This is your only warning. For all
those that have yet to watch Friday night’s episode of Haven, entitled ‘Countdown’, I suggest you go and do so
immediately, or vacate the premises. As always, this is not a spoiler free
blog. THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS! You’ve
been warned.
Well, this week’s episode marked
the halfway point for the season, kind of, only seven episodes left to go.
Definitely a better episode than last week, possibly better than all of the
episodes of the season so far. There were a lot of little threads brought in
concerning past seasons that made me quite happy.
Finally, the subject of Duke
loving Audrey was raised in this episode. Audrey is back, seemingly in the form
of Lexie, and so Nathan plans on making her fall in love with him so that she
can kill him and end the Troubles for good. Thus, this week Nathan brings up
the little tidbit of information Duke shared with him before Nathan shot Agent
Howard, and feels like he’s the right person to take care of Audrey when
Nathan’s gone. It was good to see the bits and pieces of Duke’s feelings
towards Audrey, whom he knows is in fact Audrey, including the subject of
Colorado from last season. Still, I don’t think it was quite as strong as past
seasons, though I do think it helped that Jennifer wasn’t in this episode to
distract from that subject. Even though Duke did appear a little too nonchalant
about her packing up her stuff.
A large part of this episode
consisted of the subject of being, and creating, a monster. In the end, Jordan
decided she no longer wanted to be one, but it was too late for she had already
pointed Wade onto the path of becoming one. I still really can’t stand his
character, despite understanding the reason he was added to the series. While
he plays villain much better than scorned brother, I don’t feel like the switch
was completely natural. This week his acting seemed more natural, but not the
character. I completely saw that point where he went in to stab the Troubled
man Paul to activate his family’s curse, but whereas Duke sees it for the curse
it is, Wade views it as more of a gift. Power does corrupt absolutely when that
is what a person craves. Still, I can’t stand the character.
Part of the reason why I think
this week’s episode worked much better is because of the fact Bigfoot didn’t
appear in it (yes, I mean Dwight), and the fact Jordan was cracking and finally
decided it was time to move on, although she really didn’t end up moving on –
on to the afterlife. Also, the fact that the love triangle wasn’t corrupted by
the Jennifer character this week, and that we knew Lexie was still Audrey. And
how Nathan eventually figured out who Audrey really was. Some nice, simple
things that really boosted the episode’s appeal.
While I know this show can’t be
like this every week, with big reveals popping up throughout an episode, I am
happy to have been able to watch a much better chapter to the story of Haven. If the writing starts to shape up
a little more, and add in the repercussions of opening the door, this series
will begin to work it’s way back to the greatness it had in the beginning.
My rating: 7.5 out of 10.
Best Lines:
“I’ll say things like 10-4 and copy that, and like eat
donuts and stuff.” – Audrey says to Nathan, trying to convince him that she is
Lexie.
“Don’t touch him.” – Nathan says. “I wasn’t planning on it.”
– Duke retorts, after a body gets rigor mortis before death.
Sorry for not posting this last night, but I did watch, I
just got too tired to write the review. I’m off to watch Once Upon A Time now, then Revenge.
Stick around for those reviews.
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