Rubicon (TV Series) No Honesty in Men (2010) User Reviews

Kale Ingram vs. Truxton Spangler, and Will Finally Meets His Neighbor

[Better_TV · 8/10 · 14 April 2018]

Yet another great episode, marred only by a touch of over-acting in two short, back-to-back scenes featuring office assistant Emily and then Grant's heretofore unseen wife Lisa.

Otherwise, viewers can look forward to two of the best actors in the show, Arliss Howard and Michael Cristofer, going head-to-head in two different scenes featuring dialogue that positively crackles.

Cristofer's character also has a creepy scene with Christopher Evan Welch's.

Elsewhere in the episode, Will gets to meet his neighbor, played by Annie Parisse of Law & Order fame. He's as socially detached as ever, simply using her attraction to him so that he can spy on his own apartment across the way from hers. What will he witness happening in his apartment while he's gone, and might a romance develop here? And can his neighbor even be trusted?

This is great stuff that totally channels the slow, deliberate paranoia of classic '70s conspiracy films. The script for this episode is floating around online, and if you love screenplays and/or this show, then it's well worth a read.

"There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men"

[Red_Identity · 20 September 2010]

Rubicon has done an amazing job of balancing the overall mystery with the lives of each character, and this episode proves that point in every possible way.

Will is to the point of paranoia that he is not able to even stay in his apartment, so he goes to the apartment of a nearby woman who has has spotted for some time now. The exchanges between him and this woman are remarkably engaging and very well-written. It shows us that the show could definitely stand on it's own without the mystery looming over it. The same with Miles and Grant, who while the former is closer to achieving his personal goals, the latter is facing an economic crisis soon with the loss of his wife's job (who by the way, the actress playing her was completely unlikeable yet sympathetic at the same time).

If that is not enough, we of course have development in the mystery, where Spangler and Ingram are head-to-head in tension that one cannot help but feel it. Crosses of Shaespeare's work are even exchanged. We also have Katherine still finding more information, this time how a woman's husband and her own were child friends, along with a known character in the picture that will have a lot of people speculating.

Overall, another strong episode for Rubicon, and it shows how it is a show you just have to wait for it, since many were doubtful after the Pilot (me included) but now it is in sure hands.