Her monologues are profoundly delivered without being preachy, her interactions always aloof but genuine.
Really, as the leader of the threesome, Shohreh Aghdashloo plays Avasarala impeccably. I won’t say they’ve established a team dynamic, but you can see the contours of one forming, an alliance of people trying to stop the war from the inside that will balance out the crew of the Rocinante trying to stop it from the Belt. With the boss sinking into petulance, Cotyar and Bobbi take turns laughing at and with her, distracting her while also mocking her weakness. Then you add Avasarala into the mix and it just gets better. She doesn’t even say it mean, or sneering. Their exchanges are so revealing of who each of them are - two career soldiers on opposite sides of a silent war, brought together by the gravity of Avasarala and the pressure of a system spinning out of control. Earth, Avasarala’s officeīobbi and Cotyar are adorable together, well, adorable in that killers who sleep with one eye up kind of way. But she lets Naomi get to work anyway, with a clearly wounded and unsteady Amos standing protectively near by. “You people are shit magnets,” the Belta Lady says. The Somnambulist is taking all comers, well…except for Naomi and Amos that is. The giving away of all of his most loved items. Holden dismisses him, calling him Plant Boy, and continues yelling at Alex, who’s just trying to be his best. Prax tries to talk some sense into Holden, which is understandable that Prax is the only dude on the ship who still has sense left. It would be more moving if the actor had a wider range of facial expressions…I find his “I’m angry” scowl and his “I want to sex up Naomi” scowl and his “I have no idea what’s going on” scowl to all be interchangeable. Holden is clearly fraying, his face all scowly. Luckily, they don’t linger on extended, bizarre past vs future comparisons, but they move on to shooting up the landscape. I expect better from writers who have generally refused to engage in modern stereotyping of their diverse cast. Holden and Alex have a weird “Native Americans were obsolete” conversation that is one of the more predictable and trite lines of dialog in the show. I wonder if anyone has sympathy for That Mu’fucker, if any of the viewers think “yo, he’s a good guy, just trying to buy a super weapon that he can use for mutually assured destruction, you know…like you do.” Above Ganymede Then he goes all “Jonny let’s have this one last talk you follow your heart” moment with his son. This opening sequence had me thinking that he was actually turning his hatred and ambition inward - the purposeful neck prick, the flashback voiceover with Avasarala being totally unhelpful, it is all a set-up for suicide. I told y’all That Mu’fucker was up to some shit. But before we get to that, we have to talk Errinwright, or as I call him, That Mu’fucker. Alex has some of the sleepy songs all set up in his Spotify. Once you’re yelling at your pilot to fly a ship through an ag dome while you machine gun wisps of blue goo…maybe it is time to take a step back, have a cup of decaf, and chill. Not to say it isn’t pretty well earned, I mean dealing with aliens can get kind of brain melty, but still. Sorry to break it to y’all, but I think Holden has lost his actual mind.
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