Tell Me a Story: Madness

A bunch of stuff happened this time, and I'm sort of starting to see where the fairy tale influences come in. It's pretty tenuous and I'm still not sure what the point of it is though. There's definitely not enough there to say that they're based on the fairy tales. And it still makes no sense to have all three stories going on at once.

Just your standard rich people's party.

Hansel and Gretel do basically nothing this episode. Their mother and stepfather are having a party, and they decide to stay upstairs rather than explain who they are and why they're there to everyone. That works fine till Gretel decides to go down to the party and things very awkward for her mother and some of the guests. She goes over the story of how their mother left their father (and therefore them) and never came back for them when he died, but it seems like they were both adults at that time and it doesn't seem like they wanted anything to do with her then either, so it's a bit unclear why she's so resentful after all this time.

Also she painted flowers all over her room.

We also get a bit of backstory on Red Riding Hood, and hers makes a bit more sense. She's upset with her father because she believes he was cheating on her mother, and her mother fighting out led directly to the car crash that killed her. This chain of events obviously isn't really her father's fault, but she's a teenager and her mum died so it's an understandable reaction at least.

Lucky for him this teenager has absolutely no adult supervision at any time.

Meanwhile, the teacher-wolf goes and murders the arsehole "friend". So that's why he's the wolf. It's not clear if he intended to murder him all along or just get rid of the photo of him kissing Red, but he wasn't at all hesitant about it, and he seemed quite well prepared for cleaning up the crime scene. It doesn't go quite according to plan and he almost gets caught, but he seems to have gotten away with it so far.

You wouldn't expect to be in the show this much when your character dies in episode one.

Meanwhile, pig-wolf is hallucinating his dead girlfriend, and she's trying to talk him out of his insane revenge plan, but he's not having any of it. So he spends half his time arguing with himself and the other half harassing the two pigs whose identities he's managed to find out. Oh, he also acquires a pig's head, which he puts a mobile phone into and throws through a window, so that he can phone it and demand the name of the third pig - the one who actually murdered his girlfriend. He says if they give him the name of the killer he'll leave the two of them alone, but at this stage they're more afraid of big pig than of him.

This seems unnecessarily theatrical.

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