One thing I noticed was that the mirror Ben broke was whole when he put it on the truck, so was his vision only a vision, and he saw a broken mirror where there was none - or did he restore the mirror?
Remineded me of the weird and creepy old man/halfwit scene where (apparently) he induced the guy to never do that again.
If Iris goes to jail, will that have the effect of increasing Justin's flock, drawn to the martyr whose sister betrayed him? There's a new housekeeper, it appears, in the home, so is the second maid gone like the first? Will Justin continue that trend, or turn to other sources for release? Will he become even more tightly self-contained without his sister's unwavering support, or begin to embroil Tommy Dolan further?
The Klan bit bothered me.
It's never occurred to me that Scudder is the Tattooed Man, since he is still alive somewhere, and I have the image of the tattooed man as a dark-haired, wild figure. If it's a generational thing, Justin is much older than Ben, either of the previous generation or in between.
The dream of WWI, Russian soldier, Scudder, bear - and Management is meant to be the Russian soldier? Management sounds female or ambiguous to me, so I'm not sure I understand that. Was the bear the Tattooed Man?
The final scene with Sofie seeing her mother just scared the heck out of me. I am not fond of dead people visiting the living - read The Monkey's Paw too early in my formative years. However, the revelation that she's been reading the cards all along wasn't that much of a surprise, since her mother kept pushing at her in Season One to do so. I wonder if Apollonia had minor powers before she was raped, and if Sofie's presence strengthened them like a battery charger? As Sofie grew, refusing to accept that she herself had power, might she have pushed her abilities into her mother as you say, and now they are returning to her?
The Ben/Sofie kiss is the first time, I think, that the boy has been clean. I can go with them as siblings or not. Scudder seems to have left a trail of bodies and pain behind him, but at the same time, we keep seeing his old buddies, cohorts, acquaintances who recall good, or at least, not bad memories.
Ruthie and the carnies were comrades of Scudder, Ruthie his old lover, so how many faces did he have, how many phases of his life? If he's the soldier in WW1, and in the carnival after that, why did he leave? Where is he? What is the purpose of finding him? To confront Justin? To take an inheritance of some sort?
Rita Sue, Libby and Stumpy continue to interest me, with the Jonesy factor and the gambling and the angry Burly. This is probably a good reason not to roll with trade, as Stumpy put it. Rita Sue's admonition to her daughter is somewhat ironic, given her and Jonesy's encounters. She knows whereof she speaks, yet there's a sense of jealousy there, too. Libby is what Rita was, her replacement. She loves her daughter fiercely, but the resentment is strong, too.
What is the cost of Justin's power? Ben's demonstrate a cost ratio, act to consequences, but I've not seen that for Justin.
Why does Ruthie see dead people, and how will that impact events? Now that Sofie can see her mother, will she also see Lodz? It appeared that both Apollonia and Lodz appeared to Ruthie, not simply going about their business as the others she claims.
It's all quite confusing, and mostly I sit back and enjoy the creepiness factor.
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Remineded me of the weird and creepy old man/halfwit scene where (apparently) he induced the guy to never do that again.
If Iris goes to jail, will that have the effect of increasing Justin's flock, drawn to the martyr whose sister betrayed him? There's a new housekeeper, it appears, in the home, so is the second maid gone like the first? Will Justin continue that trend, or turn to other sources for release? Will he become even more tightly self-contained without his sister's unwavering support, or begin to embroil Tommy Dolan further?
The Klan bit bothered me.
It's never occurred to me that Scudder is the Tattooed Man, since he is still alive somewhere, and I have the image of the tattooed man as a dark-haired, wild figure. If it's a generational thing, Justin is much older than Ben, either of the previous generation or in between.
The dream of WWI, Russian soldier, Scudder, bear - and Management is meant to be the Russian soldier? Management sounds female or ambiguous to me, so I'm not sure I understand that. Was the bear the Tattooed Man?
The final scene with Sofie seeing her mother just scared the heck out of me. I am not fond of dead people visiting the living - read The Monkey's Paw too early in my formative years. However, the revelation that she's been reading the cards all along wasn't that much of a surprise, since her mother kept pushing at her in Season One to do so. I wonder if Apollonia had minor powers before she was raped, and if Sofie's presence strengthened them like a battery charger? As Sofie grew, refusing to accept that she herself had power, might she have pushed her abilities into her mother as you say, and now they are returning to her?
The Ben/Sofie kiss is the first time, I think, that the boy has been clean. I can go with them as siblings or not. Scudder seems to have left a trail of bodies and pain behind him, but at the same time, we keep seeing his old buddies, cohorts, acquaintances who recall good, or at least, not bad memories.
Ruthie and the carnies were comrades of Scudder, Ruthie his old lover, so how many faces did he have, how many phases of his life? If he's the soldier in WW1, and in the carnival after that, why did he leave? Where is he? What is the purpose of finding him? To confront Justin? To take an inheritance of some sort?
Rita Sue, Libby and Stumpy continue to interest me, with the Jonesy factor and the gambling and the angry Burly. This is probably a good reason not to roll with trade, as Stumpy put it. Rita Sue's admonition to her daughter is somewhat ironic, given her and Jonesy's encounters. She knows whereof she speaks, yet there's a sense of jealousy there, too. Libby is what Rita was, her replacement. She loves her daughter fiercely, but the resentment is strong, too.
What is the cost of Justin's power? Ben's demonstrate a cost ratio, act to consequences, but I've not seen that for Justin.
Why does Ruthie see dead people, and how will that impact events? Now that Sofie can see her mother, will she also see Lodz? It appeared that both Apollonia and Lodz appeared to Ruthie, not simply going about their business as the others she claims.
It's all quite confusing, and mostly I sit back and enjoy the creepiness factor.