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Slip BOSS Season 1 Episode 4 -- There were few long monologues this week though the language was no less force-poetic, and Kelsey Grammar did a much better job of chewing the scenery, but this episode felt like two different shows clashing against each other. One show is the exploration of power and corruption and the underground politics which mar a city as culturally diverse as Chicago. The other is a show about a man with an illness who wants to repair his relationship with his daughter and finish off a legacy before his illness renders him totally incompetent.

Issues between his wife Meredith (Connie Nielsen) and her business partner organization, Scientia, arise as a result of Kane's past cronyism with Frank Kohler (Christian Stolte) and the symptoms of the disease he suffers manifest. Kane's choice to support for Governor, State Tresurer Ben Zajac (Jeff Hephner), faces hostility as he campaigns in southern Illinois and Governor McCall Cullen's (Francis Guinan) tries to interfere by instilling doubts about Kane's motivations for supporting him. Chicago Sentinel reporter Sam Miller (Troy Garity) continues to dig dirt on Kane. As these events unfold, the list of people that could blindside Kane grows just as he's reminded how the documentation of events could have beneficial and damaging repercussions.

In "Swallow", things took an almost Cinemax-like turn, with the sex, nudity and monologues at a series high. This week, things seem to settle down as our main character begin to realize that the walls are either already crumbling down around them, our will no doubt begin to do so in the near future.

Fast-forward to Kane's office, where he begins to set up a computer and webcam in order to monitor what he's doing and saying, as he continues to have lapses. As it turns out it comes in handy pretty quickly, as Kane accidentally promises a contract for delivering meals to schoolchildren to the wrong person. This is rendered worse by the fact that the other company involved, Scientia, is a client of his wife Meredith (Connie Nielsen), who wastes no time chewing Kane out for his mistake, not to mention for throwing the former mayor and her father under the bus for a whole toxic water deal (more on that later), conveniently while Kane wears one of his father-in-law's ties.

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 [fbcomments] Boss S01E04 - Slip One of my favorite aspects of the episode is how Miller's character gets flushed out. His interest in being an advocate for journalism as a form of public service is supported by the references to Deep Throat and Citizen Kane in his scenes. When Editor Jack Bentley (David Pasquesi) alerts the Kane camp of the scoop Miller has been working on regarding the toxic waste dump in DuPage County, Garity's performance fully conveys the despair and frustration Miller feels. However, Miller gets a lucky break. Someone, who has chosen to identify his or herself as 'Rosebud' sends him a document implicating Kane in the waste scandal in which Kane shrewdly pinned on Mayor Rutledge. Miller is aware the journalistic advantage the document offers him but is determined to safe guard it from Bentley until he's ready to strike. Interestingly enough, the opportunistic and political savvy editor also makes it clear to Miller he welcomes a breaking news story against the Kane camp if significant evidence is supplied.

I didn't realize until this episode that Kane had married the last mayor's daughter. No wonder she's deep into it up to the elbows she was raised a machine heiress, though not one to enter office herself. She's protecting her pet project. His shock and dismay when Kane discovers he didn't say to his minion what he thought he did and thereby precipitated this school debacle that pissed her off was stunning. The implications of his condition have just begun to hit him now; oh, he knew intellectually what he was expecting -- but now, it's hit him viscerally, and it was a body blow. he can't afford such mistakes. The episode was definitely a step up over the last couple of weeks, as things seem to slip since the pilot. Boss doesn't need nudity and political soliloquies to be a good show, and this week's writer and director seemed to realize that. Instead, it focused on characters that are clearly unraveling before our eyes. It isn't just Kane. It's his wife, his daughter, his assistant, and maybe the city itself.

What an episode. Despite its flaws and over-the-top unbelievability at some points, I'll still be watching next week. It's like staring at the scene of a grisly 10-car pile-up on the freeway and not being able to tear your eyes away from the flashing lights and the human roadkill as all the cars and trucks burn and explode, and wondering why nobody ran while they still had a chance. Connie Nielsen [l]