The pace of this show is a bit weird. It doesn't feel slow to watch (like, for example, Daredevil) but looking back at the end of each episode it doesn't feel like much happened. There's a lot of little stuff but the overall plot doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Even the things that seem like they should lead to huge developments somehow don't.
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| These are normal questions that every teenager asks. |
In this episode we learn that the Asian goth's sister's death was apparently a suicide, but her diary (which the goth found last episode) is all cheerful and stuff, and in her teenage sister's expert opinion that means she was secretly murdered. There's also the fact that the parents seem to have tried to cover it up, because they wouldn't let her call an ambulance at the time (and also zapped her unconscious with the magic staff).
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| Don't mind me, I'm just hanging around with my magic staff. |
The blerd tries to open the secret passage, but finds the switch has been moved. But while he's searching for it he finds a secret cache of money, passports and a gun. So he takes the gun. Meanwhile, the jock's dad has kidnapped a girl to sacrifice - only actually he hasn't it was just a hallucination, I think? Anyway, he and the goth's dad go to try to kidnap a homeless man instead, only for the police to show up before they can.
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| Don't worry, she's not real (I think?). |
So the goth decides to go to the cops, and blerd goes with her (after trying and failing to talk her out of it), but before they can report either of the two murders they suspect, goth's dad and jock's dad show up together and seem real chummy with the cops. Then they hack into some files from the fake cult and find out that one teenage runaway (is that where the name comes from? I assumed it referred to the protagonists) has disappeared from the church every year for the last 15 years. But before they can do anything with that information, the blerd gets lured outside and kidnapped.
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| He's pointing it at a mirror for some reason. |
There's a bit of interaction between the jock and the cultist (#fakecult) in this episode, with her finding out that he saved her from being raped and him fighting with his jock friends about it (because they want him to apologise for not letting them rape her), and then they end up at her house and she shows him the coloured light thing that happens when she takes off the bracelet.
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| The dialogue in this scene was really bad. |
The sisters don't have a lot to do this episode, until the dinosaur shows back up at their house. It first attacks the little sister but then the nerd realises it obeys her commands, and then their parents come home. They're about to explain things (probably not fully but) and put their plan into action to leave town and escape the (real) cult, but it turns out the goth's mum has had them investigated and shows up to let them know that she knows all about their plan and where they're planning on going, so that puts an end to that.
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| Oh, that's where we left the dinosaur! |
And the (fake)-cultist's mum is getting weirder. First there's the bit where she's hanging out with the old man again and he says something that I couldn't make out at all (I replayed it four times, still no idea) and she strips naked and gets into bed with him, and something under the sheets glows. It's creepy either way, but I really hope that's not her father. Then later she has a conversation with her husband and I think maybe she's planning on sacrificing him?
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| Seriously, what the fuck? |
I'm still enjoying this show, but I'm beginning to suspect that it's building toward a conclusion that's going to be very unsatisfying. Things already keep getting resolved in ways that seem to waste a lot of their potential. I think I'll probably end up enjoying the whole series but then never thinking about it ever again.
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| "How embarrassing. I was sure I had a girl tied up in here." |
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