The Royal Family returns to Attilan and comes face to face with Maximus.

Just when you think Marvel’s Inhumans can’t get any more worse, the show surprises you and does something that makes you not only scratch your head but also question why you’ve wasted the hours watching the show.

I wrote the above about the previous episode but this week’s hits new lows in not only stupid but also showing the hints of a much more intelligent show that failed to live up to its potential.

Lets talk about that potential bit….

Maximus pivots here and we learn that his coup-de-tat was all about getting a second chance a Terrigenesis. There’s not an easier way to go about this? He pivots and where the character was a populist in many ways, now he feels like a Trump stand in, only in it for self gain. If the season had played off of that from the beginning things might have improved but it’s taken seven episodes for the bad guy’s motives to actually be shown as bad. And this is his move? Take over in a risky move so he can get a do-over? The want is rather disproportionate from the action to obtain it.

Then there’s Black Bolts’ group’s response. They confront Maximus and trade the one thing he wants for the throne. They don’t stake a rightful claim, they make a deal, again treating the people as pawns as opposed to a group they actual want to lead and treat well. This is a game between two factions of elites and everyone else is a pawn in that. They accept the deal and don’t get it in writing and then lose their bargaining chip. This is the dumbest leadership I’ve ever seen and besides their “haves” attitude, this action alone should disqualify them from ruling again. They’ve shown they can’t think beyond anything other than themselves.

Then there’s Gorgon, who’s still dead. But a plan to bring him back through a second Terrigenesis? Wait. What? Why not just inject the DNA that’ll bring him back alive? How does being dead for a day now not stop this from even happening? It’s the low point in a show full of them. Everyone involved with the show should not allowed to touch others after what has been displayed here. It’s just a bad understanding of all of the source material.

When you think this show can’t get worse, it somehow manages to with plot aspects that make no sense at all and characterizations that make you dislike the characters even more.

Overall Rating: 2.0