The rot, the carnage and what’s in the basement

Before I get to the meat of this review, I would like to make a request: Can we please nominate Harold Perrineau for an Emmy? His appearance on today’s episode of OUT OF on MGM+ was simply outstanding.

That’s what the episode itself was like. Much of it dealt with the fallout from Tian-Chen’s tragic death last week. Through Boyd’s flashbacks, we get a few more glimpses of this horrific scene. It’s cruel and hard to watch. In a series with a lot of blood and violence, this was still one of the most horrific moments we’ve ever seen.

As day breaks in Fromville, they find Boyd in the barn, muttering to himself in Chinese. After being released, he rushes towards Tian-Chen’s body, crying. “I’m so sorry,” he says. “I am so sorry.” It’s heartbreaking.

They later hold a funeral for her after Kristi and Jade do their best to make her body presentable. It’s a really moving scene. There are a lot of them in this episode. Kenny and Jim return to town with the bounty of vegetables they found, only to learn the terrible news. Poor Kenny lost both his parents to this place. When Boyd later reveals that he was forced to watch and repeats the line Tian-Chen told him, Kenny collapses again.

But it’s not just an emotional episode. There are also some pretty big reveals and two new mysteries to unravel. We’ll start with that.

• The first new mystery is Fatima’s very scary pregnancy. She was sick. She can’t keep the food down and even the smell of it makes her sick. She spits blood. There’s something wrong with her teeth. They visit Marielle and she says everything seems normal, but she doesn’t exactly work with the latest medical technology. Later, when Fatima sees the bushels of spoiled vegetables, she smells them and we immediately know that it smells good to her. She grabs a handful of the blue-rotted roots and begins to eat ravenously. I think it’s safe to say that that’s whatever is inside her not a human baby. I have a very bad feeling about it.
• The second big mystery occurs at the very end of the episode, when the phone rings in Jim’s house. He records it nervously and at first all we hear is noise. Then a little boy’s voice comes from the other end. “Dad,” says the boy. “It’s Thomas.” Thomas, who died as an infant when he fell off the changing table. I’m not sure what to make of it, but I feel like it’s just the evil of the city whoever He turned his head – and just as his daughter Julie turned him off because he couldn’t pull himself together.

The big reveal is also something of a new mystery, although I think it brings us closer to an answer. When Tabitha was awake in the real world, she used the address in Victor’s lunchbox to find his home. Here she met Victor’s father and apparently passed out because she wakes up a little later on the couch. Victor’s father is understandably suspicious and nothing Tabitha says can allay his suspicions. Your story is too far away. But when she mentions the children locked in the tower, his behavior changes.

We learn that before his wife and children disappeared, she was having visions – nightmarish visions of children trapped in a tower – after they dropped acid one last time. “I think I was sent here to find you,” Tabitha tells him. “I think you were sent here because of what’s in the basement,” he replies ominously.

He takes her to the basement where he keeps dozens and dozens of paintings, all painted by Victor’s mother. They show us Fromville and its monstrous residents as well as the creepy children and the boy in white. It reminds me a little of Victor’s childhood drawings.

Here we see the Faraway trees, the stone slabs from Jade’s tunnel adventure, a fanged monster, a lighthouse, the forest. I’m sure fans will study these images in detail and will likely come across more clues and interesting tidbits.

I’m once again very impressed with this season. The F-bombs have all but disappeared, which is a pleasant change from the almost incessant rants of last season. Again, the swearing doesn’t bother me, it just feels like laziness in the writing when the characters say the F-word so frequently.

The characters also do a little better when it comes to communication, although I wish Boyd would talk to Jade about what he saw in the tunnels. And Kenny’s idea of ​​burning the monsters in their sleep isn’t a bad one. I might prefer catching one to Boyd’s idea.

One thing is for sure: when the credits rolled, I was hungry for more. I’m glad they put out this weekly publication so we can all talk about it and make our predictions and make our fan theories and everything else, but sometimes I wish I could just mess up the whole thing at the moment.

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