CHLOE KING Gets Out a Bit
THE NINE LIVES OF CHLOE KING
Season 1, Episode 5: “Girls Night Out”
OK, there is officially a template for the writers of this show. 40 minutes of exposition, 3 minutes of action. At night, when they can use the blue HMI lights.
This week, we meet twin sisters, Lilah and Nikki, from South America. They’re Mai, from another pride (remember they’re cat people), and they’ve come up to San Fran to check out this Uniter they’ve all been hearing about. They want to introduce Chloe to the wonders of Mai hedonism. They’re in the “humans are inferior” camp, and they have no qualms about killing humans for sport. That’s the A-story.
B-story, I think, is the Amy-Paul relationship, where Amy is feeling a little put out that Paul isn’t doing whatever-it-is he’s not doing, and Chloe gives Paul some fantastic advice: “You’re a couple. You’ve got to take it to the next level.” This from a 16-year-old? Oh, wait. The 16-year-old who’s being pursued by the college boy. Never mind.
[You remember in the recap to the first episode, when I said I’m most definitely not the target demographic for this show?]
Speaking of Kitty Hat Brian, he has a sit-down with dear ol’ Dad this week, and Dad says “You’re going back to school. No argument. Done deal.” Because Valentina scratched the photo of Brian when she threatened Rezzer last week. So Dad’s decided to protect the lad by sending him back to school.
Of course, Brian can’t do that, because he hasn’t solved his mother’s murder yet. And he’s got this thing for a 16-year-old. Does this creep out anyone else? Really? He’s in college! She’s SIXTEEN! What. The.
But Brian comes up with a way to get around the whole “no argument” law from Dad: go to work for him! Which will get him into the Secret Lair so he can find out who killed Mom. And stay in town to hang out with the sixteen-year-old. Seriously. Is this normal? Somebody help me out here.
OK. Back to the A-story: hot twins from South America teaching Chloe to be a hedonistic better-than-puny-humans Mai. They take her clubbing, which gives us the obligatory slow-motion camera-starts-at-the-feet shot while they strut their stuff.
Now, you’d think Chloe had learned something from the first time she went to a club. Remember Xavier the Red Shirt? And how is it that the twins from South America can tell the bouncer “It’s OK. They’re with us.” How does the bouncer know the twins from South America? That makes it OK for him to not do his job?
So, Chloe starts hanging out with the hot twins, making her Watcher Jessica very nervous and skittish – like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs (couldn’t pass it up) – and Amy tells Jessica that she’s acting like “the chaperone” instead of one of the girls.
Chloe eventually figures out what the hot twins are all about, how they think humans are puny and deserve what they’ve got coming, but Chloe’s not having any. Which disappoints the hot twins terribly. Thus leading to the 3 minute fight scene in the blue HMI light at night.
I was disappointed that Valentina (Alicia Coppola) wasn’t in this episode. But there were hot girls on motorcycles. Is this a fair trade?
