With the release of "The Admirals Daughter" on the horizon, Miles (Chris O' Dowd) turns his attention to what his next feature is going to be. Turning to the LA cartel for funding this time, his project attracts much bigger attention both from hard-nosed producer Lawrence Budd (Steven Weber) and from the FBI taskforce headed up by Special Agent Clara Dillard (Felicity Huffman).
To be honest, it was very much more of the same from the second season of "Get Shorty". It follows on almost exactly from the end of the first season, with "The Admirals Daughter" in post-production and Miles lost to the pressures of salvaging something from a shoot that hasn't gone as well as it could have. O' Dowd remains a reason alone to watch the show with an excellent central turn, running the line from the jovial wit to violent mobster, but never losing sight of his desire to make the film he wants too, regardless of the obstacles that are put in his place.
The season does run a long way though. Right the way through the production of "Wylderness", the second feature that Miles is involved with. Its ending does make it difficult to see how the upcoming third season will work - without another time jump forward. But I'm very interested in seeing how Miles reintegrates himself to the film industry. I think it's probably unlikely, but I'd like to see the organised crime aspect of the series fall away now - it's just not as interesting to me as the mechanics of making movies, and what a man of Miles' moral flexibility can bring to that.
Either way, and whatever choices are made, I'll certainly be back for the third season.
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