Blood Over Water (TV series): Difference between revisions

 

The plot is essentially this: A mob boss named Clyde Spendelworth moves [[Everytown, America|into town]], and takes control of the local [[Bland-Name Product|Sleet Mountain]] water bottling factory, and [[Devil in Plain Sight|nobody seems to notice at first]]. Clyde immediately hires [[Psycho for Hire|George Lawence]] and Kyle Tugrass to be his enforcers at the factory, and blackmails bottling plant employee Chris Kennal into working for his conspiracy. Chris is friends with twin brothers Mark and Aaron Stefflin, and Mark works with Chris at the factory. However, Clyde grows over confident when he assumes Mark will be as corruptible as Chris. Mark, sure enough, isn't interested in Clyde's games - especially when he takes issue with pollution and cleanup fraud. Mark steals a "Confidential" envelope, then waits for the perfect opportunity to rat out his employer to the EPA.

A novel is in the works to enhance / streamline / repair elements of continuity from the miniseries, as well as tie it in with the greater ''Gerosha Chronicles''. Expanded material makes clear that the story happens over four months, rather than in a single week as the miniseries implies with its scene-by-scene narrative timeline. Clyde's ties to the Hebbleskin Gang, personal frustrations with the vigilante Navyrope, ties to the sex trafficking ring Gleeful-N'-Young, and Chris' journey to becoming an anti-hero known as the Purge-Flare are all either touched on or hinted at in the novel, whereas there wasn't time to explore those themes in the miniseries.

 

 

* [[3D Movie]]: On [[YouTube]].

* [[Angsty Surviving Twin]]: Mark is very business-like and stuffy. And knows how to do everything...except avoid death traps that involve women. Aaron is more of a messy slacker, but seems to have a better sense of self-control with women - and awareness of his environment. But he does seem to trust {{spoiler|Chris}} a little too much. When one twin goes missing, the other goes to ''crazy lengths'' to make sense of it.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Quoted verbatim by Chris in one scene.

* [[I Have a Family]]: Played perfectly straight by Monica when she's begging for mercy. George's response to both her and Aaron:

* [[In Love with the Mark]]: Literally. In the novelization, Ashley considers running away with Mark rather than simply sleeping with him and then stealing the folder back while he's asleep. However, she is unable to defect in time before {{spoiler|Chris}} ambushes her and Mark both.

* [[Just Between You and Me]]: Kyle and George explain the entire plot to Aaron. They think he's Mark so it's understandable. However, [[Fridge Logic|one has to wonder]] about the fact that Chris [[Poor Communication Kills|never bothered to explain to them]] that Mark had a twin brother. One would also think that they'd check his pockets and ID, which would have tipped them off just as much as his ignorance that he wasn't Mark. For this one scene, George and Kyle were required to carry an [[Idiot Ball]].

* [[Thicker Than Water]]: A central part of the plot. Chris was "treated like family" by Aaron and Mark, and has to decide if he's more loyal to them or to his greedy boss Clyde.

* [[Trouble Entendre]]: This lovely exchange between Kyle and George in a flashback in Part 5 reveals that while Kyle thinks George is [[I Did What I Had to Do|rationalizing their intentions]] of covering up {{spoiler|Mark's murder}}, what George really means is that he's [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|done this sort of thing too often for any one instance to matter]].

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: The proposed reboot/remake depicts Ashley Phillips this way, whereas in the miniseries shows her to be just as greedy as everyone else at Sleet Mountain.

* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: And don't need all the back-and-forth time skips explained.

* [[You Meddling Kids]]: When Aaron tries to talk the Sleet Mountain goons out of killing him and Monica, they blame his "snooping around" for forcing their hand...except of course for George, who would've probably killed them for some other reason anyway.

* [[What Is Going On?]]: Asked by Aaron several times, implying he is a lousy reader. Otherwise, he would've been able to deduce ''something'' for all the time he spent studying the "Confidential" folder paperwork.

* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: All Kyle and George would have really had to do was shoot Aaron in the back of his head. Instead, they threw a bag over his head to abduct him. Then tied him up (very poorly), then [[Evil Gloating|taunted him]]. ''And then'', fought over [[Stupid Crooks|who would get to]] actually pull the trigger.

 

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