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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 199503" data-attributes="member: 22">All Over But the Shouting (KNOTS, 23 Oct 86) v All’s Well (KNOTS, 19 Dec 85)All Over But the Shouting is the second alphabetical episode in a row in which Lilimae has a dramatic scene in a supermarket. She and Ben start to panic when Bobby suddenly disappears, but then he turns up in the frozen food aisle in the arms of Jean Hackney, who is wearing a film noir headscarf to show Ben she means business. He gets the message and sacrifices his own integrity to endorse Peter Hollister on live TV the night before the Senate election. Abby, as Ben’s boss and the wife of Peter’s opponent, is furious, but as Peter’s secret lover, takes full credit when he calls to thank her for the endorsement. It’s just so enjoyably knotty.All’s Well is Noises Everywhere meets THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN. Juxtaposed with some tensely oppressive scenes in the Gibson house on the afternoon following Joshua’s funeral (including a brilliant one in the kitchen that goes on for ages and is one of my favourites of the entire series) is Gary stumbling upon the futuristic sci-fi world buried under Empire Valley. In so doing, he becomes The Man Who Knew Too Much.Greg is in pretty much the same position in both episodes — pushed into a corner, trying to do the right thing while covering his own tracks, and ultimately failing to control the situation. In All Over But the Shouting, he installs Phil Harbert, Karen’s kidnapper, in a fleabag motel and orders him to lay low. In All’s Well, he orders Coblentz to call off the hitman who is gunning for Gary. But neither Phil nor Coblentz is listening. And in each situation, Mack is breathing down his former best friend’s neck, wrongly convinced Greg had Karen kidnapped and wants Gary dead. While Phil goes stir crazy and calls out for pizza, thereby blowing his cover, Gary simply goes crazy and blows up Empire Valley.And the winner is ... All’s Well.BONUS BEATS[MEDIA=youtube]vrvoOytx4s0[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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