‘House of Lies’ season 3, episode 9 review: Trouble for Roscoe, Lex, and the story
There have been times this season where “House of Lies” has shown us tremendous promise to be the series that we really want it to be: Sharp, biting, and different from anything else that is out there.
Unfortunately, these times are often overlapped by so much of what the show lacks: Humor. At the end of the day, there are many times in which we question whether or not the show is really funny enough. For a weekend in which Veronica Mars returned to the scene again, we would have loved to see Kristen Bell have so much more to do than she did in Sunday night’s episode. Heck, we could say this about many of the people at Kaan & Associates.
The frame in which the story was wrapped around was at least somewhat interesting. From the very beginning, you knew that this story was going to end with watching Marty getting himself in the thick of chaos with Lukas’ film crew after a little “tour.” The story was really all about how he and the rest of his team go there … and we don’t really think that the ends justified the means. This DollaHyde story was interesting back when it felt a little more like there was consistent progress being made. After the party and seeing Lukas’ home, nothing with this guy is surprising anymore.
Also, this episode brought us Exhibit B in Things That Made Us Sad: The relative alteration of Lex as a character. To this point, there was little conflict there in Roscoe’s personal life save for the pressure Marty was putting on his son. Lex and Roscoe got along just fine; so why the 180 tonight just because Roscoe wanted to see some people dance? It did create a nice moment for him and Marty, but the change-around was a little too quick, since we’d always felt like while mischievous, there was genuine respect there in the relationship.
All in all, this was the weakest “House of Lies” episode of the whole season. It was still engaging (as most of the series is), but it just didn’t give us a hook or much of a reason to laugh. You don’t need that ll of the time in a comedy, but it is nice to have it on at least a few occasions. Grade: C.
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