Flashbacks to the precogs’ release into the world frail and impressionable, threw up some interesting avenues that were never explored. “Fiddler’s Neck” and “Honor Among Thieves” alerted me to what the previous episodes had squandered. Which the last two episodes saw fit to make right. Dash’s past experiences only become interesting when he’s together with Arthur and Agatha. Why choose to segregate her from the action as opposed to Dash, 2015’s drippiest TV protagonist? Rick Grimes might be fucked up but at least his charisma reeks of blood, sweat, and tears. Cut aways to Agatha (or if she’s too busy being interesting, Arthur) work as narrative punctuation, little breathers when Dash and Vega are presumably in their car travelling to a crime scene.
Their routine death-of-the-week storylines dominate the 43 minutes. The episodes aired to date - with a couple of brief momentary exceptions - march to the beat of Detective Vega’s drum, a cop working in secret with Dash to prevent murders. Her milk bath days turned her into a bored savant whose idea of fun in the real world is messing with people’s heads. x Agatha has been relegated to the sidelines and carries the most interesting plot threads so far. The problem is, their individual screen time is shrinking as the audience’s demand for their presence is going. Released from their lifelong incarceration, Dash, Arthur, and Agatha’s freedom in a new, scary world allows for a triptych of layered responses to their circumstance.
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