Afterlife - Episode 1x03 - Twin

With this episode, I definitely regret not reading this series sooner. While I still had a slight problem with this episode, Afterlife still kept its ability to suck me into the story.

I’ll go into my problem first. I didn’t really like how very little of the episode was spent in the present, with Jonathan in Silver City. We had a lot more story about the past. Quite frankly though, if the show is called Afterlife, shouldn’t it be mainly about the afterlife? I just felt like all we got in the present was a fight, while we got so much more in the past. (Keep in mind, I know that the past needs to be told, it’s just that I feel like too much time was spent on the past compared to the present.)

Now we’ll move on to what I enjoyed. I really loved that we got some more of Jonathan in this episode, but yet again, there was only Jonathan and no Aurora. However, I’m not as disappointed about this as I was in the last episode. This episode a lot of good guest stars, all of which gave us a good insight into Jonathan’s past.

‘Twin’ showed me just how socially awkward Jonathan is. In the pilot, he seemed like he was just constantly sarcastic. What is nice to see is how his sister helped him realize that it was time for a change and how he needed to get up and do something. Before the security job, he seemed very socially awkward, as I already said. He didn’t seem too happy about seeing other people, especially his girlfriend’s ‘friends’. At first, I was going to call him a loner, but while he still saw people and talked to others, I just decided to go with socially awkward.

While I didn’t really like Joan as a character, Jenny made up for it. Joan seemed like a strange fit for Jonathan, so much so that I can’t even really think of why they would be attracted to each other in the first place. However, Jenny was amazing. Her message that she left on the answering machine was amazing and made the entire episode for me. Her speech was superb writing on your part, Jon.

This episode was better than the pilot, in my opinion. The writing and story is phenomenal. I just can’t believe I waited so long to dive in.

Jimbo’s Next Theory
Aurora, when she returns to Silver City, will meet Jonathan again because both of them will be locked up. I think that would be quite an interesting way for the two to meet again.