The pace is definitely picking up now (except in Red Riding Hood's story which is still the weakest of the three by far) but mixing the three together still makes them feel pretty slow. Like, a decent amount of stuff happened in this episode but because it was in three unconnected stories it doesn't feel like very much.
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| His utter disregard for the risk of being caught is obviously part of what makes him dangerous. |
Red Riding Hood's wolf is starting to show his true colours, but since we already saw him murder someone it doesn't come as much of a shock. He encourages Red to skip school and spend the day with him, which she does, but then he says he loves her and they should run away to Paris together and she kind of realises that he's a bit too intense (given that they only met, like, a week ago). So she breaks up with him and he takes it badly. He then engineers a meeting with her father by showing up at the restaurant/bar he works at. It's not clear what his plan is, but he's obviously dangerous.
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| Also he smashed his head into a mirror but in a way that left no visible injury afterward. |
Hansel and Gretel are still at their mum's house, and she's agreed to help them get to Puerto Rico, so they're getting ready to leave when some cops show up. Their mother tells them to hide and says she'll deal with the cops, but then the cops tell her about Hansel's roommate being murdered and she decides (quite reasonably, from her perspective) that Hansel and Gretel need to go with them to sort this out. Gretel, of course, regards this as yet another betrayal.
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| Hansel's not too pleased either. |
But the cops turn out to not be cops. Or maybe they are cops, but they seem to working for the criminals whose money Hansel and Gretel now have. Handcuffed in the back of the car, Gretel decides they need to escape so she uses her cuffs to choke the driver, resulting in the car running off the road and flipping upside down. We don't see what happened to the occupants, but obviously Hansel and Gretel are going to survive, so there's not really much suspense here.
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| This seems more like a pre-commercial break cliffhanger rather than the end of an episode. |
Meanwhile, pig-wolf is playing with the gun he stole and watching
YouTube tutorials on gun safety so that he can go and harass the pigs some more. Which he does. He shows up at middle pig's house and spooks him and his wife. Middle pig chases him out into the street, but wolf moves implausibly fast and is already in his car, which he uses to try to run middle pig down. Middle pig jumps out of the way at the last second, but if he hadn't then wolf clearly wasn't planning on stopping, which doesn't really fit with his other actions so far. He doesn't want to kill them, just get them to tell him who the big pig is. It's like he knew that the pig would jump out of the way because the plot demanded it.
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| Also he has a wolf mask now because... symbolism? |
Then he goes to harass the little pig some more. Little pig has another gun now, but he's clearly still terrified of wolf. This is, predictably, a bad combination. Wolf knocks on little pig's door to spook him. Little pig gets his gun. Wolf phones little pig to demand the name of big pig. Little pig refuses to answer. Someone knocks on the door. Little pig fires several times through the closed door - but it wasn't wolf this time, it was his girlfriend. Little pig sees what he's done and shoots himself in the head. Wolf looks on, apparently horrified.
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| He huffed and puffed and accidentally got two people killed. |
The (effectively) super short episodes are still a major issue, but at least the stories are going somewhere. And two of the three aren't bad. They're not great. There's nothing particular original about them and they've certainly been done better. But they're fine. I probably wouldn't recommend them even if they weren't cut up and spliced together like this, but they're fine.
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| They already know who he is, so this isn't meant as a disguise. |
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