Deloris gets saved from Alice by a rogue group of Camo’d up, armed to the teeth, mixed species monsters and warns Fred while she tries to keep Sheriff Gina alive. Viv is keeping her maybe monster/ cyborg protector “safe” by hiding him in her closet while Phillip and Geoff get closer.

WHAT WORKED: The story as a whole. The writing is still solid and now they’ve done away with the useless side stories and are focusing on the meat of the main characters, it’s easy to fall all in. The framing, the color palette, the direction, and the acting are all pretty good and in this episode, the show has really hit its stride.

WHAT WAS OFF: It didn’t detract from the story, it wasn’t even that it was inconceivable or wrong but, it kind of threw me off that with all of the emotional maturity that Geoff showed with Phillip, that he got upset that his newly out boyfriend wanted to wait two weeks until after his dad’s election was over.  It was kind of disconcerting to see him return back to his old spoiled , aloof ways.

BEST LINE(s): 

When Viv is trying to hide her new “friend” from her grandma and thinks she’s going to get caught –

“Are you hiding a boy in your closet” – Grandma

“No, that’s more Geoff’s style.” – Viv

Not only was this cool because she really was hiding a maybe boy in her closet but, by saying it’s more “Geoff’s style” shows how accepted he is and I love families that love and accept their kids as they are.

BEST MOMENT: When Viv follows the mystery may be a monster, definitely cyborg, to Seth’s room and he lets her know through his LED eye that there are some weird cult drawings under the rug and that this is where he came from. Her shift in thinking about her parents and grandparents gives her a bit of an aha moment and, she seems to start to grow.

EPISODE’S MVP: Deloris. I’ve always been a fan of Tamara Taylor but, in Open Your Eyes she showed everyone else why they should be. Deloris really went through it in this episode, from having to save her friends life, in a way that was sort of similar to the way her dad died (down to the uniform), to having to steal evidence from her dying friends locked office, to her coming home to find her mother -in- law dying on the floor of her home, a swat team with their throats slit and her kids missing it was too much. So, when she lets out that broken scream as the scream faded to black and the credits rolled, my heart went with her. The sheer emotion and realistic nature of her performance and the writing and direction of it all made Deloris, no contest, the MVP

Overall: 9