One of the things that I've always loved about V.I.P. aside from its campiness and humorous moments are its colorful characters. We all know how Vallery came to be the figurehead of the now famous bodyguard agency and some later episodes down the road the show would explore the other team members like Quick, Nikki and Kay and what led them to taking up a job in private sector security for celebrities in Hollywood. But out of all these characters, no-nonsense 2nd in command Tasha Dexter is the one that I find the most intriguing.
Tasha is a woman of dedication and total mystery and even Bryan Cranston's sleazy washed up action star character Colt Arrow (the original owner of the agency before his departure from the series) hints in the first pilot episode that Tasha was a 'company' (C.I.A.) woman but Tasha who is very secretive about her life will never confirm nor deny her involvement with any government agencies in her past life regardless of who asks her be it Vallery, Kay or anyone else. The other thing about Tasha is that she is so dedicated to her work, you wonder if she's capable of love or feeling anything for herself or her comrades in this show as the writer's have made her very surly and serious. But in this episode, we learn that Tasha does have a 'love life' (or at least she did) when a an annoying paparazzi named Kip Lashane becomes the target for a ruthless assassin for hire called the Owl, who is a master of disguise. And that's not all...he's also Tasha's ex-husband!
As always we have gunfights, explosions and some snippy humor to keep things going for the full 40 to 45 minutes that V.I.P. has the stage. The introduction of the Owl was a stroke of genius and I kind of hoped that his character would become something of an 'asset' for the V.I.P. team to enlist from time to time as some of their assignments do revolve around espionage. Plus, this probably the one episode where Tasha smiles and shows that there is definitely a man in her life that sets her blood on fire (and its safe to assume that she does the same thing for the Owl too in a flashback sequence from their earlier lives when they were married).
All and all, My Bloody Val-entine was an intriguing if not small insight into Tasha's life. They definitely needed more episodes that focused on her character and how she deals with people from her agency days when they come back into her life to make trouble for her and her crew.
Tasha is a woman of dedication and total mystery and even Bryan Cranston's sleazy washed up action star character Colt Arrow (the original owner of the agency before his departure from the series) hints in the first pilot episode that Tasha was a 'company' (C.I.A.) woman but Tasha who is very secretive about her life will never confirm nor deny her involvement with any government agencies in her past life regardless of who asks her be it Vallery, Kay or anyone else. The other thing about Tasha is that she is so dedicated to her work, you wonder if she's capable of love or feeling anything for herself or her comrades in this show as the writer's have made her very surly and serious. But in this episode, we learn that Tasha does have a 'love life' (or at least she did) when a an annoying paparazzi named Kip Lashane becomes the target for a ruthless assassin for hire called the Owl, who is a master of disguise. And that's not all...he's also Tasha's ex-husband!
As always we have gunfights, explosions and some snippy humor to keep things going for the full 40 to 45 minutes that V.I.P. has the stage. The introduction of the Owl was a stroke of genius and I kind of hoped that his character would become something of an 'asset' for the V.I.P. team to enlist from time to time as some of their assignments do revolve around espionage. Plus, this probably the one episode where Tasha smiles and shows that there is definitely a man in her life that sets her blood on fire (and its safe to assume that she does the same thing for the Owl too in a flashback sequence from their earlier lives when they were married).
All and all, My Bloody Val-entine was an intriguing if not small insight into Tasha's life. They definitely needed more episodes that focused on her character and how she deals with people from her agency days when they come back into her life to make trouble for her and her crew.
