So a bit of time has passed as they survive in the wilderness, they've got a clothes washing system, people to gather food, a nutter who shows feelings by poisoning others.. as it goes.
This episode is more focussed on bringing more awareness to that supernatural element they've been trying to put in here. At some parts it's the same as other episodes: groan worthy. In other parts, I really did get creeped out. The writers have clearly shown they know how to write for a horror genre so why does that not translate to the present-day horror bits? IT's frustrating.
In present day we get red writing written on a door by Sammy Sammy Sammy possessed by the eyeless person and we get wolves in the middle of the street, all of which was cringe. Again. But in the wilderness, we get the bravest girls a show has ever seen. A house where they discovered a dead body, they decide to do a séance...for fun?! Further on that, they decide to put the candles for said séance on the markings already carved into the floorboard presumably by aforementioned dead guy. Honestly, these girls are bravely stupid, but it led to probably the best scene of the show since the opening of ep 1. Acting all around was great as Lottie, the most fear induced gets taken over and starts making comments of wanting pregnant Shauna's kid. Chilling stuff. This ep also gives a very likely nod to the girl in the opening sequence that dies is in fact Jackie as Shauna gives the same necklace we see on dead girl to Jackie in this ep.
This is then followed by the wild exchange between Misty and Coach. He confesses feelings for her?! Seems staged and he just wants her off his back but if it turns out to be true, wild.
Aside from all of this we follow present day's uninteresting Taissa political campaign, Shauna's kid realises Shauna is having an affair and we follow detectives Misty and Natalie. The Shauna storyline is by far the most grounded at the moment making it more relatable to the characters but it's the Misty and Natalie narrative that ties up all of our characters together but in such a sigh inducing fashion as it is revealed that Misty, with all her quirks, is the Sherlock Holmes of this world. They look at police photographs of Travis' murder site and Misty notices candle wax on the ground across all the pictures and immediately figures out that if you join all the pictures together it forms the image that they found carved in the wilderness. Just need to suspend your disbelief for a moment and appreciate that now 5 episodes in our 4 characters in present day are now physically together in this investigation so lets see how the next few eps ramp up.
P. S. We are now starting to get hints into their descent into madness in the wilderness, perhaps with the entity as a catalyst for it, or more likely, the reason for it.
P. P. S. Jackie was being seen as the most useless person in the wilderness but she did bring everyone together when stresses were heightened so now seeing that it may be her in the season opener is a little sad.
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