Rizzoli & Isles Review: A Good Cry
Christine Orlando
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This is what Rizzoli & Isles Season 5 Episode 2 was for both the characters and the audience: a good cry, as I know I couldn't hold back the tears at the funeral.
Most fans knew this day was coming after the tragic death of actor Lee Thompson Young last fall. Of course, knowing this episode would arrive didn't make it any easier to watch.
I appreciated how each of the characters was allowed to deal with their grief in his/her own way. Barry's mother asking his friends to help plan the funeral was a wonderful idea.
As anyone who has had to plan a loved one's funeral knows, the process can be completely overwhelming and this gave each of his partners a chance to help and have something to focus on.
Jane seeing Frost in the street wasn't a surprise. As Maura mentioned, it's fairly normal for someone who's grieving. It's as though you miss them so much that your brain conjures the vision of them at odd moments.
Or was it actually Barry giving them the clue they needed to solve their case? I liked that although Jane wouldn't normally believe in such a thing, she entertained the thought because she knew that Frost would if the roles were reversed.
Speaking of the case, an amnesiac walking into the precinct covered in blood felt like something we've seen before. Not necessarily on Rizzoli & Isles, but on several other crime procedurals. Still, I thought they pulled off the plot line in a somewhat unique way.
I especially liked when Maura couldn't call the young woman Jane Doe because that's what she called the dead women that ended up on her table. So, with typical Maura logic, she ended up with Jessica which led Jane to joke in this Rizzoli & Isles quote…
Oh no, Korsak. Maura's named her. Now we'll never be able to give her back.
Jane
As bad as I felt for Jessica (aka Lilly Green) experiencing the worst day of her life, it was Jane's eulogy that opened the flood gates.
In this moment when there feels like there is none here is the good news. Death may have taken Barry but it can't take our memories of him. Those wonderful and perfect and beautiful memories. Those thank God are ours to keep.
Jane
Thank God they are. RIP Detective Barry Frost. You will be missed.
OK, TV Fanatics, what did you think of how the show handled the death of Det. Barry Frost?
C. Orlando was a TV Fanatic Staff Writer. Follow her on Twitter.
