Moonlight Episode 13

At the end of the episode when Mick and Beth kissed on the rooftop (at night like a good vampire show) the wife exclaimed “Finally!” to which I responded; “They kissed like 27 episodes ago”. I’m sad to report that I felt let down again by these 42 minutes of television. I know I’ve mentioned this as a nagging problem for me before but Buffy/Angel did this episode much better.

Mick was not human; he was faking it, because it was in fact a temporary reprieve. That alone makes his “sacrifice” seem less noble to me from the get go. Coralline “died” and became a vampire again, or her girlfriend turned her and saved her life. The cure is a farce and the only two people who were really fooled by it were Mick and Beth.

Josef once again proved to be a bright spot in this episode “siring” Mick though when he asked Mick for forgiveness for turning him my eyes rolled a bit. I really do think this show could have succeeded with a Jason Dohring as Mick and Alex O’Loughlin as Josef. O’Loughlin seems to come from the Rocky Balboa School of acting and it is just not working for me.

I would like to commend the show for keeping the same hacker for a few episodes in a row. I did notice that he switched from Guitar Hero to Rock Band in this episode, which makes him a much cooler vampire/hacker/gamer than Mick gave him credit for. Also I am impressed that they are keeping the same vampire at the coroners week after week.

One major flaw with the episode was the fact that Josef is supposed to be dead to the outside world. Why was Maureen interviewing him on the phone and possibly meeting with him? They even had scenes in Josef’s burned out office building! How did that get looked over?