'Baptiste' Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Timeslip
After a disappointing first season, Baptiste landed feet first with the opener for Season 2, hitting the new season out of the park on the first round with future Dame Fiona Shaw as Tchéky Karyo's latest co-star. This season opened with a mystery that didn't just kidnap a child or two but took out her husband, disabled her, and (finally) found a way to entirely sidestep the child-sex-ring storylines that have haunted the series since its days as The Missing. But there is one big issue that the show is struggling with: Time.
Emma: A man who won't talk about his feelings. I didn't take you for a cliche.
At the top of last week's recap, I noted that the season began (as so many do now) in media res. It's the current fad in prestige TV; sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. In this case, I was ready to let Baptiste have it for the moment, as long as it wasn't going to abuse jumping around in time. But this week, unfortunately, doubled down on the interspersed timelines. On one level, it does keep the suspense up, as there are things that happened in the past fans haven't seen yet. But it's also irritating because it detracts from the show's better moments.
