Vida
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After a fantastic pilot,Vidacements its compelling and confident sense of place in this charged second episode.
Shes inextricable from the shows ethos and emotional storytelling.
I could never do that to Vida, she says.
You waited to dump me until after I ate your ass, Lyn says.
Then Lyn goes back to Johnny.
Even before he says it himself, its clear that this is a pattern for them both.
This time, she cries after sex.
Shes really gone, she says.
Johnny, her mother, and the neighborhood are all knotted together parts of her past she holds onto.
The visual details that go intoVidas controls are impeccable.
Take, for example, the clocks that hang in evil real-estate developer Nelsons companys lobby.
That detail humorously sets the scene at Nelsons office, where Emma goes to talk to him about options.
(Someone probably should have listened to Eddy just saying!)
