She Wants Revenge

There is nothing more dangerous than someone who holds onto anger. It’s not healthy for the person holding it, of course. But that’s not a lot of comfort for the people their anger burns.

The Countess is angry. And she’s ready to start taking her revenge. Revenge for what is a little hazy. As far as I can see, it’s been her screwing over everyone else. 

We start with her going around to several people, giving them promises. She tells Will she wants to marry him. Then she turns right around and tells Donovan she wants to be with him, and only him forever. At the same time, she’s sneaking off to visit Valentino. She’s weaving a web, and it appears that everyone’s going to get stuck in it.

Meanwhile, Ramona’s not done. Donovan visits her, telling her that he’s drugged the Countess and now is the perfect time to strike. She then tells him exactly why she’s so intent upon making the Countess suffer, even after all this time.

We see a heartbreaking flashback of her returning home to her family. When her mother dies, her father’s Altzimers take control of him.

After he’s attacked by some home invaders, she tries to turn him. But this only heals his body. She can’t heal his mind.

While this is going on, Alex is looking into the herd of vampire children. She tries to get them to come to the hotel, so she can take care of them. Strange how Alex wants to take care of every child but her daughter.

The vampire kids don’t care to come with her. Some of them, unwilling to drink human blood, are sick. Some are just having too much fun to care. As they’re killing indiscriminately and leaving bodies everywhere, I can’t imagine they’re going to last without help much longer. 

A lot was going on in this episode, it can be hard to keep track. So you could be forgiven for noticing something.

The episode is called, ‘she wants revenge’. But there are three characters there that might refer to. And the next episode is, ‘she gets revenge’. I don’t think she is the Countess. 

What do you think? 

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Season seven of Dexter starts in medias res. Dexter is rushing to the airport. He tries to stop and get gas, but his card is declined. He seems frantic, scared. He’s pulling wads of money and fake passports out of a go-bag.

It seems very much like he’s running. 

But after a few moments, we cut back to the church. From there, the story is picked up right where the sixth season left off. Deb is seeing Dexter for who he is, maybe for the first time in their lives.

Here we’re treated to a scene that feels genuine. Deb is trying to wrap her mind around what she’s seeing. Her brother, the only person she has in her life, has killed a man.

Granted, it’s a man who brutally, spectacularly murdered people. But still, it’s murder.

Much of the joy I got from this episode came from watching Deb put the pieces together. This is something you can only get after investing in season after season of a show. All the little things that didn’t give her pause before are falling together now. All Dexter’s misdirections that individually weren’t enough to catch her attention are piling up. It’s enough to send her back to her coping mechanism, working out too much. If you’ve been watching the series along with me over the past few months, seeing her running on the treadmill, barely holding back what must be a flood of tears, was familiar and upsetting. 

Deb finding out about Dexter doesn’t worry me. She’s not going to turn him in for anything. But the problem is, she’s not the only one on the trail of something. Maria found Dexter’s blood slide at the church, the one he made from Travis. And she’s starting to put the pieces together too. 

The pieces for her are a bit different, though. They include her former lover and best friend, wrongfully accused of being the Bay Harbor Butcher. If she figures out what Dexter is, she’s going to have a lot of incentive to turn him in. She can clear Doake’s name, and discredit Deb as lieutenant. 

Honestly, I don’t see a downside for her. Dexter might have to kill her. 

We only have two seasons to go before we get to the brand new episodes in November. I have a feeling that it’s going to be a hell of a ride.

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If there is one thing that horror teaches us, Killer Queens, it’s that the past is never as buried as we think it is. 

No matter how deep we try to bury it. 

Fiona’s past is coming back to haunt her now. The Council has come to visit because Madison is missing.

Well, Madison is dead, but the Council doesn’t know that. 

One member of the Council, Myrtle, is especially keen to prove that Fiona killed Madison. She was a student at the academy when Fiona became Supreme. And even then, she was suspicious of her. She bespelled Spalding, that his tongue wouldn’t allow him to lie. 

I think you know where this is going. 

Of course, Fiona has more than one sin in her past. She pissed off Marie Laveau, then escalated the issue by cutting off the head of her lover, Bastian. 

Marie has a way to deal with this, of course. It’s something that she’s done in the past, in dark circumstances. 

When the son of a friend was lynched, Marie called the dead back to life to punish the monsters who did it. Now she’s done it again. 

And it isn’t just any dead she’s raised. No, she knows full well that Dauphine LaLaurie is living at the academy. So she’s sent her daughters to visit her.

I think we know Dauphine’s daughters aren’t going to be pleased to see their mother. 

It’s easy to watch this episode and feel a bit bad for LaLaurie unless you know the history behind her. I’ll take this moment to remind you that while most of what happens on American Horror Story is fiction, the terrors that LaLaurie inflicted are very much not. So don’t go feeling too bad.

After a long, difficult day, the witches are home. It’s Halloween night, but no one’s quite in the mood to be celebrating. None of them know that Madison’s in Spalding’s room, playing dress-up. At least, her body is.

It being a Halloween episode, it is a two-parter. And with zombies knocking on the door along with trick or treaters, I’m excited to see how part two plays out.

See you then, Killer Queens. 

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