What’s the quickest option to get on the FBI’s Most Needed Checklist? Kill a lady in broad daylight in entrance of Supervisory Particular Agent Remy Scott (Dylan McDermott) and the Fugitive Activity Power, clearly. That is what occurred on this week’s FBI Most Needed episode, “Ars Moriendi,” Latin that means the “artwork of dying.” Let’s discuss it.
” Ars Moriendi” – FBI: Most Needed, Pictured: Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Particular Agent Remy Scott. Picture: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Earlier than the perpetrator, Jay Lark (Steven Maier), dedicated his first homicide, he rudely pushed previous Remy in a diner. The following pursuit by Remy and Ray Cannon (Edwin Hodge) was a visceral expertise, bordering on nauseating on account of its graphic material. The prolonged, first-person, hand-held chase scene, whereas delivering an adrenaline rush, felt (paradoxically) overdone and stretched skinny. Lark’s flight escalated from a foot chase to a automobile chase, then to a scooter and eventually the subway. Regardless of the palpable pressure of the FBI’s pursuit, it did little to masks the predictability of Lark’s inevitable escape that early within the episode.
“Ars Moriendi” – FBI: Most Needed, Pictured: Roxy Sternberg as Particular Agent Sheryll Barnes. Picture: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
After escaping, Lark posted the video of his homicide on an unregulated on-line server. The video, which Remy aptly described as a ‘snuff’ movie, garnered feedback from customers, notably from Jar-Man26$$, aka Jarret Bahri (Rama Vallury). With the help of Jill from Cybercrimes, the FBI swiftly deleted Lark’s account, ‘God is Lifeless.’
The storyline, centering on the self-loathing avid gamers Lark and Bahri partaking in a ruthless real-life kill competitors, felt disturbingly acquainted—evoking echoes of Leopold and Loeb—however with the added twist of Gen Z’s social isolation as a result of pandemic. Lark’s lack of each mother and father to COVID and Bahri’s abandonment by his father in the course of the epidemic launched a novel perspective. Nevertheless, the execution lacked consistency and left a lot to be desired. The perpetrators, completely unlikeable, didn’t evoke any sympathy. Particular Agent Sheryl Barnes (Roxy Sternberg) and Remy’s half-hearted justifications, blaming the pandemic or the web for the avid gamers’ actions, fell flat and felt unconvincing.
“Ars Moriendi” – FBI: Most Needed, Pictured: Roxy Sternberg as Particular Agent Sheryll Barnes. Picture: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Regardless of the predictability and unsettling theme, the episode managed to retain a sure degree of leisure. Most viewers doubtless anticipated the inevitable betrayal as one gamer turned on the opposite. Ultimately, Lark reached out to Bahri when the FBI started to shut in on him. Bahri could not resist reside streaming Lark’s homicide, unable to withstand the age-old adage from “Highlander”: there will be just one—Übermensch. Though the episode supplied a sure morbid enjoyment. it finally fell in need of being groundbreaking and left an unsettling aftertaste.
“Ars Moriendi” – FBI: Most Needed, Pictured (L-R): Keisha Fort-Hughes as Particular Agent Hana Gibson, Edwin Hodge as Particular Agent Ray Cannon, and Roxy Sternberg as Particular Agent Sheryll Barnes. Picture: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Did you take pleasure in this episode? Do you assume the pandemic is answerable for Lark and Bahri’s rampage? Let me know within the feedback.
Total Score
7:10
Lynette Jones
