Moonlight Episode 9

Warning, these thoughts are very spoiler heavy for Moonlight Episode 9.

You

Have

Been

Warned

Coralline came back, found a way to become human, and reveled all to Mick just in time for Beth to drive a stake through her now human heart! That’s what I’m talking about! When the drama is good the little things (like the fact that Mick and Coralline spent the entire day in the sun) can be forgiven. It took 9 episodes but I’m thinking this show finally hit its stride.

The storyline with Mick and Morgan following the cheating wife was fairly boring but everything else in the episode really did seem to work for me. Also, I was happy to see Josef again, if only for a brief while. His scenes with Beth were some of her best work. Maybe this show would have been better with the actors playing Josef and Mick in a role reversal (the wife disagrees).

I wonder if the sudden uptick in story quality and movement has anything to do with the writers strike… Nope, the first twelve episodes of Moonlight were made before the writers strike. If memory serves me correctly the writers would not have been able to do re-write starting on this episode or the next one. That means that the strike could only have hurt this particular episode rather than help.