IR TV Review: NAUTILUS - EPISODE 8 (“The Tipping Point”)[AMC]
The aspect of trust comes from an aspect of truth. With Episode 8 of "Nautilus": "The Tipping Point", the crew is trying to make their way under the Northern Artic passage which really has never been done because of the ice. The plight doesn't seem as dire but the episode is more specific in a character structure, because like a classic "Bounty" story, it is about if the actual progress can make it through to the end. Nemo himself is closed off because he has learned not to trust but that goes both ways. He thinks he is their savior simply because he made it possible for them to escape but duress can cause backlash. Humility Lucas understands the crew better than he does but she has had to come to terms (like her handmaiden) of who she is.
Her chaperone (as it were) finally gives her ward as sense of the revolutionary she used to be before pleasant society required her to be a different way to function. The most dynamically emotional part of the episode is a quite scene on a precipice (literally) that requires a leap of sorts. In all actuality, it plays a little overdramatic but that is what is needed to set the stakes leading into the two part finale. More people will be lost but that is what makes the series itself pertinent because not everyone gets out alive. Most series want to rely on a possibly second season when a simple singular story is a more powerful context. "Nautilus" is, at times, uneven but at its core it does know what it is: a voyage based on faith in humanity. B
By Tim Wassberg
