one of the female guests had apparently accepted money, the main crux of these scenes seemed to be to set up Miles with this woman in the future. To be perfectly honest, I had forgotten all about his marriage problems until these scenes, and I think there's a reason why. Character depth is one thing, but I just don't have it in me to care all that much about Miles' personal life.
But as I say this, I found myself much more interested in Maggie's booty call plotline, and no not just because I'm a pervert. (I'm not saying that I'm not, I'm just saying that's not why.) Part of this is that Maggie is made to be like more of an important character than she has shown to be. More insight into her lifestyle is almost a necessity at this point.
Yet in spite of all this, we didn't get much about her connection to Kale, but nonetheless I liked it. Jessica Collins pulled off being condescendingly desperate with her Scrabble-playing classmate pretty perfectly. She's been earmarked as Will's future love interest and her kicking out Scrabble-Boy immediately after Will shows up unannounced makes for a nice segue to that going forward.
Speaking of great segues, here's where I talk about the best storyline: Will's himself. When Kale invited him over to dinner, he was (probably brightly) unsure of himself, but it led to a surprising new ally. Kale wants to help Will on his quest for answers, but he can't directly. Instead, he'll occasionally nudge him in the right direction.
He starts by giving him the name, Edward Roy (aka Senator Clay Davis) who runs a security company owned by a man connected to Tom Rhumor. But with this new allegiance comes a realization to Will that he is being surveyed at all times. And sure enough, his apartment is filled with bugs. But after a tense trip to an internet cafe that culminates with him pulling a gun on another man that is following him, he reports back to Kale about all of Edward Roy's shadiness.
Of course, we don't know how much we can trust Kale. Hell, I wouldn't even be remotely shocked if he was the one who planted all of the bugs in Will's house. But I still have a gut feeling that he wants to find out a lot of the same information Will is looking for, if only for his own agenda. Remember, he watched the meeting between Bloom, Spangler, and Roy pretty coldly last week.
I feel like I always get to Katherine's storylines last, but she met with the widow of the college professor friend of her husband's that she learned about last week. It's hard to gauge what we ascertained from these scenes, but four-leafed clover makes another appearance, reminding us again that our ultimate goal is to find out what that fourth leaf represents.
Lingering Thoughts
- Am I the only one who was reminded of Talbot from True Blood when we met Kale's significant other?
- Yeah, that's really all the lingering thoughts I had. Oh well.
OVERALL GRADE: B+
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