This, the penultimate episode, basically just moves all the pieces into place for the climax. Put everyone in a position where a violent confrontation is the only possible resolution and then somehow get them all into the same location. Yes, all three stories are going to be "connected" by coincidentally resolving at the same place and time. OK, there are other connections, but they're really not important at all. And I still think it would have worked better to tell each story separately, even with these connections, because that would have given us the opportunity to put the pieces together as we watched the second and third stories.
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| OK, so he's one of the three pigs, but also a cop. I can't work out if this is a double meaning or a mixed metaphor. |
To make sure the Big Pig and Good Wolf can't avoid their confrontation, Good Wolf vandalises Big Pig's car and briefly kidnaps his son, before realising he's gone too far and going to the good detective for help. She's also realised that Big Pig is crooked and agrees to help him. He can't stay at home now since Big Pig is coming for him, so he goes to the hotel where his friend (Red's father) works, and the peaceful resolution is taken off the table when the good detective gets murdered. Part one of this ridiculously circuitous plan is now in place.
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| She is suddenly very non-judgemental about his many crimes. |
Meanwhile, the Bad (teacher) Wolf kidnaps Red Riding Hood's friend and uses her to lure Red into a trap. Also he kills her (the friend). But Red gets away and now Bad Wolf is on the run from the cops. Coincidentally, Big Pig is the cop assigned. So there's another tenuous connection. Then Bad Wolf kidnaps Red's grandmother - for reasons as yet unknown - and disguises himself.
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| I can't believe the detective was killed by... this guy. Who has not been important in any way until now. What a twist. |
We know that Bad Wolf knows about Red's connection to the hotel through her father, but it's still not clear why he then decides to go there. Obviously it's because everyone has to be at the hotel for the final episode, but I don't know what the character thinks his reason is. Then again, they seem to have taken the lazy option of writing him as "generic crazy" so nothing he does has to make any kind of sense. The Red Riding Hood story really is the weakest of the three by far.
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| He is ridiculously good at kidnapping people except for Red herself. |
And finally, Gretel arranges to meet up to exchange the money for Hansel, but obviously she doesn't trust the bad guys so she and her army/gym friend set up an ambush and manage to kill all but one of the bad guys who show up there. she follows the last dude back to the hotel and sees him reporting to Red's dad's girlfriend, who is apparently in charge of this whole gang. Which I guess makes her the Witch? These connections between the stories really don't help at all, and the fairy tale analogies are complete nonsense.
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| I love how they're just openly discussing their many crimes in the hotel lobby. |
So now literally everyone is in the hotel (or soon will be) and they're all ready to start trying to murder each other in earnest. The last episode is going to be an absolute clusterfuck. It'll probably be quite entertaining to watch, but it's not going to make any sense at all, written out. It's not that the show's hard to follow - it really isn't - it's just that linking the three stories together doesn't really make any sense and makes it very hard to explain what's actually going on in a particular episode.
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| His disguise is literally incredible. |
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