Legends of Tomorrow Season 4 – Episode 6: Tender Is The Nate

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Legends of Tomorrow Season 4 Episode 6

It's been a minute, but damn it, it's good to be back and with a show that has not failed to beat. And there is something to say for a break – I think I have been watching this show every week for two years now, I think, while television has hardened to become a frenzy around us. So, coming back from this extended time away from the M Series gave me the opportunity to experience the experience differently, which helped me understand some of what makes it so strong . In a practical way, all these features were perfectly clear in "Tender Is The Nate".

Legends of tomorrow is a show where the actors and the technical team have the greatest confidence in their characters. So often in series that last a while, you see writers and actors trying to force the action by inducing someone to behave in ways that do not behave like a character, just like to make the plot. Despite the many opportunities to do so, I have not seen it once in the first six episodes of the year. Even tonight, placing Nate next to his old man could turn him into a pathetic clown into an intimidating toad. Instead, he is a little shy and intimidated before finding his voice and growing up.

Which brings us to the next point: the series finds a way to grow its characters in an organic way without sacrificing what makes them interesting. They never close the potential of history, but expand it. Mick is a perfect example: "Mick wrote a fantasy ripper of bodice shredders" was a big disposable gag last season. They turned him into a character moment for him last week, since he accepted himself as an artist (and they added a little comment on the fact not to judge too much when it comes to defining the art). And then this week, they come back in jokes, first with Woke Mick ("is not it [gay Paris] impolitically correct? "may be the line of the night" followed by Mick and Hemingway deciding to go to be men together.

The show is also just funny like hell. "I'm an adult superhero … I'm trying to play lute for a minotaur" is a very good runner-up, and Mona reveals that her fallback plan if she was working for the Time Office does work is d & # Go to Yale's law. It's a nice touch for his character and an absolutely wild burn on the law school's industrial complex.

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Make work humor because the team knows the overflows with which they do not care. This is part of Ray's fourth break in the wall, which is perfectly adapted to the character, but it is also a good way to show off their work. Think of the number of tropes in the episode tonight: Nate discovers Charlie on Waverider because his boss / dad wants to go on a ride, so the team tries to move him away from the lab so as not to cross. . That's at least two sitcom episodes and we're not even in the first 10 minutes of the show – the Mona / Nora / Ava and Sara girls' night out trying to keep from getting caught in the Ava's office for noon are probably two separate b parcels of sitcom, too. But none of them felt like a free wheel (although I recognize legends sometimes falls prey to this).

I could go on – the heart and the secret message behind the series (this episode was secretly about the reform of the criminal justice, do not tell anyone); the fact that this is mainly a show about well-adjusted and friendly people (this is the Parks & Rec of the arrow!); the volume of jokes or the fact that everyone in the series seems to have a contagious breath making it – all of these things make it a weekly destination. But seeing what I saw while watching six episodes a week actually made me want to go back and drool over things that I've already seen, just to catch things that I did not see. I missed in a new format.

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