The fallen angel Samael gets back to his roots on this weeks Salem.
Instead, it nails a young seditious savior to a tree and promises a hasty fall to predetermined end.
Yes,Salemis coming to an end and the series ties up one major loose branch quickly.
The fig doesnt fall far from the Newton.
When he saw an apple fall from a tree, he realized that the forbidden fruit was knowledge.
Does he ever get tired of being wrong?
The Baron has become very interesting as he plays himself off himself at every turn.
In the sixties, the older generation worried that the kids would be fucking in the streets.
The Weathermen promised it in all their flyers.
Paul McCartney sang about doing it in the road.
Screwing in the street is what earned the righteous reformer that scalp tattoo.
Is it me, or has that F on his forehead never been so pronounced?
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Ann Hales Dorian Gray altar ego fits her well.
She steals Glorianas baby right from out of her womb.
Cotton quickly takes her at her word when she says witchy kids grow up fast.
He is a true enabler.
Cotton is as willing a victim as any man under the thrall of a magnetic magician.
The lobotomy that Anne Hale gives Cottons baby mama has to be the best gross-out scene of the season.
It only grows to give us an even closer inspection of the ocular disruption to come.
You cant close your eyes fast enough.
Mary Sibley is this generations Angelique, fromDark Shadows.
A young witch in love, she is sad, determined and irresistible.
All the most powerful men have more than a crush on her.
Beelzebub steals longing glances as she coquettishly poses in her form fitting corset.
All these men would die or kill for Sibley.
And yet, she knows that isnt the measure of her power.
Witchcraft is a liberating force.
Her affair with the Baron is revealed to both John Alden and to her son.
Alden knows it is the price she pays for information, but that doesnt make it sting any less.
The boy is all too happy to have his bride-to-be deflowered before the wedding night.
Hell, or should I say Heaven, he wouldnt even mind if she was defiled.
Hes all in favor of debauchery of all flavors.
Of course, the upcoming nuptial is the dirtiest secret of all.
Aldens new family tradition includes forging his own swords.
Im going to miss the Essex witches.
Throwing themselves on their ceremonial daggers in a mass sacrifice that predates Jonestown is quite an exit.
The power of mass-death is strong and this was a powerful episode.
The Man Who Was Thursday was written by Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders and directed by Jennifer Lynch.
Rating:
4.5 out of 5
