Wynonna Earp is back!
And we need to deal with the important things first!
Waverley - that hair
is tragic. But not as tragic as Jeremy’s moustache. No, Jeremy, no.
The gang is all
together hunting Revenants with sniper rifles, a mechanical bull, lots of
alcohol and wit and one liners. They want information about Bulchar, this
season’s big bad and the one who cursed the Earps in the first place.
There’s a lot of angst
though. Wynonna and Doc are not quite talking because of their missing baby
Alice they had to give up last season. Doc is ignoring all of this and avoiding
Wynonna while pouting and moping. While Wynonna is also avoiding the issue by
training extremely hard with Doc and day drinking so much all the while having
lots of sexual tension with Doc and, to a lesser extent, Dolls. So the love
triangle is still on but kind of ok compared to most shows as there’s a
distinct lack of hissing at each other over it.
But there’s a new
threat in town - Vampires. On a stripper bus and wearing super super shiny
clothes. They glamour Nedley who happily welcomes them into the town
From there they
unleash a horrible massacre which the gang investigates. All the dead people
come with extra symbols for Balshur, which Nicole has read about from some
Black Badge files - there have been massacres for Balshur since the 1920s and
now it’s come to town. It also seems to hit Nicole especially hard.
Investigation is delayed somewhat because Nicole and Waverley both get
glamoured by a vampire
Purple fog also hits
Doc’s bar and Jeremy and Doc get glamoured as well (with Jeremy asking the
vampire’s thoughts on Twilight). Doc is taken to the stripper bus to be tested
by one of the vampires who clearly has history with him. She wants to prove
that he’s the real Doc and she’s doing that by torture. This may also be
because of their bad history and also because she doesn’t seem to be especially
amused by the idea that he’s no longer his hedonistic self and now has friends
and stuff.
Wynonna also bails
from the investigation - to visit her mother. Yes her mother is about -
apparently she’s been locked up in a mental institution for some time and it’s
been a dark family secret. She hears voices and some of those voices are about
Balshur - unfortunately she’s not very coherent so she doesn’t have great
information to share. But Wynonna meets Dolls there and he’s happy to get her
her mother’s medical records.
They also run into
sexy purple fog but neither of them is glamoured… much to the squishy vampire’s
unfortunateness. But Wynonna is knocked out by Nicole, Jeremy and Waverley and
taken to the vampire party
There is a huge
vampire party which is full of formal dress and big speeches about killing
people and it’s all gloriously over the top. The plan is for the descendents of
the original families Balshur ruled over will be presented to him as a big
offering while everyone else will be nommed by the vampires. Such fun. But
during all this fun Nicole is very disturbed at the idea she would be a victim
while she claims to always be a survivor. She has issues with these guys
Except Dolls finds
Wynonna in the basement, rescues her and shows her his official Black Badge
guide to slaying vampires (and the instruction manual is just PERFECT). They
duly head to the party with a terrible quip and the fight is on to slay
vampires
Or massacre vampires
because other than glamouring they apparently have no physical skills and once
dead their victims are free of all mind control and can get in with the
killing. Lots and lots and lots and lots of killing (and crafty ploys to find
out who is glamouring who by yelling “Waverly, who’s your favourite vampire!”).
And Nedly declares Purgatory is for the living… mainly. Because this show has
all the lines.
They leave the head
vampire to go to Balshur as a warning and because he has to tell them he has
nothing to offer him which is bad. Wynonna even takes his stripper bus
On that Stripper Bus,
Doc gets free but his History with the vampire who caught him is apparent - and
he doesn’t shoot her when she runs. So there’s another hook
And another hook is that Nicole remembers being a victim of the Balshure cult
But Wynonna and Doc
have a moment, burying some of their issues and making up - and out.
That surviving
vampire goes to Balshur - who makes him eat something unpleasant which is
probably bad
And we end with
Wynonna and Waverley in a car crash in which Waverley is then kidnapped
Soooo many hooks
I love that from the
opening minutes of this episode, Waverley and Nicole’s relationship is clear
and obvious and sexual and loving from the very beginning which is one of the
most beautiful things about this show. Waverley and Nicole are never rendered
sexless but nor is it fetishistic and nor is their relationship forgotten. In
so many of the shows we watch and books we read, LGBTQ identity, if it exists
at all and especially for a main character, is something referred to, briefly,
rarely shown and often forgotten.
Also this show
remains hilarious with the endless quips, one liners - both good and bad (and
open sporking of the bad ones. And Sporking of Jeremy’s moustache. And honestly
“sexy fog” and “please be a surprise Arianna concert” and “what’s your opinion
on Twilight” all get applause from me. Along with every quip about their
vampire masters)
I am kind of
interested in vampires that seem to have little physical ability - but their
glamour is amazing.
We also have our
first completely unambiguous moment where Jeremy confirms he’s attracted to
men, wanting to make out with a vampire… though glamour was involved. And it’s
still played for comic relief so… yeah
