EAGLEHEART “Susie’s Song” Review

EAGLEHEART “Susie’s Song” Episode 8 – On tonight’s episode of Eagleheart we discover that Susie’s got a blinding passion for assassins – or as Doc Shades explains, she’s got “regis adophelia, or as it’s known on the street, Lou Gehrig’s other disease.”

After Susie releases him from an altar of a sacrificial ritual to have the zoning commission approve a deck, Arnold Blanth becomes Susie’s admirer/stalker. Arnold is completely psychotic and I liked that her co-workers all misinterpreted his cat hearts in a box as something sweet except for Chris, of course, who seemed to be annoyed that this was all happening in his office on his time. After Arnold assassinates Secretary of Transportation, Charles Folger, something comes over Susie and she can no longer see Arnold Blanth for who he really is. She sees this glossed over rebel-without-a-cause bad boy that she can’t resist and runs off with him instead of arresting him.

Governor DanJoshi Conti returns in this episode of Eagleheart to cooperate in a scheme set up by Chris Monsanto to lure Arnold Blanth out of hiding. Because Susie is losing interest in him without a new political assassination, Arnold appears just as Monsanto had expected. Brett’s rage after discovering that Arnold had just shot a mouse (because the governor was wearing a bullet proof vest lined with mice) was hilarious and I loved that Brett has had no issues in all the episodes of Eagleheart watching people dramatically killed, but an unseen mouse death is deserving of his uncontrolled rage.

With each scene, Brett seemed to get more strange and Chris seemed to get more annoyed with everything around him. I laughed out loud when Brett said “They’re having sex” while watching Arnold and Susie kiss. Chris’ ridiculous deadpan response, “Not yet Brett, they have to see a preacher first and then cut a hole in the sheet” was perfect. Their stunned looks and confused, stumbling reaction to Susie shooting at them made this my favorite scene of this episode. It was nice to have this all these references come back at the end when Brett accidentally shoots Governor DanJoshi Conti in the execution room, and Susie is suddenly attracted to Brett causing Chris to dryly react, “jeeze, I’ll grab a sheet, who’s good at cutting holes?”

Susie did a good job of being both funny and cute in this episode where her character was sillier than normal. Chris and Brett had great interaction tonight and I loved how they played off one another as a team of two without Susie. “Susie’s Song” was probably one of the weaker episodes of Eagleheart, but that’s not to say it was bad. The plot was a little slow and there wasn’t a whole lot of action, but hilarious dialogue and great Chris Monsanto one-liners made up for whatever was lacking in the storytelling, so in the end, it was still a lot of fun.