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Performer of the Week: Liana Liberato
BY MATT WEBB MITOVICH
JULY 27, 2024 7:00 AM
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THE PERFORMER | Liana Liberato
THE SHOW | Criminal Minds: Evolution
THE EPISODE | “Stars & Stripes” (July 25, 2024)
THE PERFORMANCE | This season’s Gold Star/North Star case as of late has been a bit dizzying with new heaps of exposition, but this week’s episode, carried by Liberato’s performance, crystalized what’s at stake and make it all feel a lot more human.
Liberato has been increasingly excellent since her weeks-ago debut, up until this point focusing squarely on Jade aka GS5’s laser-focused resolve to do right by the Gold Star mission. But in the wake of fellow Gold Star Damien’s death-by-suicide pact, Jade clearly became a bit unmoored — especially when AIDA CEO Frank Church (a perfectly menacing Tuc Watkins) showed her around his training compound.
When Jade saw young people like herself training for combat and questioned what if anything these innocents had to do with the slew of deaths in Gold Star’s wake, Liberato showed us that Frank’s “strike at the heart of the conspiracy” explanation wasn’t quite holding water. Ditto when Frank led Jade past padded isolation cells and she flashed back to the abuse she suffered in Stuart House rooms just like those; when Frank hailed Jade as an “inspiration” to her peers, you could tell that that “praise” put her ill at ease.
Liberato’s finest work came when Jade met Mila, the teenage trainee Frank said reminds him of her. Mila confided in her hero the “nightmares” she often has, of being strapped face down on a bench in a cell and violated, and in Liberato’s eyes you saw that Jade knew all too well of such abuse. After a flashback to her and Damien, Jade came to fully and soberly acknowledge the deplorable things Frank and others had done to her, then set forth on a mission to free Mila and others, before bringing the Gold Star program to its knees — in selfless and explosive fashion.
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