A lot happens this episode, we have some major changes
and a whole lot of shifting.
Wynonna processes some emotional turmoil from last week.
While some of it touches on her ongoing trauma from the death of her father to
say nothing of her recent kidnapping at the hands of a serial killer. Yet they
also cling to that whole idea of Revenge being so very unsatisfying.
She parties as her own form of therapy but she also has
her review with Doll’s unit. Which is less a therapeutic review and more a
brutal, invasive interrogation (really, they’re either not a therapist or the
worst therapist ever). Wynonna is pissed – and she’s pissed at Dolls who
watched this (he watched her therapy session?) and didn’t intervene.
As she points out dealing with this, she doesn’t want
Dolls to ride to the rescue. She wants to know Dolls has her back and I think
that’s an excellent point to make. Many shows get this wrong and either have the
independent woman as a complete island because any kind of help is weakness OR they
have the most powerful women completely damselled. She makes a clear point:
“You left me alone
with a bureaucratic sadist and I was alone and scared”
He redeems himself with her by faking a second psych eval
to get her reinstated
In the meantime, Wynonna spends some fraught time with
Doc. He recognises she’s vulnerable and fragile and this is not a good time to
have sex with her – but does it anyway. Recognising it and going ahead earns no
points. Seriously this habit of saying “hey this is problematic” and then
deciding to go ahead is an annoying habit to try and have their cake and eat
it. You can’t say “oh hey, this is kind of dodgy” and then do it anyway. You
just show you KNOW you’re doing it wrong.
More conflict follows since Constance has resurrected,
briefly, one of her evil demon children (wiping out her magic for a time in the
process) using a melange of bones from both her kids. The finished result doesn’t
look really healthy with it – but they make a run to leave the area and deal
with it later
Bobo is not amused with this. Bobo wants what Constance
promised – the key to getting them out of Purgatory. Only she can’t deliver
(she’s also not a fan of Bobo not delivering both of her sons intact either)
and he responds by killing her son. Constance is not happy – and even less when
Doc shows up, sensing her pain. He demands Bobo deliver on his bargain – he wants
Constance. Bobo doesn’t want to give her up but Doc points out that Bobo has
made some pretty big promises to his minions – promises he hasn’t delivered on.
Bobo could do without a reputation for breaking his promises
And I could do without Doc referring to Wynonna with “his
woman”
Wynonna referring to Bobo’s coat as something “Lady Gaga deemed
as a bit much”. Points Wynonna. Many many points.
With Constance imprisoned using some woo-woo from the
sadly dead Blacksmith, Doc plots his evil vengeance (which will kill him since
anything that happens to Constance happens to him) while Wynonna is pissed at
Doc’s obsession and her newly twee-life lesson that vengeance is totally not
going to make you feel better. After much back and forth doc agrees to let
Wynonna questioning Constance learning that a) the Earps were cursed by Constance’s
demon lover for killing their demon kids and that b) Doc was cursed with his
immortality by Constance for the same reason. Yes, Doc’s curse wasn’t even
about him – it was about Earp
They then bury her in a salt plane where her magic won’t
work and she’s stuck forever and ever… or until she can wriggle free… I mean,
she’s immortal? How many years does she have? And if she’s not immortal she’ll
die of thirst and, presumably, Doc will die anyway. I’m not sure this is
thought through
I’m also kind of saddened by how quickly this plot line
was resolved. I mean we had demons, demon kids, resurrection and evidence of
scary scary magic and it’s just all been destroyed in one episode. It seems…
pretty anti-climactic. There was a whole lot more potential here. At least she
has a good chance of escaping very soon.
Dolls also has a bonding moment with the Sheriff – yes the
awful sheriff. It turns out he may not be so much of an arsehole nor clueless
about the supernatural. But he recognises he needs to keep that quiet and he
needs to fit in in the town. See, the sheriff isn’t an arsehole, he just thinks
most of the town is. Considering everything, he may not be wrong. And he’s
willing to work will Dolls more. This should be interesting
Now the big one!
Nicole Haut has presented her report to the sheriff (who
promptly suppressed it because this whole public acknowledgement of magic is
bad). This leaves Nicole really torn and she desperately wants to talk to
Waverley about the supernatural
Which is all confused and mixed messagey because Waverley
wants to talk about being attracted to Nicole! After the confusion Waverley
starts to back off – until Gus gives her some excellent advice about going for
what she wants, and even selling the bar to give Waverley the money to pursue
her dreams
Which includes Nicole – and after kissing in the sheriff’s
office, this is definitely happening. Waverley confirmed as bisexual and in a
relationship with Nicole, a lesbian. Actual LGBT inclusion of a major
character!
I didn’t expect this to happen so soon –if at all. I
expected a whole lot of teasing, a lot of hinting and if any real reveal it
would be on the last episode or close to it. Possibly followed by death
(especially after the previous predictable gaydeath. I’m hopeful – Waverley is
unlikely to die and this can only bring Nicole further into the story since she’s
now openly questioning and pushing to learn more about the supernatural. This
has a huge amount of good potential – please don’t screw thus up!
Oh, one more point – Gus sold the bar to Bobo. Oops. And
in that bar is apparently the thing which will let them escape Purgatory. Maybe
Wynonna should have killed that estate agent.
