Review: Interrogator “I’ll Owe you a Favour”

After what feels like a forever break, Interrogator returns with a new episode…finally.

I’ve said this in the review for “Someone Else’s Nightmares.” When you take a week between episodes, it kills momentum for the show. Then when you take into account a show that is narrative heavy like Interrogator. Can you imagine a narrative heavy show, like Game of Thrones, Adventure Time, or Steven Universe taking weeks off in the middle of a major plot? The show is dead in the water. When you take a month off, it’s pretty much game over.

And that’s how I feel about how Interrogator right now. Any drive I have to continue watching is dead. And if it weren’t a part of my job, I wouldn’t be watching anymore, and waiting for the whole series to drop so I can watch it. That’s the extent of all of WarhammerTV’s animated offerings. I can do without the episodic drops. At this point, just drop the whole series and let me just binge it all.

Don’t get it twisted, though. Because if it were a regularly released series, Interrogator would be phenomenal series. I tell everyone to watch this…when Games Workshop is done releasing episodes. I love Jurgen and Baldur. These two are the misfit buddy cops I sorely needed in my life, save for the comedy. So, with all of the complaining out of the way, let’s talk about the actual meat and potatoes…”I’ll Owe you a Favour”.

For the first three episodes, I was stuck with watching Interrogator on my phone. You can say I was very lazy and didn’t feel like putting my pc together. I honestly feel like I did myself a disservice. Why, you may ask?  Well, for as great as this looked on a tiny screen, Interrogator looks so much better in a desktop setting. Having a closer view to see more detail, and actually able to make out minute details in the background make all the difference.

Now, there’s a lot more to delve into, because we get to finally meet Jurgen’s debtee, Aedo. Of course, Baldur is seeing the light for how miserable and screwed Jurgen is. Aldo is not someone to mess with. My guess is the metal skull attached to some apparatus arrached to Aedo’s right eye. I swear, the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium is weird. Aedo was a high ranking doctor (Primus-medicae) who dropped out and went full drug kingpin thanks to his connections.

Seeing how the drugs are made, and…this is fucked up. Gheisthaven is something else. The drugs Jurgen is addicted to is literally made from the ashes of tweakers who can’t afford the debt they’ve accrued. And Jurgen is definitely in a pile of it right now. Baldur is finally putting things together, and Jurgen knew about this, and took the pills anyway. So, of course, it comes down to a fight between Baldur and Jurgen.

There’s a lot to digest this week, and most of it revolves around the drug, and Jurgen’s ties to it. Like in most lore in the Warhammer 40K universe, there is never a good team. It’s always a fight to not be the most screwed up side of the fight. And Jurgen is right at the bottom of this fight. Ultimately, I think the first four episodes was an “Avengers Assemble” type of scenario where Jurgen just falls into getting his group back together so he can find Bellona.

To get myself back on track, I’m just glad Interrogator is back. It’s been a month, but I was able to binge the first three episodes so I can actually remember what’s going on. I want to reccomend this show everyone, because I feel Interrogator is a phenomenal glimpse into the Necromunda world, and a very small piece of a small corner of the Warhammer 40K world. I just want a more frequent release schedule.