The second half of the episode was probably the best part of the season yet. Again, like a week ago, too little too late. Woodrugh is still mostly useless (well, this is the first time he was useful since they needed two people to extract the documents, but besides being a plot device he is still a non-character), Velcoro is still quite entertaining but overly brooding, Ani is still the highlight of the season for me, even if they diminished her character with sexual abuse backstory (which was implied before, but was played straight this ep) and Frank is Frank.
I really enjoyed the orgy scene and unlike some in this thread I liked the music, I thought it fit and enhanced the mood of the party quite well. Hitchcockian seems to be the most appropriate comparison.
Frank is such a misfire though. Could he had been a better character if played by a better actor? I dislike Vince Vaughn but I can't imagine a greater actor pulling off these dreadful lines. Worst of all, he is still mostly disconnected from the main narrative and his plot is simply boring and trite. Even if he is required to give Velcoro additional motivation to involve himself in this case, he could have just as well been a supporting character and wouldn't stand out much, given how many ancillary characters important to the story we have this season. We don't need to dwell much on him. He should have been on the sidelines, used for more characterization of Vinci if Pizzolatto felt so, but instead he rivals Velcoro in screentime with his uninteresting sideplot.
English is my second language and I was so confused at 'When you walk it's like erases clapping' line back few weeks ago. I struggled so hard to make sense of it, looked 'erasers' up in several dictionaries but still, nothing really fit. I'm far from perfect obviously, but it infuriates me when I have no idea what a given phrase means. At least I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
