'Baptiste' Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Predictability
The good news about Season 2 of Baptiste is that it is far more engaging than Season 1. That's almost entirely due to the guest cast, led by Fiona Shaw. Shaw's Emma Chambers is a complicated woman. She's someone desperate to be loved by her family while ignoring them for her career. She wants nothing more than to love and protect the people around her while being a genuinely terrible snob and generally treating other people as disposable when she's not outright abusing them. But though the characters this season are far more interesting, their story cannot claim the same.
Juszt: I drew you... like one of my french girls.
After being mentioned in passing on TV last week, the show's finally introduces the main antagonist, Kamilla Agoston (Gabriella Hámori), currently struggling with fertility treatments. A right-wing politician for the Hungary First party, Emma's initial take on her is that she's a laughable hypocrite, decrying immigration as the root of all poverty while living large on the funds provided by her uber-rich British husband Michael (Peter Sullivan). As this week proves, that's an underestimation and then some. It is not unlike Celia's underestimation of how hard it will be to convince Baptiste to give this all up and come home. Like Sara, he's an addict and one playing a dangerous game with his life.
