The racers chow down on fresh road kill in the first pit stop on the Blood Drive.
ThisBlood Drivereview contains spoilers.
We are into race day 2, which skids into a pit stop in the middle of Arizona.
Pixie Swallow is a fun town.
Its a party town with a mean cuisine.
The look is slightly different from last week, which had the gritty veneer of west coast urban blight.
They run on human blood.
This implies how far things have fallen since the nationwide drought.
All dystopian future stories need some kind of villainous cause.
InPlanet of the Apes, man blew everything up to make way for the damned, dirty apes.
World War 4 precludedA Boy and His Dog.
A revolution in the 13th District brought onThe Hunger Games.
Here the cause is environmental greed.
The national disaster was a windfall for Heart Enterprises.
We get to see another side of Slink this episode and we saw quite a few last week.
We saw the rebel without a cause, leading a revolution on hot wheels.
Now we see hes just an employee, but the best kind a company could hope for, disgruntled.
This is the kind of guy you really want in your company.
So ambitious he is lethal to the competition as he slides scrumptiously on office lobby blood.
That rage is not exactly righteous.
Slink is the perfect anti-hero, even when hes brown-nosing, maybe especially when hes brown-nosing.
During production notes, the reluctant yes man takes every criticism on the chin.
He is diligent, and obviously paid his dues.
The hero is just getting started.
Officer Arthur Baily knows the importance of being earnest.
This is a cop steadfastly on his beat.
He even endures indulgent futuristic prank voice messages that go on forever.
The hero is also hard at work.
He goes through great pains to show off great pains and even greater pleasures.
The builders couldnt make the same mistake twice, so they pumped out a few.
Marama Corlett is mesmerizing as Aki.
She kicks in most of the movement herself.
Perpetually perky, Aki is almost as bubbly as a Powerpuff girl.
All of the acting is stylized and as over-the-top as any cartoon character needs.
Its deeper than Caligulas soft spot, which is for dogs much more than people.
The Gentleman is the driving force in the partnering, but is obviously above his mentally-proficient mechanic.
I love it when he cant quite stomach the food.
The Scholar probably has the greatest arc of the episode.
He is the most heartbreaking character on the show so far.
He shares the smallest, most intimate scenes of the series so far with Arthur.
He probably has the most heart on the show.
His stammering delivery has the most pathos.
The plot is immaterial, but the patterns are now set.
Welcome to Pixie Swallow serves up a lot of road kill to chew on.
And next week, we detour.
Rating:
4 out of 5
