As they walk out the door, Laurel notices the coat that she lent Billy sitting on the bar stool. Ruby tries to convince Billy that they should continue their journey, and despite everything that Billy said on their way to the bar about telling the truth, he relents. Yes, Billy and Ruby come into the bar for a drink. I’d rather be focused on Ruby and Billy then taking this detour.Īlso, Cloud may be a green detective, but they paint her as being totally incompetent just so they can get Laurel and Cloud at the same bar as Ruby and Billy. Podemski and PWB are great scene partners, but it feels weird to be introducing a new romantic plot like this in the second to last episode. Laurel asks Cloud to accompany her to a nearby bar and to continue their conversation there. Instantly, Cloud and Laurel’s interview turns into a meet cute. Both appear to be in over their head, and Deputy Cloud (Tamara Podemski) is sent to question Laurel, who discovered the body. While Ruby and Billy are having a heart to heart in the forest, we’re introduced to the police at the scene of the crime. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Laurel could have given Billy and Ruby a ride into town and the pair could have decided to go for a drink and the exact same sequence of events could have been achieved without trying to half-ass a suspenseful endpoint for “Jump.” Ruby and Billy’s mission to retrieve the phone does end up leading to the episode’s best scene, but we could have gotten to that conversation without a lazy plot contrivance. Really, having Ruby lose her phone and go back to retrieve it offers absolutely nothing for the story. When the series has tried to end on shocking cliffhangers, like Ruby realizing that she had left her phone and knowing that she has to go back to the scene of the crime to retrieve it, the following episode tidies the problem up in a matter of seconds. Instead of telling smaller narratives, most episodes feel like a 22-minute slice of a film. Part of Run’s slight descent in recent weeks can be attributed to the episodes’ lack of a compelling throughline. Run Season 1 Episode 6Īfter “Tell,” the penultimate episode of HBO’s Run, it has become abundantly clear that Vicky Jones’ concept for a series would have worked much better as a feature.
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