This week we have
Uncle Bubba interrupting Bea and Isaac’s alone time… and Bubba?
Hmmm
He’s amusing but he’s
such a bumbling buffoon that he kind of makes me cringe for every second he’s
on screen
He’s interrupting Bea
and Isaac’s alone time because he thinks he’s being haunted by an evil clock.
He warns Garvey and Russ not to touch it because bad things will happen
Russ, who isn’t in on
the big secret, of course touches the clock. He and Garvey are sucked into
demon clock world. No-one is amused by Bubba over this. Bubba explains who may
have a grudge against him (he owes someone money and slept with their wife) and
Isaac and Bea have absolutely no time at all for him referring to women as
“bitches”. Because this show is twice as aware on gender and race issues than
pretty much anything else out there
Continued argument
leads to Bubba and Isaac also being sucked into clock world
Clock world is spooky
black and white with occasional clockwork people because they know all about
the spooky. Russ wants to touch things and leap in while Garvey shows her far
greater experience of random woo-woo - and of course Russ hears all about the
family history so he won’t do silly things like not listen to Garvey
They grab the man who
hated Bubba to fill them in about the clock. He’s not co-operative and Bea
absolutely refuses to allow Calvin use violence to coerce him because that is
not who they are. However she does use her cat to threaten him. What her cat
does we don’t know but it seems to involve turning into a much bigger, scarier
cat
Now more reluctantly
co-operative the man explains that he trapped a poltergeist called Agnes in the
clock and then fed her 80 odd souls to make her super powered. Agnes now thinks
she’s god of her realm but still serves him
He’s right about all
but the last part, as he too is sucked into the clock.
In clock world Garvey
and Russ are confronted by a huge amount of spookiness and Agnes: Garvey
manages to hold them off with her own magic for a time - and Russ is extremely
co-operative and quick to help, cutting his own hand and offering himself up as
a battery. When she collapses he also refuses to give her up to save himself
It doesn’t save
either of them but he tries. They end up being forced to lure Isaac in because
Agnes wants his super special immortal soul - and it looks like Isaac isn’t in
a position to fight her.
But Bubba,
communicating with the outside and drawing on his propensity to be struck by
lightning (it isn’t really explained but I’m not questioning it because I kind
of just want this to be over)
And so the say is
saved, Bubba is duly kicked out with some nice words and Rus handles everything
well. Sure he faints at the sight of blood but he seeks out Garvey to promise
to keep her secrets and give her a necklace. He’s waaaay nicer than I expected
May and Calvin
continue to have tension and worry over where they’re going and May decides to
put the breaks on things. I’m not even sure why - I mean I can get her saying
she’s going too fast but call it all off? Maybe I just have low tolerance for
will-they-won’t-they-on-and-off-and-on-and-off relationships
I have to say I’m
surprised by Russ - I like that we’ve taken a mortal exposed to the
supernatural and had him fully embrace it, embrace the people he still cared
about and not become hostile or fall apart. And, as a young man/older teen he
seemed to fully leap in on trhe coolness of it all
And, for all the danger at al, thinking back to my own self between the ages of 15-21? I think “awesome” would be a more than reasonable reaction. I like this, especially since there was already an indication that Russ wasn’t a super good guy and May is already wary of him (while at the same time being so reasonable and understanding about how she can’t just forbid this relationship. Though the app on her phone is super creepy).
But on the whole I’m
just not sure why this episode is here? Bubba? Russ?
