Timeless: S2 E7 Mrs Sherlock Holmes
I’m not going to lie it’s been such a long time since I watched this episode, but I can’t watch more Timeless until I review the last two episodes and I really want to watch more Timeless. In this episode the gang go back to stop the murder of Alice Paul who was instrumental in the passing of the 19th amendment. They don’t succeed, but they must figure out who did the murder with the help of Mary Grace Quackenbos, a famous female detective (except she wasn’t called a detective because this is the past.)
This episode was fun, I like that Timeless caters to one issue at a time. The last episode was a race episode, this one is a lady episode for ladies. It’s nice that they do a subtle hint at a love triangle between Flynn, Lucy and Logan in this particular episode. Women are fighting for independence from men, while Flynn and Logan fight over which one of them Lucy belongs to. SPOILER ALERT: She’s not just some prize to be won.
I have some problems with the killing off of important historical figures, but after that abysmal series of Doctor Who where the characters only visited time periods of deep sociological significance but the writers were too scared to actually touch them, kudos to Timeless for being more brutal with history. What’s the point of a time travel show where the characters don’t have any impact on the way events unfold? That’s no fun at all! Trust me, Doctor Who did that for like 8 episodes.
I liked the twist where nasty, nasty Rittenhouse agent Emma decides to join forces with the gang because actually it turns out that women being able to vote is never awesome. Even if you’re in Rittenhouse that sucks. It’s nice to see the implications of the organisation explored in more detail, this brief crisis of faith gives more depth to Emma as a character. So far she’s just been a violent lackey who kicks things and shouts angry stuff (actually now that I think of it, it’s nice to see a woman as a bullheaded minion - more of this please, women can be assholes too), it’s nice to see her beginning to question the organisation she has been fighting for so blindly.
Very early on in the episode she tries to speak to a man, who then promptly tells Flynn to “Control his wife.” It’s good to have Wyatt and Lucy’s relationship confronted a little more in this episode with the backdrop of the suffragette movement. This is a good way of pointing out that Lucy’s character is much more than just a love interest who can be passed from character to character. Like the other women shown in the episode, Lucy has agency and can make her own choices. Even if she was Flynn’s wife it wouldn’t be his job to control her, she can control her damn self.
Another highlight of this episode is that for one scene Flynn is wearing a really nice jumper. If anyone knows where to get that jumper... Let me know, I want that jumper.