When Bill comes to see Jack and - sorry, I’m crying just thinking about this - thanks him for giving him a family, he says it to Jack too. It is the purest form of brotherly love on the planet.Īll they have to do is stick to the script and they can move past this. Jack and Ace are both teary-eyed and telling one another to go fuck themselves before they head off to get ready for the big night. As Chris Farley once astutely said, “Brothers gotta hug,” and guys, they do. He tells his brother, who is really beating himself up over everything, that he is the one who really saved the DWL. He is in service of the story, and he reminds Jack after this Gully mess is over, they can always write a new story. He reminds Jack that it’s just wrestling, and even if he is losing, that doesn’t mean he isn’t going to be impressive (remember, Jen from Continuum will be watching closely). He brings that peace he’s found to, oddly enough, a thing titled Harmageddon. It’s a complete 180 from where we met Ace in the pilot, and yet, the man did literally hit rock bottom, so I believe the transformation. He’s done with winning and ambition and instead wants to lead with kindness. He has seen the bigger picture - watching a man take his last breath, as Ace does at the senior-living facility, will do that to a guy - and has realized that the point of life isn’t competition it’s living in service of other people. He (always comically) makes vision boards. It’s such an honest, heartfelt admission, and Heels has perfectly built Jack up to be able to give it in a believable way.īut Ace has been on a journey, too, this season. They’ve only gotten this far because of Ace, and yes, of course, Jack still carries guilt from the shit he put him through turning him heel. He tells Ace that he should be the one who wins tonight. After tonight, the Spades can move on from this hell.Īs much as Jack understands what has to be done, he’s devastated that it comes at the expense of his brother. Ace has to lose in order for all the Gully problems to go away. Jack has signed the contract with Gully stating that if Harmageddon goes down exactly the way it’s booked - they don’t give away all the details, but we know going in that Ace is supposed to lose and FWD take all the glory - Gully will no longer be able to hang that threat of suing Jack for all he’s worth. It is the perfect bookend to the development of their relationship (let’s give it up for Victoria Morrow, who wrote the episode). Did you ever once imagine that by season’s end they’d be able to have such a lovely, vulnerable, teary-eyed conversation? Sure, they apologized to one another back in that motel room, but this pre-match conversation feels like a much more genuine, healing version of that conversation. Jack was an asshole to everyone! ACE FELL OFF A CLIFF. Look how far our boys have come! They began the season not speaking to one another. It’s a gorgeous and heartbreaking finish to the season.Īnd yet, through it all, the story that shines brightest and wreaks the most havoc on my cold, dead heart is easily that of Jack and Ace Spade, their relationship with each other, and the diverging ways they’re dealing with their father’s death. ![]() The bulk of “High Flying” takes place during Harmageddon, and yet all the trauma, conflict, and tension is given room to crash into each other in and out of the ring. Every major storyline gets some movement in the finale, and even if there’s not much closure to the journey every character has been on this season, there’s enough forward momentum and interesting questions raised that I have all my fingers and toes crossed for a season three renewal. Heels has done a wonderful job of building momentum into its main event of the season - the big showdown between the DWL and FWD, or, more specifically, between Jack Spade and Charlie Gully. Photo: Daniel Delgado/Starz/Heels B) 2022 Starz Entertainment, LLCĪll roads lead to Harmageddon.
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