Download Lethal weapon season 2, Episode 2 below… First, a little recap….
Lethal Weapon Season 2 Episode 2
“What do normal people do?”
It still may be early into Lethal Weapon season 2, but it looks like the show is particularly interested in pushing these characters to new levels of growth and maturity. For a series that relies strongly on archetypal characters, it’s exciting to see Lethal Weapon getting ready to mix things up a little. Or at the least, have their characters asking questions about whether they should be mixing things up a little.
“Dancing in September” certainly has a lot of fun and doesn’t struggle with turning its crime of the week into something amusing. At the same time, it begins to pose some larger challenges for its characters, particularly in regard to moving on and “leaving the nest.” In Murtaugh’s case, that has to do with accepting his age and letting his son, RJ, move away to college. In the case of Riggs, it’s closing the door on the Miranda side of his life and figuring out who he is without that. Evidently, it’s someone who’s incredibly gung ho about life and normalcy.
Riggs amped up for therapy is pretty wonderful and provides some welcome development for the character. Riggs’ demeanor could certainly go in a number of directions after receiving relative closure over his wife’s murder. So the fact that he is so eager to make more progress and confront these recent feelings that have come forward is an exciting place for the character. With Riggs checking off the box in his closure column, he’s suddenly a man without a larger purpose or unresolved mission. In other words, he’s “normal.” This is not something that sits well with Riggs as his latest crisis sees him panicking over whether his hyperbolic personality is even capable of living a “normal” life.
All of this new ground is handled in a very fun, playful fashion. Riggs showing up at the scene of the crime in super cop mode as he continues to baffle expectations is also a refreshing spin for the character. Frankly, it’s a lot more entertaining to see him get butterflies in his stomach over jumping back into the dating pool than it is to watch him brood over his dead wife and be self-destructive. Clearly Riggs’ courtship of Karen Palmer is going to be a recurring presence through this season and “Dancing in September” lays a strong foundation for them. His growing obsession over Agent Palmer ends up consuming his latest case. The whole thing turns into a very sweet not-date between these two.
The case itself deals with the murder of a prominent plastic surgeon that slowly spills over into the Russian mob and a growing laundry list of felonies. The whole superficial world of vanity that’s present in the field of plastic surgery fits this show like a glove. It’s the perfect subset for Lethal Weapon to dig into for an episode. The cold open shows a hedonistic party where women are lining up for injections of Botox like they’re rails of coke and it’s pretty damn ridiculous. It also manages to immediately establish this heightened sandbox that the episode kicks around in.
This entire murder investigation gradually turns into some complicated foreplay between Murtaugh and Palmer………
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