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Here is our review of Aquarius season 1 episode 6.

Hodiak is tending to the knuckles he broke on Charles Mansons face last week.

Manson doesnt want the women to think he has any weakness.

The corporate mouthpiece is a delicate piece of work for a cutthroat litigator.

But then we see that its just coming out of an upturned wine bottle.

The wife tortures him.

They talk over each other in unconvincing angst.

The arguments between the wife and the lawyer are so forced.

The two actors seem as unattached to the words as they are to each other.

Were looking at the Manson family kids as brainwashed hippies but the parents are conditioned zombies.

Because of Ken, Manson knows things about the RNC which threaten that undead existence.

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Manson was a pimp and a high class pimp.

All the best wanted what Charlie had to offer and you get the feeling it wasnt just the girls.

Charlie was building a scene.

He got popped for pimping and got off without too much fuss.

Ed Cutler (Chance Kelly) is an interesting foil to Hodiak.

They are obviously friendly, the care for each other and they enjoy their competition.

Too much is orbiting Samson Hodiak, he is the fulcrum point of all the threads onAquarius.

He solves everyones problems.

Hes solving racism, sexism, overaged hippies and the Vietnam War.

Hes going to break.

you’re free to only stretch Duchovny so far.

Todays headlines never get old.

They were old to begin with.

Officer Charmain Tully (Claire Holt) is tasked with taking the statement from a beating victim.

It could happen today.

The cops venture to steer her off course, because who wants trouble with a football star?

Aquariusis nothing if not ambitious, if safely so.

This city precinct is in the throes of one of the biggest changes in national consciousness in history.

People still didnt like mixed neighborhoods.

Duchovny keys the neighbors car and he spills everything.

The white haired bigot who doesnt hate colored people all but confesses.

He gives name, rank, serial number and goes short of a few addresses.

As Joe Pescis Tommy DeVito might say inGoodfellas, he wouldnt hold up under questioning.

Most people are just dying to let it out, even without the cost of a touchup.

Milauna Jackson really lets go during this episode.

Kristin may turn out to be the best written woman character on the show.

Charleys story about his abandonment is revelatory onscreen.

The younger Butano gives Charlie a present and gets clobbered for it by Roy, the motorcycle enforcer.

Dirt and sand all over his nice Italian shoes.

That is not a good start with that branch of crime who takes their shoes so seriously.

Gethin Anthony is on a painful journey from being afraid to being the thing that makes people afraid.

A Whiter Shade of Pale was written by David Reed and directed by Michael Offer.

Rating:

3.5 out of 5