Surface Season 2, episode 3, “Kintsugi” is the episode that Apple TV + has learned from the start. There are no huge explosive scenes or major reveaments, but that makes it ironically more intense. With the cat out of the bag, the series shows its hand and arrives at the big moment that viewers have been waiting since the announcement of season 2.

“Kintsugi” mainly takes care of the revelation at the end of season 2, episode 2. Sophie Ellis is now on the rear foot and chooses to answer by going to the offensive. Meanwhile, Callum Walsh is still there to invent things as you go, which is not the best way to approach things either. And the episode shows what is happening when confronted with confrontation, including each other. It raises a big question: will someone really be a winner in this area?

Surface season 2, episode 3 connects the points of season 1

The public learns how James returned to the photo

The first minutes of “Kintsugi” serve as a bridge between the end of Surface Season 1 and the conclusion of season 2, episode 2. They take place in San Francisco, a week before current events, and reveal how James Ellis learned the location of his ex-wife. James is seen meeting an IT expert who shows him what Sophie has done with all her money. The pirate encourages him to speak to his wife; When James admits that he cannot find her, the other man follows her in England in about 30 seconds, and even shows her a photo of Google Street View of Sophie’s building. James then spends time watching Sophie remotely. It is almost laughable on the speed with which it meets – but not as funny as the way James enters the Huntleys festival.

After all the strange security precautions that Sophie had to cross, all that James has to do is to buy a costume, then to tell the security guards in the parking lot he left his Bugatti Veyron inside. This is definitely a weak point in the episode, but forgiven because Surface Try to withdraw her exhibition and because of what she says about the character of James. He is not in bed with the Huntleys or suddenly draws a magical rhythm of all access to his sleeve. He’s still fair from Sophie who checked the ex-husband. But now, viewers are capable of grasping at least one money from what James has done, and essentially closing the book of season 1. There is no longer a look back and waiting for Sophie’s past to catch her, which is an effective narration because there is only eight episodes in season 2.

In addition, the fact that these scenes are from the point of view of James (even if they must be) adds a little careful thing in season 2, episode 3. The story of the season began from Sophie’s point of view, which was one of the interesting things on this subject. However, Surface Gradually fell from this to a more traditional dramatic configuration. Directing the episode with James makes him feel like his own individual, not just the ex. May viewers like him be one of the things that episode 3 leaves in the air.

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Surface lets James Face Sophie – with excellent results

Season 2, episode 3 is motivated by the character, not the mystery

The confrontation between Sophie and James is one of the last scenes of Surface Season 2, episode 3 – And it’s worth waiting. The show would have felt incomplete without the return of James; Sophie can’t just skip the city (or actually jump the whole country) after what she did. The entire premise of the show is accountable with its past, and that includes what deserves a place on the list of memorable television breaks. When the two characters are finally face to face, the actors Gugu Mbatha-raw and Oliver Jackson-Cohen subtly remind the public that it was two people who once loved each other, even if Sophie and James themselves do not remember that.

It is the most important scene of the whole episode, if not the series, because it says a lot about the characters and even on the series itself. They are both angry against each other, especially after having spent most of “kintsugi” to play a strange cat and mouse game that understands Sophie to take a photo with an expensive necklace to attract the attention of James and James droping a bag of Sophie’s old personal effects so that she can find. It is quite clear that there is no chance of reconciliation (which is good, the show does not need a romance to function). But there is also a clear feeling of despair on their two parts. She wants him to understand where she comes from; He just wants an explanation.

None of them leaves the conversation happy, and James warns Sophie that he has much more in reserve for her. It is a terrible timing, because Callum Walsh needs Sophie to pay the file with his accusations against the Huntley, because her other witness is now dead. Callum is always a apathetic figure of episode 3 – trying to move someone or anything. His biggest development is that Sophie gives her the location of her archive box, so he now has access to all the recordings she makes. Callum is his worst enemy who continues to dig one more and deeper hole, as “Kintsugi” points out when he tries to bribe the hotel bartender to obtain information about who delivered Sophie a bottle of champagne. He has a spirit to a track, which will cause him even more problems … and will Sophie help him when it happens?

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The surface means that viewers reconsider Quinn Huntley, once again

He is always a bad guy, but maybe not as bad

On the other side of history, Surface Season 2, episode 3 launches another curve with regard to Quinn Huntley. During the first in season 2, Quinn was presented as the rich and typical rich philanthropist wishing to reconstruct the reputation of his family. Episode 2 pivoted this to show exactly what lengths it was ready to go, to protect his reputation. But episode 3 swings the pendulum in the other direction in a key scene between Quinn and his lawyer Richard Price.

Richard presents himself in Quinn’s office to inform him of the death of Phoebe Davis – and Quinn is really surprised, wanting to know what happened to him. In addition, when Richard asked if Quinn caused the death of Phoebe, he denies him vehemently. It is directly opposed to that episode 2 wanted viewers to think and suggest that Quinn has a certain level of morality. This actually makes him more interesting than most of the villains on television, because fans cannot just predict what he will do. If only Surface would give the same characterization to his fiancée Grace, who continues to obtain brief extracts from existence here and there.

Surface Season 2, episode 3 places its characters instead of continuing to drive to the current mystery of William Huntley and Sophie’s mother. It is almost like a small recording with the main actors before the half of the season. This means that the episode has very little shock value and could be too silent for certain viewers, but this calm allows these character moments to pass. And at the end of the hour, fans will rethink if Quinn is entirely a villain, if Sophie is worth a rooted and what they are supposed to feel for James. It is a solid food for reflection.

Surface streams on Friday Apple TV +.

Surface season 2, episode 3

Release date

July 28, 2022

Network

Apple TV +

Directors

Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Jennifer Morrison

Writers

Leigh Ann Biety, Erica L. Anderson, Raven Jackson, Martín Zimmerman, Tony Saltzman, Dan Lee West

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  Gujo Mbatha-Raw

  Sophie Ellis

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  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  James Ellis

Advantages and disadvantages

• The public finally obtains the confrontation between Sophie and James they wanted.
• Information is revealed on Quinn which makes him a more interesting antagonist.

• Grace is still very underused so far.