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The Mist Episode 2
The Mist, episode 2, Withdrawal, wastes no time on introductions.
We are right in the middle of that feels like a standoff at the police station.
The phones dont work, there are dead bodies scattered on blood stain floors.
Trigger fingers are itchy, but there is no visible target.
Mia takes a quick pop into the evidence room for something to take the edge off.
Theres a little bit of sweat pooling up over her eyebrows.
Of course, she drives.
Shes already in a fog and acclimated.
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The slows down a little for the scene with the priest.
What happens when order breaks down from an unknown threat?
The church is a much calmer place.
Because of Natalie Raven (Frances Conroy), there is a funereal feel to it.
Her husband got shot by a crazed neighbor lost in a hallucinogenic fog and shes looking for answers.
So is the priest, who wants to give more than solace to his perishing parishioners.
Eve (Alyssa Sutherland) and Alex (Gus Birney) have no time to window shop.
The jock stands there inscrutably watching the Copeland mom and daughter.
You might call it looming if Eve wasnt scarier than the teen athlete.
You cant argue with him.
Hes very upfront and casual about it.
He doesnt have to say hes scared.
That would only lead to panic, and that scares him too.
I see this as an underrated comic performance that works for me in a dramatic way.
The mall manager lets the last drone in the electronics store get unboxed in a search for truth.
There is no real precedent in the book, because of locale and time.
The only forewarning they got was when something rubbed up against their legs.
I dont want to be warned in a horror series based on a Stephen King book.
I want to realize the monsters are eating my leg when its already half gone.
In 20 years, this will be dated based on the technology of the time.
Hey, maybe by the time this review comes out.
But the way the people were trapped in in the supermarket will never change.
That will always be the same.
What are the odds that the female lead would be picked in a lottery?
Pretty good, Id say.
Its okay, Alyssa Sutherland gets hazard pay as lead actress in a horror series.
Too bad you cant say the same for the guy who volunteers to do the exploratory with her.
Unless you said it at the same time he volunteered, like I did.
But I didnt expect he would deserve it.
Sutherland swerves from being in control to the exhaustion of losing it believably.
She gives us four years.
Its here and not here.
Like the communal wine she convinces the priest to share.
Like whatever goes out into the mist.
The show ends on nightfall.
Next week should be a major turning point.
Withdrawal was written by Peter MacManus and directed by David Boyd.
Rating:
3 out of 5
