Enlightened (TV Series) All I Ever Wanted (2013) User Reviews

Be Careful What You Wish For

[talksallabout-426-536345 · 10/10 · 19 February 2013]

HBO's "Enlightened" just gets better and better--the show is so insightful, so emotional, so revealing about the foibles of its characters. Episode #16 (aired February 17, 2013) is titled "All I Ever Wanted." A great title—it led me to title this review "Be Careful What You Wish For." You know how sometimes you want something and you finally realize it is never going to happen so you start wanting something else, something better, and then you get it, but then you also get the thing you wanted in the first place, but you pass on t because now you have this better thing, only maybe this better thing will slip through your grasp and you will have nothing. If so, you can understand Amy Jellicoe's position. Actually, this scenario might describe quite a few of the characters on "Enlightened."

The above is an excerpt from my review on my blog, Premium Cable Reviews. I recap the main action of the show and give my thoughts about Amy's situation.

Enlightened All I Ever Wanted

[dalydj-918-255175 · 19 February 2013]

Amy as a character has really annoyed the whole run of the show but in this episode I was blown away by the performance given by Laura Dern and also how much sympathy I felt for her as she had these two choices to make between the man she wanted to change in Levi and the man she wants to be in Jeff. I was questionable of Jeff and Amy sleeping together but when the rest of the episode played out it was a good choice by the writers especially when Levi returned wanting to be with her once again. While the show revolves mainly around Amy I feel that with these episodes focusing on a single character have changed the focus of the show to have more of a great ensemble who all play well of Amy. Levi is a bad character for the show but the writers also did a good job of making me like him because of his healing and he wanted her back only to see her in the car with Jeff at the end of the episode. Once again Dern did such a great job especially in her breakdown scene which felt even more real with Dern's real life mother Diane Ladd playing her mother on the show.

EPISODE GRADE: A- (MVP: Laura Dern)