Written by Ray Utarnachitt
Directed by David Geddes
Constantine (to Astra): "I came down all the way to tell you that I'm not giving up on you."
And the award for the most predictable plot twist would go to - John Constantine not giving up on main season antagonist Astra Logue, who has been having a whale of a time unleashing Encores onto the world for shits and giggles.
I'm not complaining. Given their history, I would've been far more shocked if Constantine actually had thrown the towel in with Astra but it does raise a point that sometimes the show doesn't allow villain to properly remain villains as it's pretty obvious that John is going to succeed in bringing Astra back into the light. The question remains though - at what point does Astra make the change for good?
Right now, she's certainly enjoying her rule over hell and making John's life as unpleasant as possible and this week, she unleashed the likes of Bugsy Malone (Jonathan Sadowski) back into the world for the Legends to deal with and the results were fun enough to watch. For John, it meant getting a little bit closer to Malone's girlfriend, Jeannie though things didn't end particularly well for her while Ray also came foul of a bent copper for good measure.
As for Sara, Ava and Mick, well they had a bit more fun with this plot compared to Ray and John. Ava treated us to some spectacularly shambolic drunk singing as a means of causing a distraction in the Blue Iguana as Mick looked on bemused at her performance and Sara was as charming as ever with Bugsy before bringing him in.
Of course Bugsy not only got sent back to hell but thanks to a certain gun, I'm not sure we'll be seeing him again. Getting back to Ava though - I really hope we can go a good few episodes without her being angsty. I get that she's trying to find her place on the Waverider following the Time Bureau not being a thing but let's not dwell on it too much, yeah?
Meanwhile Nate and Behrad went to the latter's stomping ground for the latter's birthday and there we met up with the Influencer version of Zari, who also managed to piece the fact that her brother and his professor were at Heyworld back in 1996 before being brought on to the Waverider and freaking the hell out. This version of Zari is going to be fun to have around for a while but I assume her memories will resurface as the season progresses.
- It seems that Masher has gotten on Astra's bad side as well as she used him to emphasise a point to John at the start of the episode.
- And we've got a new title sequence that has the characters faces in it.
- With Mona gone, both Nora and Charlie were also absent but going by the promos for next week, looks like they'll be back. No Gary too.
- Let's see - 1940's for the Bugsy Malone bit, 2044 for the Nate/Behrad/Zari bit and footage from 2019 for the HeyWorld bit.
Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me had fun with it's main plot and it's B-plot also held things together rather well. I did like that things have gotten serious with Constantine at least having a plan for Astra and both Ava and new Zari somewhat added to the humour of the episode.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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