American Gigolo
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Should it ruminate on Julians childhood?
His time in prison?
Should it emphasize the anger and tension that ought to exist between Detective Sunday and him?
Or dig further into Sundays own past, too?
Maybe instead its time to see how Colin is doing.
Hey, what about that Lisa girl Julian dated in high school that died?
Is Isabelle throwing any cool sex parties this week?
Sunday Girl touches upon all of this, but never gets deep enough to really say anything.
It isnt the first time thatAmerican Gigolohas avoided focusing on some development that seems obviously worthy of talking about.
And to the shows credit, the disjointedness is in many ways appropriate.
Briefly, however an elderly neighbor takes him under his wing and offers to teach him about cars.
Extremely violent, to the point where he nearly kills a bully with a stone.
It turns out, he is actually capable of violence, and perhaps doesnt trust himself for that reason.
All of this also potentially highlights something important about the decision to cast Detective Sunday as a woman.
With his male bullies, hes able to bash their faces in with rocks.
With the adult woman who molests him, hes powerless.
It seems plausible, then, that Sundays own womanhood is pivotal in shaping Julians life, too.
We also see how Sundays own circumstances led to Julians imprisonment.
The night of his arrest, Sunday is dealing with her brother having a near-fatal overdose in her apartment.
Julian rightfully begins to express his disdain.
Last time I sat across from you I got fifteen years.
What did you get, Detective?
Did you get a new office?
All of this jail/prison stuff is wrapped up pretty quickly, though.
With this missing piece, Sunday now increases her suspicions towards Isabelle.
Whatever reason shes there, it doesnt seem shes only interested in a friendly visit.
Isabelle throws a freaky elite S&M party, but we only see the absolute tamest bits.
It actually looks deeply boring.
This show should have way more sex, and this would have been a good time to include it.
Detective Sunday plays Wordle!
I bet she does it on her iPad.
