"Blunt Talk" Recap: "The Queen of Hearts"

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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I had a funny feeling as I started to sink my teeth into Blunt Talk that the show was planning to interconnect many of the plot lines and as we reached the halfway point of the season with last night's episode "The Queen of Hearts", it turns out my hunch was right. This episode managed to begin to bring together the rich tapestry of this world for Walter Blunt and as always did it in hilarious fashion.

This go round brought us to something important missing in Walter's life, love. After all we quickly discover that it's been seven months since he enjoyed the company of a woman and last night it would seem...someone special has found their way into his life and in tradition with the show, it comes about in the strangest of circumstances...poker. Yes, a card game brings fate Walter's way when Rosalie hosts a poker game at home and after being insulted by a publicist who tends to represent some of the more unsavory folks in the news our intrepid producer makes a bet she instantly regrets.

It turns out that by losing that last hand Walter has to put a right wing nut, Suzanne Mayview, on his show, one with hyper radical views and in the process, derail Walter's plans to help save the planet since he will have to bump a family that has managed to do a wonderful job of learning to live from the earth and their lessons could teach others so much. Of course Walter initially cannot bring himself to do it, so he goes to bump Ms. Mayview from the show...only to find that her admiration of Walter is too much for him to overcome and well...she makes the show.  

It leads to his softest interview yet, one that Rosalie points out during the break could instead be one of his finest and it ends as just that...a wonderful piece of reporting from Walter Blunt, and an evening in bed with Suzanne after all is said and done. 
We don't know if Suzanne will continue on as Walter's new love interest, but we can't go any further without discussing the comedy portion of the show, since as it turns out Shelly won A LOT of money in the poker game and with her magician now gone, it leads to a need to fulfill the rush of winning, one Harry is happy to help her oblige with a seedy high stakes poker game, where we learn the necklace she loves...is a fake and they haul ass out of there to not have to cover the pot.

While this episode was not quite as sentimental and bittersweet as the last two, it still did a fine job putting together every theme and idea that Walter is driving toward to better himself...and the struggle that is still deep within him to get there. I mean after all, he bumped the earthy family for a blonde bombshell. As always he means well but wild Walter always manages to find a way to come back out. But of all the converging plot lines...one still concerns me and I have a feeling it will rear it's head soon, specifically...what's wrong with Teddy? Is he really losing it, or is something else going on medically with his mind? We'll just have to wait and see. Until next time. 

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