“Adalind,
I think it's time to settle our differences, violently”.
This one is
based on a story called Donkey Cabbages.
I kid you not. There is nary a donkey or a cabbage to be seen, just Hank being
bewitched by Adalind, who finally comes in to her own. This is the first time
we’ve had a story develop over a number of episodes and reach a conclusion- a
sort of mini-arc. I like this sort of thing.
It’s also
nice to see Hank get something to do other than crack jokes. There’s a problem with
the character. He’s consistently shown to be a competent and intelligent
detective, but he never notices the
blatantly supernatural goings on, and this makes him look stupid. This episode
strongly hints that the writers recognise that this has to change soon. At
last, Hank is the focus of a supernatural threat, even if he ends the episode
none the wiser. Russell Hornsby is
brilliant, as ever, but it’s great to see him getting a greater variety of material
to work with.
We get
more comedy fun with Wu in an otherwise serious episode, but this is also a
chance for Rosalie, still a relatively new character, to further endear herself
to the viewers by brewing up an antidote pretty damn quickly to treat Wu’s bizarre
symptoms from his greedy cookie stealing! Moral much?
I’m
impressed by the use of prosthetics rather than CGI in some of the scenes with
Adalind’s full-on Hexenbiest form as
she fights Nick in the woods, cliché. It’s a shame, though, that one of the
body doubles is rather obvious. The ending is crushing for Adalind. She loses
her powers and is instantly and cruelly rejected by the Captain and her mother.
Yet again
we’re getting loads of arcyness! I like it.
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