There was sadness aplenty with some scant glimmers of hope mixed into a tantalizing and compelling new episode of Witches of East End this week. The aftermath of last week's shocking and heartbreaking cliffhanger led to some inevitable consequences that brought the Beauchamp family saga full circle while raising some new questions. Meanwhile, Killian and Dash dealt with their own varyingly bizarre issues.
Watching Joanna respond to losing her daughters yet again was gut-wrenching, and Julia Ormond gave a touchingly believable performance that was most tragically seen when Joanna tried to take her own life in the bath. Luckily, Wendy was on hand to keep her sister alive against her will, throwing in some poignantly needed quips to let Joanna know that she had to keep fighting - not that Wendy was giving her a choice, thank goodness. Wendy's next move was a difficult step, not least of all since it required a team-up with Freddie, whom she'd bitterly ousted from the house after Freya and Ingrid's bodies were found. But the only way to bring the girls back was to seek help from the King, which meant that Wendy and Frederick had to go to Tarkoff (still alive and kicking despite the scorpion snack Freddie treated him to last week...man, this guy is hard to kill!) and encourage him to complete the ceremony placing the King's spirit in Tommy's body. Le sigh.
I have to say, once the King returned, he was kind of making me chortle almost immediately with his alternatively dry humor and saccharine promises of love and forgiveness that seem thinly veiled enough to cover some considerable bad intentions underneath. Tarkoff, at least, was discarded for now due to his unrequested murder of the girls, and it was fun to see him cast into a cell. Once Wendy and Freddie returned home with the King, Joanna was significantly less than thrilled to see her dad, since she insists he absolutely cannot be trusted and there are strings attached to everything he does. While I'm inclined to believe her continued distrust of this overtly sketchy character, I also agree with Wendy that they didn't really have much of a choice but to let him help, as he was the only one capable of saving the sisters.
Oh my Frillian!
While the Beauchamps were engulfed in their family drama, the Gardiner brothers were enmeshed in their own issues after the huge fight they had last week, in what I consider to be the weaker part of this episode. Was it even necessary for Dash and Killian to have their own subplots this week, given the major crisis that was on hand? I really would have liked to see them involved in trying to get Freya and Ingrid back, but instead Dash had a weird tryst and Killian found some new clues about the weird shenanigans of Eva and her family (if we thought that plotline was over, not so much!). Eh. At least when Killian found out about Freya's death, he had a visceral reaction, clutching her body and then spending some time miserably overcome by grief before stumbling upon a statue that led him on a path to Eva's great-granddaughter (hello again, Bianca Lawson!). But Dash's grief for Ingrid was played off in a rather shallow vein, since his Bent Elbow sorrow-drowning was interrupted by Raven, a new gal in town who swept him off to the notorious storeroom for a steamy encounter. I'm really disenchanted with the uneven way Dash has been portrayed in the last few episodes. Do we really believe he'd be so casually jovial with Raven, post-tryst, so soon after learning what happened to Ingrid? Hrmm. Anyway, we later learned that Raven is much more than a sexual thrill-seeker. She's also the agent newly arrived to the scene of the dead body of Dash's blackmailer that recently washed up on shore. That, at least, should provide some interesting fallout.
What did you think of this episode? Share your thoughts in the comments! And don't forget to catch an all-new Witches of East End, Sunday on Lifetime, 9/8c.
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Oh my Frillian!
RIP Tommy. If only there's a way to kill Gramps without killing the dude from General Hospital so Aunt Wendy won't feel so down and unlucky in love.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what made Ingrid decide to stay on. Either she's naive enough to fall for her grandfather's lies, as she has done before with Dash, or her underlying interest to see Asgard (as she's been into witch culture and history before the start of the show) made her curious enough to stay on and see what happens.
Although I do hope that the reason she decided not to join the other Beauchamp girls is to just keep an eye on dear ol' gramps and her brother.
I agree, it would be awesome if Tommy could make it through this. Cool theory about Ingrid, that makes sense since we already know Freddie is instinctively loyal to his grandfather, although he's since turned against the king's violent methods. Ingrid could make sure the King doesn't do anything too crazy until the others return, which Freddie probably wouldn't do much to fight. It's true, however, as you also mentioned, that she does tend to want to investigate things for herself and give potential baddies the benefit of the doubt, so it's a toss up!
ReplyDeleteEh, I don't know if Dash was being "casually jovial". At least to me, he seemed to be drowning his sorrows pretty effectively with savage, stupid sex.
ReplyDeleteHi, there am I again! I was a little disappointed by this episode. I imagined some ritual and chanting in order to bring those girls back with the dark spells from the Gardiners. Just to have the King return to remove the death from those girls was little bit letdown for me. While I hate those subplots, Raven is interesting because she's sassy. I loved her in Everwood and What About Brian.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what to think of the King. But surely he isn't reformed. There must be a bigger plan. At least I was happy to see the King reprimanding Tarkoff. While the King has some ulterior motives, he won't let anyone come near his family. With the girls revived, does that mean the curse is removed? The King remarked he could do something about the last life of Wendy.
Please, I'm done with the Eva storyline. It was okay when she died. To see her return in a form of her great-granddaughter was a little bit eh. Although I was shocked to see her alive and immediately thought that she had a bigger plan after all before learning it was her great-granddaughter.
I saw a little goof: When Killian had that pointy thing on Dash, you could see the tip of that thing bending a little. That had me laughing.
Kudos for Wendy for sticking through.
I'd actually prefer to think that's what it was :)
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you on pretty much all these points! :) I also loved Sarah Lancaster on What About Brian; hopefully her character will get some good development. Soon done with the Eva plotline. Lol about the sharp object bending, I didn't see that!
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