Critic’s Score: 3.8 / 5.0
3.8
Billie Matalon returned to Colter’s life throughout Tracker Season 2 Episode 3, and later within the hour, she had a line that will have summed up the entire affair: This received tremendous bizarre.
Now, it wouldn’t be Tracker with out a curveball or two, and this one had a twist you’d by no means see coming.
And I don’t say that to imply it’s a superb factor.
Whereas Tracker Season 2 Episode 1 had a extra simple lacking individuals case, the follow-up installment concerned potential extraterrestrials, and this one had us studying in regards to the darkish world of biohacking blood donations.
Yeah.
Look, there are a variety of reveals which can be just like Tracker, at the least within the sense that their important objection every week is to resolve a thriller. And so they have to face out, proper? There can’t simply be rudimentary circumstances of the week.
However blood donations, biohacking, and blood serum electrolyte conversations?
Take a look at me agreeing with Billie; it’s getting bizarre.
Billie’s return was the spotlight of the hour in case you’re a Billie fan, that’s. We final noticed the willy reward-seeker throughout Tracker Season 1 Episode 6. And her look was a bit polarizing.
Some folks have been right here for the banter and flirting between Colter and his rival, with whom he had a sophisticated relationship. However others didn’t really feel the connection, nor have been they excited by seeing Colter have a companion apart from Reenie or the others inside his circle.
Perhaps I’m only a sucker for real-life cuteness that spills over onto the display as a result of I assumed Justin Hartley and Sofia Pernas have been nice collectively. There’s an apparent consolation there, seeing as they’re married, and it translated into an on-screen dynamic that felt lived in.
You would purchase that these two had a historical past, that there was A LOT of pressure between them, and that issues have been left unsaid.
However whereas that first episode dove into a variety of that and arrange a will-they/received’t-they, that wasn’t the case right here. They forgo a lot of that banter and flirting and as an alternative fell into step as companions, with Colter taking the lead.
I’ve to think about those that weren’t thrilled with Billie total didn’t care an excessive amount of for the non-public facet of the case, which noticed Billie returning to the hometown that shunned her as a way to do one thing good (and possibly change her legacy?).
We don’t know almost sufficient about Billie to get too overly invested in her private enterprise, however seeing how merciless folks have been all through the hour was loads, particularly contemplating as soon as we discovered the basis explanation for the city’s hatred was towards her mom, not her.
However I digress; the case was about Eric Dobbs, a promising highschool pitcher who up and vanished.
It felt like we have been headed towards a boyfriend and girlfriend being combined up with the improper crowd, or possibly even a girlfriend who set the younger pitcher up for some purpose to get cash or one thing else comparatively primary for the viewers to grasp.
However issues took an entire totally different flip when Colter and Billie discovered the railroad automobile with the blood bag. Instantly, it was wildly obvious that one thing far more sophisticated was taking place.
The extra that got here out about Eric and Ashley, the extra it pointed to a younger child making an attempt to do the appropriate factor. Perhaps he was feeling the stress from an overbearing father and the expectations of being a highschool phenom, however he was additionally a youngster in love.
There was an attention-grabbing story about Eric and his father, that dynamic and the way it could have pushed him even additional towards his girlfriend taking place that by no means received the prospect to totally develop as a result of in the end it grew to become about blood donating, which was definitely a selection!
Colter and Billie’s discovery of that workplace constructing, with its clinic-like setup and the drained corpse, modified this hour from intriguing to a little bit of a head-scratcher.
Tracker flows properly, after which issues simply take a large left that doesn’t all the time work. This one received even whackier in Tracker vogue, particularly when Shane made his presence recognized. It was so apparent he was shady and had one thing to do with what was taking place.
Each character you meet on a Tracker episode must be thought-about a suspect, and the way in which we by no means met Shane. Nonetheless, Billie saved bringing him up, and it felt like he must be thought-about the primary suspect, even when we had restricted data to make that assumption.
The lacking coach was as massive a crimson herring because it will get, and as quickly as Billie met with Shane, one thing was off.
He went from blowing her up always to search out Eric after which abruptly bowing out as a result of the faculty Eric was going to signal with rescinded their provide? A younger boy was nonetheless lacking, and the politics outweighed doing the appropriate factor?
That had evil written throughout it.
It’s arduous to get a grasp on Billie as a result of, very similar to Colter, she retains her playing cards near the vest. She and Colter solely know the variations of themselves they’ve allowed the opposite to see.
Her resolution to depart city, as a result of the reward was off the desk, felt odd, however in the end, it shouldn’t have as a result of we don’t really know the form of individual she is. We all know Colter would by no means do one thing like that as a result of as soon as he makes a promise, he intends to maintain it, however Billie doesn’t appear to play by the identical guidelines.
It appeared like she was possibly going to show the automobile round at numerous factors after she hung up with Colter, and hell, maybe she would have, however we by no means noticed that as a result of Shane knew the jig was up.
Colter’s perceptive as all hell, which you must be in his line of labor, and inside minutes of being within the overly chipper and accommodating Shane’s home, it was fairly apparent he was behind the blood rip-off.
He didn’t even want Bobby’s experience, but it surely was good to have the affirmation!
The sequence continues to be an motion drama that’s gentle on the motion, however the one motion sequence we did get felt overly lengthy and borderline pointless, although it was meant to offer Shane the time to run away and take Billie hostage.
Colter, not even hesitating earlier than capturing Shane, was lowkey humorous due to the way in which Billie reacted. She was legitimately upset at him!
This case had a really constructive consequence outdoors of the child who fell sufferer to the blood draining, and that may not be mentioned for all of Colter’s circumstances, particularly this season.
Billie opening up about her previous felt like a approach to attempt to endear her to Colter and the viewers, however did it work? In the event you have been a kind of who wasn’t too keen on Billie previously, did something throughout this hour change your thoughts?
Her story was unhappy, and he or she was undoubtedly a sufferer in every thing. Her mom did one thing improper, in spite of everything. And Billie makes use of the issues she realized for good in serving to folks, even when she’ll solely do it for cash.
If Billie’s poised to be a recurring character that sometimes groups up with Colter, that’s positive. However long-term? The sequence struggles to arrange significant storylines for the principle characters they have already got with out including anybody else to the combination.
Tracker Notes
- I liked the tiny facet plot about Colter charming Penny “The Pitbull” Bullard, which clearly received beneath Billie’s pores and skin. Generally, Colter’s charms do nothing, however generally, they do work!
- The present working in a approach to get Justin Hartley throwing a baseball round and speaking about how his dad by no means let him play was a pleasant approach to proceed working Ashton within the narrative.
- No Reenie. And Velma had seven seconds to pop in and inform Colter that Billie equals dangerous. I want them to offer Velma one thing extra to do and don’t deprive me of Reenie!
Alright, Tracker followers, how did you are feeling about this one?
Ideas on Billie Matalon?
Did you see the blood donation storyline coming?
How are you feeling in regards to the begin of the season?
Let me know your ideas within the feedback under!
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