"Caprica" 1.08 Recap: "For the Love of the Gods, Not the Frakkin' Dog!"

We've started calling Caprica "mourn porn" at my house because it has become so chilling and real that it almost feels voyeuristic to watch it. Of course, try explaining that to someone who's never seen Caprica or BSG: "It's about how a choir boy blew up a train that caused two teenage girls' souls and/or avatars to get trapped inside a robot body/virtual world, and then how their surviving parents — with the help of a gay mobster and a femme fatale nun — went simultaneously nuts and destroyed the entire universe."

'Cause, yeah — that sounds real.

Actually, that may be the most terrifying thing about Caprica. Like maybe we're all going about our lives making sure we use ecologically-friendly light bulbs, and taking our cloth bags to the grocery store, and just generally being kind and paying it forward, and somewhere on earth there are five or six crazy-rich/connected people who are about to blow everything right the frak up by playing Monopoly with robots.

Anyway, this week we're back where we started in the pilot, with Joseph and Daniel trying to cope with the loss of their daughters. Only this time, it's less like "cope" are more like "resurrect." Joseph will take his resurrection with a bump of virtual cocaine, while Daniel would just like a side order of psychological torture, thank you very much.

Joseph has gotten himself some new duds for V-world, and about time too, because Tauron produces some of the finest looking men in the 12 Worlds and it was starting to feel like Joseph wasn't even trying.

His guide, Emmanuelle, makes it perfectly clear that the real-life her doesn't look like the avatar her, and my best guesses are either: 1) It's actually Tamara ("Emmanuel" being the Hebrew "God with us" thing from the book of Matthew, and Tamara's got that whole Neo/Jesus thing going on. Or 2) It's his assistant who felt him up a couple of episodes ago, and she's keen to get in his virtual pants if she can't get in his actual ones.

If it were up to Joe, he'd keep wandering around the streets of New Cap City shouting, "Tamara! Tamara!" over and over like Rocky on repeat, but Emmanuelle, at least, is helping him figure out when to duck.

They visit the V-version of Joe's apartment, but it's full of addicts. Some gunplay goes down; Emmanuelle gets shot, but doesn't die, and Joe can't pull the trigger on one of the dealers.