Since the episode with the Gold Rush mission, this show's really stepped it up a notch and has been A+ all the way. Unfortunately, I severely doubt The Mole will be back after this summer, but hopefully they'll release all three civilian seasons on DVD or something, so I can be the only person on earth who buys it!
You gotta love this dialogue exchange -
Clay: The way I got that number was I added 8 and then [insert overly complicated speculation here, involving square roots, negative numbers, and the imaginary i]
Mark: Yeah, but 7 minus 2 is FIVE!
Clay: ...oh. [quiet]
I can't believe no one picked Craig as the person they trusted the most. Who'd they pick? Clay, who's a robot. Mark, who might be clinically insane. Why they shouldn't pick Paul or Nicole should be terribly obvious (though Nicole rocked at memorizing).
All television editors should WORSHIP that episode. First, Mark had about 800 confessionals in the running-around-the-plazas-getting-numbers mission, so I thought he was out for sure. I also thought the entire mission was a giant neon flashing arrow saying "HEY HEY HEY!!! CLAY IS THE MOLE!!! HE IS REMARKABLY SUSPICIOUS IN A NUMBER OF WAYS!!!" I think that mission was the only one that was sabotaged in any way. Then, after the loved ones came, Nicole had that whole "it's time to go home, I don't want to get beaten by the boys" thing. I don't follow reality TV editing very well, but even I can tell that's the Villain Who's Leaving Is Redeemed arc. Heck, she was wearing Execution Red, Carmen Sandiego-style! Up until the very second she got that green thumbprint, I could have sworn she was leaving (she even got the music change/overly long focus on her face/the results). Then, when she was safe, and they turned to Clay, I just said "OH SHIT" out loud. Maybe it was so obvious it was going to be Nicole that it was too obvious, but... I dunno. This game messes with your head just watching it on TV; I can't imagine living it 24/7, though GOD I WOULD WANT TO (be on this show).
If I were a producer, I'd be drooling over Nicole's "this is my final confessional" confessional. If she's not the Mole, I know she's staying and this is a great, great way to hide whoever is leaving. If she is the Mole, it's a great "performance." If Mark or Nicole is the Mole, he/she is a great actor/actress.
The loved ones were great. Craig's girlfriend was cute, Clay's wife was sweet and they were adorably in love, Nicole's mom was sassy and hysterical (she called Nicole Omarosa!!!!), I adore Mark's wife by association, and Paul's daughter and wife, but especially his daughter, were simply delightful. "Open sesame!" Poor them, living with Paul, though he certainly seemed sweet and loving with the two of them. Awww, I actually liked Paul for like two minutes!
I may have been secretly wishing, before we met Tori and Alexa, that Jon would ask Mark all the questions Paul skipped, and Paul would be the only one who wouldn't see his family. He'd become so infuriated he would lose focus completely and bomb the next quiz and leave. But, yeah. You don't do that to a Yonkers boy unless you want murder on your hands! Also, remember. You didn't read this paragraph here. Shhhh.
Bye, Clay. You were so the Mole. As many in your goodbye said, you were a really classy guy in the midst of complete insanity who played the game with smarts... and I also thought you were hysterically funny in a very wry, dry, lawyer-ish way. No one in history will ever wear as much yellow as you did.
Mole list (based entirely on instinct, since everyone who's left sucks as the Mole until Jon points out the ways he/she was genius in the final reveal):
Mildly suspicious
Mark
Craig
Nicole
Not suspicious
Paul
You gotta love this dialogue exchange -
Clay: The way I got that number was I added 8 and then [insert overly complicated speculation here, involving square roots, negative numbers, and the imaginary i]
Mark: Yeah, but 7 minus 2 is FIVE!
Clay: ...oh. [quiet]
I can't believe no one picked Craig as the person they trusted the most. Who'd they pick? Clay, who's a robot. Mark, who might be clinically insane. Why they shouldn't pick Paul or Nicole should be terribly obvious (though Nicole rocked at memorizing).
All television editors should WORSHIP that episode. First, Mark had about 800 confessionals in the running-around-the-plazas-getting-numbers mission, so I thought he was out for sure. I also thought the entire mission was a giant neon flashing arrow saying "HEY HEY HEY!!! CLAY IS THE MOLE!!! HE IS REMARKABLY SUSPICIOUS IN A NUMBER OF WAYS!!!" I think that mission was the only one that was sabotaged in any way. Then, after the loved ones came, Nicole had that whole "it's time to go home, I don't want to get beaten by the boys" thing. I don't follow reality TV editing very well, but even I can tell that's the Villain Who's Leaving Is Redeemed arc. Heck, she was wearing Execution Red, Carmen Sandiego-style! Up until the very second she got that green thumbprint, I could have sworn she was leaving (she even got the music change/overly long focus on her face/the results). Then, when she was safe, and they turned to Clay, I just said "OH SHIT" out loud. Maybe it was so obvious it was going to be Nicole that it was too obvious, but... I dunno. This game messes with your head just watching it on TV; I can't imagine living it 24/7, though GOD I WOULD WANT TO (be on this show).
If I were a producer, I'd be drooling over Nicole's "this is my final confessional" confessional. If she's not the Mole, I know she's staying and this is a great, great way to hide whoever is leaving. If she is the Mole, it's a great "performance." If Mark or Nicole is the Mole, he/she is a great actor/actress.
The loved ones were great. Craig's girlfriend was cute, Clay's wife was sweet and they were adorably in love, Nicole's mom was sassy and hysterical (she called Nicole Omarosa!!!!), I adore Mark's wife by association, and Paul's daughter and wife, but especially his daughter, were simply delightful. "Open sesame!" Poor them, living with Paul, though he certainly seemed sweet and loving with the two of them. Awww, I actually liked Paul for like two minutes!
I may have been secretly wishing, before we met Tori and Alexa, that Jon would ask Mark all the questions Paul skipped, and Paul would be the only one who wouldn't see his family. He'd become so infuriated he would lose focus completely and bomb the next quiz and leave. But, yeah. You don't do that to a Yonkers boy unless you want murder on your hands! Also, remember. You didn't read this paragraph here. Shhhh.
Bye, Clay. You were so the Mole. As many in your goodbye said, you were a really classy guy in the midst of complete insanity who played the game with smarts... and I also thought you were hysterically funny in a very wry, dry, lawyer-ish way. No one in history will ever wear as much yellow as you did.
Mole list (based entirely on instinct, since everyone who's left sucks as the Mole until Jon points out the ways he/she was genius in the final reveal):
Mildly suspicious
Mark
Craig
Nicole
Not suspicious
Paul
