Unlike Eleven’s Upside Down world in Stranger Things, this sensory depravation chamber takes us deep into the twisted horror show that is Misty’s twisted mind. In the present timeline, Misty’s big scene comes in the form of a sensory depravation chamber.
“I can’t have another death on my hands,” she sobs, and Ben-realizing, perhaps, how awful it would be to kill himself in front of a young, messed up girl-steps back from the ledge. She tried so hard but couldn’t save the baby. He asks if she could push him, which is a pretty horrible thing to ask someone, especially a teenage girl.Īnd finally Misty gets real. “Do it,” he tells her, even more at peace with his plan. She threatens him, threatens to tell the world he’s gay. Ben cleans up and walks to the cliff, ready to hurl himself from the edge when Misty arrives and begs him to stop. Ben’s latest vision/flashback ended with Paul leaving, telling him he’s not going to be able to return. The next scene, after Misty climbs back up from where Crystal’s body used to be-having mysteriously vanished!-she finds Coach Ben by the cliffside. It’s not easy, as an actor, to make your acting look convincingly fake! She’s clearly faking and at least Mari can tell. In the first, she fake cries to the girls she’s searching for Crystal with, telling them it’s just too much, she can’t bear it.
In the past timeline, Samantha Hanratty does such an extraordinary job in two back-to-back scenes. I have to give both actresses who play her a kudos at this point.
Misty has all the best scenes this episode. Misty is determined to find the body before anyone else because she doesn’t want them to eat her, which seems a little selfish given the nature of her death. But hopefully she’s fine! they both agree, smacking their lips.Ĭrystal is not fine, of course, but she’s also not where Misty left her. Curiouser and curiouser, especially with the lingering cannibalism-something now openly discussed between two of the “new” girls when they note that one silver lining of Crystal dying is, well, lunch. “What the f*#$?” Nat blurts out, because it’s Nat and we love her. It’s almost like a dream, when Shauna stops and Lottie finally takes a breath and we know she’s still alive (though, yeah, we knew she would be). Why did nobody intervene sooner? Shock? The power of Lottie’s will holding them back? Sitting astride her, hitting her again and again and again, until Lottie’s face is purple and red with bruises, until she’s very nearly dead. Shauna, hitting Lottie in the face, knocking her to the ground. In the past, a scene of raw violence and fury.
The women dancing by the fire at Lottie’s strange healing center in the forest, under antler chandeliers. Lightning Crashes plays over both scenes. “I know there’s a lot of pain right now, but let it out.” Lottie tells Travis to take Javi into the other room. When Lottie confronts her, Shauna punches her in the face. Shauna doesn’t react well to Misty’s humming and starts breaking down, accusing her friends of eating her baby. The Wilderness, she argues, gives them what they need. There’s even this discussion between Lottie and the others. I think this is important both because Shauna is clearly one of the many people who think of miscarriage when they hear this song, which explains her reaction to Misty, but also because if you take the song’s actual meaning at face value-birth, rebirth, death, transference of life, how these are all happening simultaneously-you get a bit deeper into the meaning of the episode.
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