Review: October Faction “Nadir” S1E7

October Faction

We finally find out what happened to Seth, Fred’s brother, and he comes face to face with the man who killed him, a “monster” named Moshe who teams up with him and Deloris to find the kids and kill the warlock. Margaret is “rescued” by a Presidio strike team led by Fred’s mistress and the twins find themselves being treated way too kindly by the warlock Alice who is trying to turn them on their parents and explain to them who & what they really are.

WHAT WORKED: For a show set in the supernatural most of the interactions seem realistic and genuine. Each character has a motive and a mission statement that runs in line with who they are and in this episode the storylines and teams are pretty much laid out and make sense. The parents seem to be switching sides after coming to the realization of what Presidio really is, plus meeting Moshe made it so they are seeing that maybe the “monsters” aren’t the only monsters in this situation. I like that this revelation didn’t come without resistance nor was it covered in cliches, it wasn’t an I was racist until I met… moment but, more of a let’s work together for a mutual good and we can sort it out later and then they learn to trust each other along the way.

WTF: Presidio has been running a monster Auschwitz in Ithaca and Seth was a whole serial killer who had it coming!

BEST LINE(s): 

When Fred comes face to safe with the “monster” who killed his brother in that bathroom in New York, in the woods after both of their teams were destroyed by Alice, and Moshe explains his side of the story:

“Why didn’t you kill me?” – Fred

“I’m not a monster” – Moshe

“Neither am I!” – Fred

BEST MOMENT: Wonder Twins said WHAT! In the woods, while Viv and Geoff try and make sense of all of the things that Alice told them before she let them go, they get ambushed by a team of Presidio agents who attempt to detain them. At first, they stay calm and try to reason with their wood be captors but, when it becomes obvious that they aren’t listening to these minority kids in the woods and are going to use force and take them in and not home, they lock eyes and send out an electric wave that disables the men and it is awesome!

EPISODE’S MVP: Alice. Hear me out, yes I know she’s full-on evil and she sets her phasers to kill when she could just set them to stun but, since Presidio is all about indiscriminate monster murder, experimentation and holding them captive can you blame her? She’s kind of the “monster” Magneto to Moshe’s Professor X. So, yeah she likes to get a little dirty with her handiwork but, she’s tired of running and hiding and being mistreated and she’s fighting back. Can you blame her?

Overall: 8.2 


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