My problem with the show is that Kristen might be too vulnerable with having four daughters to be concern about.
Yeah, I didn't like that episode either for the reasons you stated.Kristen's downfall won't involve her children. It's going to be that horndog grandma.
Last Thursday's episode took things involving Leland too far over the top for me. Kind of detracted from the show and made the episode feel like one of the weakest to date. I am enjoying the chemistry of the cast, but I hope the plot lines become a little bit more credible.
- Walter.
A good episode. Is that cat demonic? I think so because how did it get in that closet?In a strange way, this episode felt more like an episode of "The Good Wife" than an episode of "EVIL".
Renée Elise Goldsberry of course guest starred in over twenty episodes of "The Good Wife" as ASA Geneva Pine on "The Good Wife", before her breakout role as Angelica Schuyler in the Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton. Her character here is a lot more fun than her "Good Wife" character, both more competent and more reckless.
Patrick Brammall is really well cast as Kristen's frequently absent husband Andy. You understand why Kristen married him, you understand why their daughters (with the exception maybe of the oldest) adore him, but you also understand why his mother-in-law scorns him and why Kristen feels the pull toward David. Andy is charming, intelligent, and handsome. He says all of the right things. But there is an underlying selfishness to him. It's why he leaves his family so frequently, and it's why he proposed that Kristen take off mountain climbing in the spring. It's a control move. He's used to be at the center of his family's world, he's used to his absences only strengthening his family's devotion to him. Now Kristen's got this new thing in her life, and he sees that it's giving her something other than him to be excited about. He sees the way the girls talk about Ben, for helping out around the house while he was gone. He's threatened by it, but he's too slick to be outwardly jealous about it. So he frames his jealousy as generosity.
I really like Peter Scolari as the new auxiliary bishop, Thomas Marx. He's decidedly odd, rather bluntly pragmatic, and neither an outright antagonist nor an unwavering ally.
The storyline with the incel, carried over from the previous episode, ended with a grim punchline. Yes, he was too pathetic to even get a mass shooting right. But it's not really a ha-ha joke, because he came very close to slaughtering a group of innocent parishioners in a scenario with too many real world parallels.
Incidentally, the Sixty and their demon sigils are a real thing, identified in the Ars Goetia, one component text of the 17th century text Lesser Key of Solomon. The book identifies 72 demons and their sigils, with 60 in the six highest ranks. So while the show is developing its own mythology, it's drawing heavily on Catholic canon and historical demonology.
Of the Sixty, the ones identified so far, as best as I can tell, are:
- Dr. Leland Townsend
- "Brenda," the little girl wearing the mask on Halloween. Possibly the same as Rose390.
- Dwight Farrell, the husband of the woman who falsely confessed to murder while undergoing an exorcism. He had one of the sigils in the hiding place where he kept his trophies from his victims.
- Adam Gardner, Leland's associate who trained the incel on how to fire weapons.
I thought maybe the cat was the grandmother transformed!A good episode. Is that cat demonic? I think so because how did it get in that closet?
Boy, howdy, are you right about that!Talk about a cliffhanger!
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