July 25-July 31 “Ghost Dad” | Blindspotting
Week after week Blindspotting continues to be one of the most riveting series on our screens, and this week’s episode “Ghost Dad” is no exception. I don’t even want to say it’s my favorite so far because knowing this show, next week’s will surely top it. But in every way, “Ghost Dad” is the episode I have not been able to stop thinking about. It was masterful from start to finish, full of captivating performances left and right, and cobbled with so much innocence, it nearly broke me.
It targeted the episode’s thematic angle, learning to love the grey beautifully and it did so with moments so potent, you could watch the scenes without any context and still feel every ounce of the emotions that were projected. If I wasn’t already watching the show, and I saw the screencap of Miles and Ashley in front of the sunset with the words, “I just miss you. That’s all. You’re my person,” that would have been my cue to start watching.
There’s a plethora of weight to every conversation that Ashley has with Miles’ ghost before telling Sean about his whereabouts, but that final moment is everything that’s brilliantly telling about what love really is. On a show that’s so understandably mature and dark at times, this moment was so unbearably soft and innocent, it was gut wrenching.