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‘Primal Urges’ explores where one goes to town
"Primal Urges" is an episode in need of a good script doctor. Maybe Dr. Finn should add "script doctor" to her resume. After all, she adds "marriage counselor" to it here (where apparently an MD and a psychology PhD fall under one umbrella), in an episode that bounces around like a haphazard mess. This is an ambitious episode prone to frequent tonal and narrative whiplash, and boy does it not work.
In it, Bortus suffers from holographic porn addiction, which has negative consequences for his marriage to Klyden. Bortus lies about what he’s doing (claiming to work long hours when he’s really in the EV simulator), they haven’t had sex for a very long time, and they argue frequently in terse shouts. It’s exactly like if you took two Klingon dudes and gave them dialogue from some sort of self-help video about a failing marriage. The dialogue itself is banal and cliched; it’s the fact that it’s happening between two Moclan tough guys in Worf-like laconic deadpan that’s supposed to give it an ironic twist. That is something, I suppose. It is not enough.
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