We actually have
Wynonna and Jeremy spending social time! Playing pool and Wynonna being very
very distracting by describing how she once gave birth on that pool table.
Which was likely messy
As Jeremy says, this is probably why no-one plays with them. They also talk love life with Jeremy worried about getting close to Robin with all the death in their lives with Wynonna advising him to just embrace it while he has it. But in comes Charlie and Wynonna tries to avoid him because she’s been ghosting him - Jeremy throws her to the wolves and attracts his attention before running away.
There is Awkwardness
but Charlie and Wynonna are now back on. This includes a date in Purgatory’s
fanciest restaurant. A diner. With breadsticks and knives that look like swords
(this is Wynonna’s definition of classy and she and Charley are just really
cute). Wynonna has a lot of self-depreciation and doubt because of the Earp
curse but Charlie is clear he’s ready to run into the fire of her life for her.
Even if he isn’t fully aware of the supernatural yet,
Jeremy and Robin are
invited to a big gay dinner by Waverley and Nicole which sounds like a very fun
night out and Jeremy and Robin are excited talking about it except… Doc
Kate tried to leave
Doc a captured human to eat… and Doc angrily refuses because he doesn’t belong
to her, isn’t her’s and can do his own hunting. She’s super sad because he was
her’s once. She also worried because her tarot woo-woo tells her that Bulshar
knows she’s there.
Doc probably should
have listened far more to Kate because he goes into the woods and attacks…
Robin
Yes, I thought Robin
was dead. But no, Doc controls himself and takes the heavily bleeding Robin to
Jeremy
Amazingly Jeremy doesn’t see “I bit your boyfriend but managed not to kill him” to be a plus and demands Doc leave. Knowing he’s a vampire, Jeremy understands Wynonna’s break up. Jeremy is not happy. He hasn’t got to bite his boyfriend yet
He goes to interrupt
Wynonna’s date to explain what just happened - so she and Charlie decide to
shelve dinner in exchange for some staking action while Jeremy and Robin go to
the Big Gay Dinner.
Staking action
doesn’t mean Doc - oh Charlie uses a holy water soaked whip to trap Doc in his
bar, so he won’t interfere while Wynonna goes to see Kate. They argue a lot
about who is the most special person to Wynonna when they’re interrupted...
Bulshar has also been
up and about - and has raised his wife Constance. She’s a burned, dismembered
zombie, but she has been brought back from death and freed from the salt flats.
She now gatecrashes
Doc and Charlie. Charlie duly freaks out at the sight of the blackened zombie -
and frees Doc so he can use his sudden super strength to knock Constance down
(waaaait, I thought vampires in this didn’t have super strength). They plan to
drop her in the well where all inconvenient people are abandoned on this show.
I hope no-one is drinking from this well. While they bicker, Constance escapes
and steals Doc’s car - which was her car originally
They try to follow
her on foot but Doc’s bloodlust overwhelms him: Charlie has to knock him out to
save himself from being eaten and Doc co-operates
This involves lots of
guns pointing at each other because it’s time for a dramatic confrontation with
lots of snark and with Kate being super snarky and fun. And Wynonna accusing
Kate of magically seducing Doc while Kate retorts that she cannot be blamed for
Doc’s choices (and how sexist it is). She decides to explain her past in a
series of nifty flashbacks
So, firstly Kate is
Hungarian nobility and she came to the US, as a human, to escape her creepy
uncle who is clearly a vampire. Except her parents died on arrival and she was
left to rely on her tarot reading skills to get by
Until she ran into
Bulshar and his
then-wife Constance (the Stone Witch) who wanted her help finding something. She refuses -
not can’t, won’t. And when Bulshar insists, Doc joins his gun to hers in
insisting that Bulshar back down.
So begins their
relationship (including him stealing some of her cards). Except after some time
and she tries to say she loves him and he doesn’t respond - and she expresses
how much she really really wants to set down some roots and build a home while
Doc is happy to keep on moving and drinking from town to town. She decides to go
back to Europe… just as Doc is beginning to cough up blood.
Wynonna accuses her
of abandoning Doc in his time of need but Kate points out he was hardly alone.
Earp was there. They start posturing with guns and knives (which is hilarious)
But they’re interrupted…
Yes it’s Constance
again! Kate and Wynonna abandon their grudges to drive her out.
Over to the big gay
dinner party where things are getting weird. The Bulshar ring has again stalked
Nicole leading to an absolutely perfect mistaken proposal from Waverley. Oh and
Jeremy tells them Robin was bitten by a vampire - who is Doc. And Robin is
overcome by freaky Bulshar woo-woo, talks about the roots talking to him, licks
a potato and ends up kneeling half naked in the barn to try and hear what Bulshar
is whispering to the roots.
That’s a lot of
weirdness over dinner.
Robin snaps out of it
and worries he’ll be seen as a freaky. So Waverley brings up her demonic
posession, Nicole surviving a massacre by Bulshar cultists and Jeremy losing
his parents at a young age and now having the psychic ability to tell when his
friends are deeply afraid (wait wait wait wait what? What? Since when?)
They’re all duly
mutually weird when, yes it’s Constance again!
She hacks around with
a giant sword, manages to grab something of Doc’s before Waverley puts on
Bulshar’s ring… which gives her super powers to drive her out. Nifty.
We have a reunion and
Kate warns them that the ring is super ancient and powerful - and on Waverley’s
finger it now has a new word in Arabic on it. The ring also won’t come off.
Kate and Wynonna find
Constance and they’re both moved by pity - seeing what Constance, an old enemy
of both of theirs, is reduced so completely. Wynonna points Peacemaker and
Constance moves it to point at her head: as Kate notes that it’s no small thing
to be able to choose your own end.
And I salute the
respect they give to this enemy and acknowledgement that no-one deserves this
And they address the
rest of Kate’s history: she left in the hope that Doc would follow her. She
didn’t. And by the time she returned Constance had already made him immortal
and hidden him where Kate wouldn’t find him. Of course, with a creepy uncle,
she has her own source of immortality
So, no, she wasn’t a vampire for as long as she knew Doc - and she actually became a vampire to try and save him. They also realise that Constance stole the tarot cards containing Bulshar’s future… and think that since Wynonna is connected to him via the Earp curse so the same cards could be revealed using her
The end of this is
Bulshar’s motive:
He wants to find the
Garden of Eden
Which is in the Ghost
River Triangle (despite it being like a permanent snow bank. Adam and Eve will
be getting frost bite) and what the Triangle actually hides and protects
I’m not entirely sure
what damage Bulshar could do in Eden or why Eden doesn’t have some better door
guards but everyone is very worried about this. So, ominous.
Epilogues:
Doc wakes in a bar
and Charlie hands him bagged blood giving him another option than eating
people.
Wynonna and Doc have
a Big Moment and he pledges Kate became a vampire for him, he became a vampire
for Wynonna - so he will be there forever no matter what Wynonna needs - and
whatever Alice needs forever and ever. Yes they’re back together again
So, this episode did
a lot!
After 2 seasons of
Jeremy being a stereotypical comic relief and utterly disposable, season 3 has
finally decided to make him into an actual character rather than a punch line.
With an actual relationship with actual kissing. Robin actually is having a
role and not as a victim which I originally feared when he was Bulshared (and
when he was bitten by Doc). They’re cute together. And we even had a one line
back story with Jeremy and a hint of super powers. But it’s also the fact that
Jeremy and Wynonna are spending social time together - they are friends! And
then the big gay dinner (I’ve had more than a few awesome big gay BBQs) with
all four of them being so fun and cute and awkward together. I want more of
this, I want to see them working together more. Wynonna Earp has done
amazing work with Nicole and Waverley being an awesome, cute, very very very
fun couple and it’s wonderful to bring them and Jeremy and Robin together to
treat Jeremy with some of the same respect
I also really really
really like Kate and Wynonna. I was deeply unhappy with them becoming more
hostile towards each other so vehemently. The increasing hostility towards each
other was upsetting in a show which has so many great female relationship but
also, with the sidelining of Jeremy and death of Dolls (and Charlie seemingly
stepping into the Dolls shaped void), has some distinct reduction in meaningful
POC inclusion. And today we had Kate, challenging a lot of assumptions about
her past (like the idea of having Black European nobility - even if noble
Europeans are peddling tarot readings seeking “freedom” is dubious - yes a lot
more dubious than Black nobility), stepping up with some decent expansion of
her history and with her and Wynonna building some really excellent levels of
mutual respect
What ruins it is the
strong implication she is leaving at the end of this episode because that’s a
crying shame - especially since it renders her whole existence as a tool for
Doc’s power and development as he chooses Wynonna above Kate after using her
for her shiny power
I also quite like
Charlie and Doc working together - I hate love triangles. But if they are going
to happen I much prefer them having the odd snark but, again, developing a
level of mutual respect and not turning everything into a dick measuring,
antler butting contest,
