What doesn’t disappoint, though, is Raimy’s pursuit and murder of Deacon Joe in 2016, as Frequency again crafts another exciting and surprising action sequence. So even though I’m very curious to see how Frank gets out of this situation (as I’m guessing that the Nightingale Killer will somehow escape and the cops won’t find a man tied up in Frank’s trunk), it still bothers me how predictable this storyline ends up being, especially after how well the tension is built throughout most of the hour it felt like watching someone deflate a balloon you had just spent all your time blowing up. First, it’s him running into Gordo and his dad (although that is also placed in the episode to give us the necessary background on Gordo’s father before we meet him in 2016 through Raimy), then it’s the long, lingering shot on Raimy’s clarinet case in the backseat of his car, and then finally it’s him fumbling with his phone as he drives through the pitch-black night–any time a television show stays on a character for that long while he or she is driving, you know his or her car is about to get hit.
Plus, everything involving Frank’s preparation to take down the Nightingale Killer is nerve-wracking because since there are still three episodes left in the season (and most likely the series) after this one, you know he’s not going to actually pull the trigger and kill Joe so something has to go wrong in a pretty major way.Īnd of course, it does, and that’s where I have a minor issue with this episode of Frequency, as “The Edison Effect” telegraphs every problem that Frank faces. There’s so much intensity and excitement throughout this hour, from the opening moments of Deacon Joe changing his appearance to Raimy chasing him down and shooting him in one of the episode’s final scenes.
“The Edison Effect” is an engrossing and yet also frustrating episode of Frequency.
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