The Mist is left with a bad aftertaste after The Tenth Meal is served at the food court.

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Its not that the gore effects will put you off your food, but people can be so unappetizing.

The cop sacrifices his son to depths of the hungry fog.

His breakdown would almost be heartbreaking if he wasnt the idiot listening to the crazy old lady.

The mall cop is ready to feed anyone into the fog.

Hes been spoiling for a fight from the very beginning.

We all know hes going to go off.

A little while later he remembers hes the one with the gun and enforces an insubordinate mob cop insurrection.

The people in the mall, whove been terrorized inside and out, will follow anyone.

All they need is a little gossip.

Oh, so the chief of police is the evil teenagers dad?

Do we need a full accounting of everyone Eve ever sleep with?

Although, she and her daughter do like to play into peoples insecurities with ambiguity.

First we thought Kevins brother could have been the dad.

Its like Eve specifically picks the people who could hurt Kevin most.

Maybe the mist is all in his head, fogged up from too much gaslighting.

It is certainly a mystery wrapped in a puzzle covered in smog.

Jonah (Okezie Morro) has enough rank to get himself freed from house arrest.

You would think it would follow that orders be damned.

He sets her off to find the rest of the group.

But how does Mia know that Jonah left with another soldier?

Neither of them mentioned it.

They werent wearing uniforms.

Arrowhead must truly be infectious.

Kevin (Morgan Spector) confronts Adrian Garff (Russell Posner) in the paint aisle.

We dont get a multicolored exit though, its all red.

The doting father bashes the kid with a real malevolence.

Tonights episode contains one very cool effect.

Alex once again proves shes stronger than Jay (Luke Cosgrove), the jock who saves her.

Kevin dooms the mall to an orgy of horrors.

Snakes go crawling over security guards, dead ex-husbands push stillborn children onto suckling old mother naturers.

Connor Heisel watches sadly as the whole thing comes apart.

Darren Pettie, who plays Connor, lets everything play out in his eyes.

We see the spell Nathaly Raven (Frances Conroy) cast upon him break.

We see how stupid he now feels for falling for it.

He is prepared to go out in a whimper rather than a scream and its very effective.

He has been fluctuating between being a hard man and the father of a broken little boy.

It turns out that he is the most rounded and empathetic character on the show.

The episode ends on a note of hope, following Kevins destruction.

The Copeland family is reunited.

Eve has her husband back, and the father of her daughter.

This is a different kind of horror than the book.

The Tenth Meal was written by Christian Torpe, and directed by Guy Ferland.

Rating:

3.5 out of 5