The town of Salems new management is devil-may-care at best as season 3 opens the hellgates.
But what is the devil?
The devil is the light that reveals the path on the dark side of desire, wishcraft.
John (Oliver Bell), puts down the Essex witches in a heartbeat.
Oliver Bell is quite the frightening little monster child.
Their god is dead or lost in senile slumber, not ours, continues the Baron.
Our god, their devil, is alive.
There are plenty of powerful people in the town who pray to god and worship the devil.
Hathorne, played by Jeremy Crutchley, is becoming quite a fine villain.
Last season he was sleazy and manipulative in his rise to power on the town council.
Now that he has it, hes becoming a megalomaniacal joy.
Iddo Goldberg gives Isaac a lot of depth.
We get to see a little of how Captain John Alden (Shane West) got his reputation.
Hes very fast and accurate with the musket, but finds sometimes you cant keep a good man down.
Well, at least its become shallow after Tituba gets to it.
They didnt go down too well, apparently, because she comes down with a bout of prediction indigestion.
Her visions are positively stomach-churning.
She goes straight to the cooks, still busy at their cauldrons.
I love the old witches in the woods doing the ritual that will make Marys death alive.
Cotton Mather (Seth Gabelas) and Anne Hale (Tamzin Merchant) have a complicated relationship.
Perhaps I should say rat, because the cat in this game is on the run.
Like Popeye, Anne hale doesnt know her own strength.
Her hands come out of nowhere, strangling John Alden against a wooden beam or shutting Cottons holier-than-thou mouth.
Anne Hale is from the Angelique fromDark Shadowsschool of witchcraft.
Mercy Lewis (Elise Eberle) is running a kind of home for wayward girls.
Its not exactly free.
She extracts her pound of flesh, in increments of ounces and pints.
But she plays a mean game of cats cradle.
Very mean, that is until you see the cat thats being strung deserves little pity.
The bone fractures and impossible angles that the old man goes through are extremely well done.
Almost hard to watch, but Salem has done far more stomach churning effects than this.
Something about how they crawl over the face and eyes is really effective.
These are not complaints, by any means.
Bring on the gore.
The whimper of whipped dogs sounds good coming out of his mouth.
Lucy Lawless is not in the credits but Countess Marburg opened her eyes in this episode.
I hope that bodes unwell for the future.
Im wondering when this town is going to get itself a barber.
After the Fall was written by Brannon Braga and Adam Simon and directed by Nick Copus.
Rating:
4 out of 5
