And Olivia kills everyone, snarking gloriously all the
way and continues to give not one single fuck about everything.
Ok, not really – but damn wouldn’t that be a better show?
Well, we don’t get Olivia rampaging around, exactly,
though she’s still a terrible person. We do get a whole lot of death this episode
– yes we’re racing towards a tragic ending
Firstly, let’s cover the anti-climactic, clumsy summation
of the meta that defined the last season and has been largely forgotten and
ignored this season: Spivak, the Jormungandr, ancient enemy of the Upir. Roman
found out where he was lairing last episode and, with a last minute revelation,
they find the weakness of the near immortal creature. Turns out the reason why
the species are at war in the first place is that Jormungandr are super-duper
vulnerable to upir venom (the war, by the way, is over who gets to eat humanity
unchecked so we’re all kind of team nobody here, but the Upir, even with the
jaw thing, are kind of classier and don’t wear ugly jumpers so we’ll go with
them. I mean, if humanity has to be killed by an immortal predatory monster, it
could at least have the common decency to be well dressed while doing so,
right?)
You’d think all the bed time stories of how super dangerous
the Jormungandr would include a note that “hey just bite ‘em”. So in between
dripping Roman’s venom in the spawning pools of baby manta-ray monsters Roman
and Peter find the big bad Spivak. After ineffectually shooting him a few
times, Roman nibbles on him and lo the season’s uber big bad is killed in the
time normally reserved for advert breaks
I’m quite sure this show is written by people of
integrity and in no way did someone wake up and realise they had a storyline
left and just decided “fuck it, bite him. Death. Back to the angst”. Of course
not. Baby Nadia is rescued (she was being used for creating new Jormungandr and
I’m not even going to try and decide how or why because I can live my whole
happy life not knowing that, and this show likes incest too much for me to examine
any of their breeding plans in detail).
Anyway, back to the angst. Olivia is trying really hard
to be the worst person on the planet despite her son challenging her for the
title. She and her caricature hallucination, need a new body before she eats
herself. Annie and Roman are both AWOL so she turns to very distant and
unwanted third option – Shelley, describing her with all the disgust and
contempt we’ve come to expect from Olivia
Shelley is currently in the care of Johann because she is
depressed, taking all her pills and generally not in a good place – which Olivia
exploits brutally in making Shelley agree to giving up her body (temporarily)
until Olivia can prey on one of her “A-list” children. Johann is duly outraged
and finally snaps, done with Olivia – he plays the recording her has of her
killing Shelley’s beloved uncle and Shelley let’s Olivia have it, strangling
hr, kicking her out and telling her what a terrible person she is. It’s about
time Shelley! Also, while everyone flocks around protecting Shelley because she
is such a gentle, sweet person, we’re reminded that she’s also WAAAY stronger
even than an Upir.
Shelley’s sweetness makes her one of the two people
Johann actually cares about – the other being his very rarely seen boyfriend
who Johann, after a lifetime of suppressing his sexuality and linking it to an
abusive father, has finally decided to open himself to. Awww, maybe this
homophobic portrayal will end with a…
Gaydeath!
Yes, that random guy Johann uploaded his brain into comes
back and stabs Johann to death, leaving Shelly to tell his hardly-ever seen
boyfriend. Of course
Johann’s death isn’t the only major killing this episode –
we saw Annie buy herself a gun last episode. She’s now doctored the bullets to
be anti-upir killers
She then gives that gun and a knife to Peter along with
the news that Roman was the one who killed Destiny. This does not go down well…
At the same time we see that Roman is increasingly going
over the edge – he’s no longer eating the bagged formula that Johann has made
for him – he’s hunting live prey. Humans
Which is when Peter attacks – and it quickly goes against him. Even with a gun and a knife, the upir is more powerful and it’s Peter who ends up stabbed. And eaten. Is this the end of the werewolf?
If so, I’m laying odds that Roman dies next episode so we
can have one big Greek tragedy.
