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Dope Thief Recap: Continue the Case
A lizard-brainy action sequence and a couple of campy performances make for an incredibly affecting and entertaining hour of TV.
At the top of “Philadelphia Lawyer,” we’re four months back before the robbery and starting to get a picture, however foggy, of the kind of prick Jack was — running a dangerous undercover op on his own time, taking advantage of his emotionally fragile partner (with whom he’s also having a casual affair) and reeling her into his shady machinations. But Wagner Moura plays it with a complimentary grunge-pop Shakespearean pathos, and there’s a compelling dramatic conflict brewing between Ray’s unwavering drive to and Manny’s Catholic-guilt-ridden inability to push down the old moral cognitive dissonance without shooting up and shutting out the incessant noise of the fire alarms both real and deep in his psyche. Back off he does to survive another day on the run, but not before the bang-pow True Detective LARPing shootout between the Aryan biker gang and Ray and Manny’s new friends, “Professor Mein Kampf” Cyrus (Adam Petchel) and the Joker boys.
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