7/20/2023 0 Comments The company you keep![]() Ventimiglia is natural as a shaggy fox who cleans up well and maybe realizes Kim's Emma is too good for him.Įlegant Emma does too, and Kim plays that insinuation in a way that makes us secure that she has the upper hand. None of it has to do with any lopsided effort devoted toward inflating Charlie's suaveness on the part of the show's executive producers Julia Cohen and Phill Klemmer. Ventimiglia and Kim emit the type of screen heat that flushes the cheeks, capable of powering a show through whatever rocky plot shoals it might catch on as it finds its way, and the scripts have a few clunks, as most new shows do. One without the other is simply a splinter and cardboard. He may be the match, but she's the striker. "The Company You Keep" makes me appreciate how tough that is to pull off, because it's tough to say who's who. Someone once said that the key to making a fictional couple click is in finding one person everyone wants to be and matching them with someone everyone wants to do. By the time they allow one bubble of truth to break the surface of their reverie – he admits he's a criminal, she tells him she's CIA – they're too far gone. What strikes a person about this opener and everything that comes afterward is how evenly matched these romantic leads are written. Since love is a lie, then maybe the safest thing they can do is be openly dishonest. Only then do we witness this exchange, understanding that it's really a negotiation. His heart has been shattered too.Ĭatherine Haena Kim and Milo Ventimiglia in "The Company You Keep" (ABC/Eric McCandless) She narrows her eyes at him, reading only pain. But then there's Charlie, who pipes up for a moment – not to try out a line, but to empathize. She quickly wields her talent for sizing up men like a scythe, cutting him off at the knees, or maybe a few inches higher, before he can further ruin her solace. All she wants is to be left alone with a dirty martini, which makes her a magnet for a random married sleazeball. Emma is polished and exhausted and just discovered her lover is cheating. Charlie's fiancée robbed him blind and vanished he plans to lick his wounds in the honeymoon suite. This is the way " The Company You Keep" sets up Charlie Nicoletti ( Milo Ventimiglia) and Emma Hill ( Catherine Haena Kim), as they sit at a chic hotel bar trying to forget their respective terrible days. "Not just lying to each other – lying to ourselves, really." "It's exhausting, isn't it? Lying to each other all the time." "A shell game to conceal who you really are."
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