Miracles, episode 5: The Bone Scatterer
Jun. 22nd, 2023 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annavereFinally an ensemble episode. It gave me a stronger sense for how these three work as a group and how they relate to one another in their downtime. I do start to wonder how they're paying rent out of all this.
More adorableness as Paul points out they have no credentials for what they do. And Evvy's cop background comes out to finesse the local sheriff expertly (finally she feels like an integral part of this team!). Not to mention she's the one who collects most of the practical information and does the logical thing by visiting the coroner's office and picking his pocket. She pieces together the private life of Travis without even having to talk to him, presumably because her background has exposed her to the patterns of domestic abuse. I like Evvy.
That leaves Alva to research the mystical side of the case and handle any language barriers they might encounter, while Paul handles the emotional connection to the victim/perpetrator, and thus they have all their bases covered. They're a good team.
I was genuinely surprised when they completely failed at the typical hero scenario of saving the evil sheriff from getting patricided. Not that I was sad about his fate, good lord.
Between the show's general themes, the way Paul connects to various troubled minors and the way ghosts operate in this universe, occasionally becoming corporeal and exacting vengeance, I'm filing this away on my growing list of 'American Gothic crossovers no one except me wants.'
I can't blame the show for taking longer to get going than it turned out to actually have, because a lot of my favorite shows have super uneven first seasons. I am enjoying this for what it is, but I'm a little disappointed that Miracles promised a very specific subgenre of religious horror in its first episode, and the writing team has since then utterly shied from that premise and delivered monsters of the week instead.
This feels like a very slight post, so I may start banding up multiple episodes and hope for either the myth arc or a strong character arc to surface among the remaining eight.
More adorableness as Paul points out they have no credentials for what they do. And Evvy's cop background comes out to finesse the local sheriff expertly (finally she feels like an integral part of this team!). Not to mention she's the one who collects most of the practical information and does the logical thing by visiting the coroner's office and picking his pocket. She pieces together the private life of Travis without even having to talk to him, presumably because her background has exposed her to the patterns of domestic abuse. I like Evvy.
That leaves Alva to research the mystical side of the case and handle any language barriers they might encounter, while Paul handles the emotional connection to the victim/perpetrator, and thus they have all their bases covered. They're a good team.
I was genuinely surprised when they completely failed at the typical hero scenario of saving the evil sheriff from getting patricided. Not that I was sad about his fate, good lord.
Between the show's general themes, the way Paul connects to various troubled minors and the way ghosts operate in this universe, occasionally becoming corporeal and exacting vengeance, I'm filing this away on my growing list of 'American Gothic crossovers no one except me wants.'
I can't blame the show for taking longer to get going than it turned out to actually have, because a lot of my favorite shows have super uneven first seasons. I am enjoying this for what it is, but I'm a little disappointed that Miracles promised a very specific subgenre of religious horror in its first episode, and the writing team has since then utterly shied from that premise and delivered monsters of the week instead.
This feels like a very slight post, so I may start banding up multiple episodes and hope for either the myth arc or a strong character arc to surface among the remaining eight.
