It’s not like the whipsaw effect if the Spy x Family experience is anything new. There’s always been a really big gap between its best material and its worst (though mostly it does fall inoffensively in the middle). But going from its best supporting character to its worst from last week to this really accentuates the problem. Yuri is a lot to take – always has been. But even within that context there are still variable, as this episode showed.
Yuri is never good, but what makes him really awful comes out whenever he’s directly interacting with his sister and her fake family. There actually wasn’t that much of that this week, so thank Heavens for small favors. The first part was all about Yuri surveilling a writer named Franklin Perkin who’s writing nasty things about the state. Perkin is a small-time loser who lives with his father, using his post office job as a front to disseminate his “treasonous” material. But the Stasi spent most of their time persecuting small-timers like him, so in that sense it’s all pretty on-point.
This is not a trivial thing SxF is sending up here, so the matter of tone is somewhat problematic. The whole Perkin thing is pretty restrained by Yuri standards, but that all goes out the window when he shows up at the Forger house after getting Perkin arrested. Again mercifully brief but basically unwatchable – this combination is Spy x Family at its absolute worst. How in the world Endo or any of his editors believes otherwise is quite beyond me.
Finally, there’s a “Bondman” bit which is more notable for being the longest cartoon-in-cartoon segment we’ve gotten with this series more than for the actual content. Some time is saved for omakes after the end credits, two featuring Anya and one Damian. The funniest bit here is Anya demanding to go to the ocean, going to the pool instead, and then finding out that esper abilities in that environment are more trouble than they’re worth. Seems like we’re about due for a meatier episode, but judging by the preview it doesn’t look like it’s coming as soon as next week.
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