“Weird vibes
out here…”
Well,
surprise surprise: we get an episode
based on Rapunzel. A feral little
girl has been living, high above the ground, in that thick Oregon forest , with
its tall, thin trees, that so strongly evokes the mythical forests of the
Germany from which so many fairy tales originate, along with so much German
folklore and legend- Arminius, the legions and all that. The cinematography (if
a non-movie can be described with such a term) presents this primordial, huge
forest in bright, fairytale colours. The forest is very much a major character
on this show.
This week is
also an example of a perennial complains of my girlfriends: credits keep appearing
at the bottom of the screen when we’re ages into the bloody episode. It’s most
distracting.
It’s an
interesting Monroe episode, though. We see what an old fashioned chap he is; he
REALLY does Christmas. That, I suppose, is also very German. He’s given an interesting
stake in the goings-on here: Holly, this week’s human McGuffin, is a wild
Blutbad who does things with her hair, and he gets a nice moral dilemma,
drawing him more into the responsibilities he once withdrew from in his
thickening friendship with Nick.
A gripe,
though. Hank is a good detective. Shouldn’t he have noticed the supernatural
goings-on by now, and that his good cop buddy has been acting oddly?
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