My, my, my! John and Evangeline just hit you where you live, don’t they?
This past week saw them surmount a pretty nasty hurdle and end up cuddling together in bed. John was appropriately clueless about what Evangeline needed to hear as she questioned him about the train-wreck. Is it ever thus? The poor dear couldn’t quite seem to understand that Evangeline needed to know where she stood in his life so that she could figure out what she wanted to do with hers. But then, in desperation, he came through. He probably didn’t know that it was the absolute right thing to say at that moment but he said it. “You are the woman I want to be with – yesterday, today, tomorrow.” No, he didn’t answer Evangeline’s question about train-wreck’s place in his life. But he answered the question she didn’t ask but wanted the answer to just the same – what was her place in his life.
May I say that I fell in love with this couple all over again this past week? Well, I’m sayin’ it. And I know I’m not alone. John McBain and Evangeline Williamson are wonderful together. Yes, they have a pretty powerful physical connection. But their emotional connection is equally powerful – a connection that’s been present from the very beginning – a connection that looks and feels so genuine and so effortless. Michael Easton and Renee Elise Goldsberry are magical as this man and woman who are so obviously falling more and more in love each and every day. From the heaviness of her trying to pin him down about his feelings for the redhead and his inability to answer her questions to the lightness of her admission that she likes his twin bed because it leaves about “that much” space in between them and his admission that he liked having her stay with him and was disappointed when she told him she was ready to go home, they give us all the right stuff each and every time out as John and Evangeline. When she’s got something to say to him, she says it. When he’s got something to say to her, he says it. They’re equals. We feel their closeness. We feel their trust. We feel their contentment whenever they’re together. We feel their playfulness. We feel their intensity. They look like they belong together and they feel like they belong together. Now tell the truth. Have you ever seen another couple that feels as right as this one feels – a couple that leaves us all positively breathless with anticipation - "one string at a time"?
All it takes is for a few scenes like the ones we’ve seen this past week to remind me all over again of why I’m so attached to this couple. And the answer’s so very simple.
It’s because …