Mary Sibley takes the frog from her husband’s throat in Salem season 2 episode 3.
Here is our review.
SPOILER ALERT:Dont read until youve seen it, really.
The first sentence is too much.
Every episode this season opens with a scary kid segment and they save Lucy Lawless until the end.
It works, scary kids are evergreen horror visuals and waiting for Countess Marburg brings a kind of anticipation.
This timeSalemtied it together.
Then she rises from the well like scary little girl inThe Ring.
The people of Salem dont even bat an eye.
I realized the connection as soon as I saw the kid throw up.
Sibley is facing quite a formidable foe.
Probably the only one I will be sad to see her overcome.
You dont want to see someone one-up Xena, Im still getting over the wholeSpartacusdebacle.
The Sibley dynasty is not unlike the Corleone dynasty.
They face threats on all sides, some personal, some merely business.
Those scars look very painful.
I kept thinking about Richard Pryor in his second concert movie talking about getting washed after he burned himself.
Okay Richard, were gonna bathe you soon, get ready.
And then when the water hit his singed flesh, it was an exercise in pain.
I thought about that as Mercy was reaching for her friends face.
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I despise Hathorne (Jeremy Crutchley).
Hes such a bossy bitch, a pompous puritanical pussy.
Cotton Mather (Seth Gabelas) really is a buffoon.
Hale has a real problem.
His eye-rolling asides now have a tinge of Regan fromThe Exorcistin them.
Marys son (Oliver Bell) develops a fondness for pretty things.
Isaac Walton (Iddo Goldberg) is a popular little fucker, isnt he?
Even with the clown-red eyes and the leech-looking pox, he still gets regular visits from the witchy candy-stripers.
Dr. Wainwright (Stuart Townsend) brings humor and edge-play to post-op.
Talk about bedside manner, the good doctor wants to be bad with Sibley.
Townshend looks like hes having a ball.
Hes a scientist, a necromancer and a free thinker in a land where thoughts are costly.
Mary teases, but Wainwright squeezes a little too tight.
Not quite as tight as Gyp Rosetti got onBoardwalk Empire, but it was getting there.
Stay away from the light.
The goat head magic and the anti-wizardry of John Alden were the only home-spun magic in Salem tonight.
It is really Mary Sibley who holds it all together.
She is the heart of Salem.
The only magistrate in the township that has any visions at all.
She may be well ahead of her time, class and social standing, but she is no Delilah.
She is a Samson with a sweet British smile.
Rating:
4 out of 5
