My Review of Titans 4x02: "Mother Mayhem"

 

 

Written by Bryan Edward Hill 

Directed by Nick Copus

Dick (to little girl): "The good magic always wins."

Finishing off the double bill that HBO Max gave us to launch the fourth season, this episode definitely didn't waste any time. Either with Conner getting arrested for Lex and then him later getting exonerated for said murder too.

Conner's little downtime in a Kryptonite lit holding cell did get him into brooding mode over the way he's perceived and how much of his other father's son he really is. Of course, Conner was also determined to get the hell out of Metropolis, only for the main villain of the season to have some ideas for both Conner and the Titans.

Mother Mayhem in these two episodes so far has managed to live up to her name. She's collecting things for her cult, attacked the Titans with relative ease and even managed to give Rachel something of a white haired transformation. On top of that, she also seems to have Sebastian Sanger in her sights and set up various pieces in order to draw him to her cause.

Speaking of Sebastian, although we're still a bit off from him actually transforming into Brother Blood, the build up has been rather entertaining. We got to see him share a nice scene with his mother before her death as well as a disastrous business pitch. Sebastian might be determined to change the world but not in the way he's hoping to do.

As for the rest of the episode, we learned that Lex was a little too interested in researching Kory before his death and the latter's attempts to get answers from Nelson only resulted in the latter dying the same way as every other Lexcorp worker did. 

Then we had the strange man in the mask and his fight scenes with Rachel, whom the latter nearly killed, only for the Nightmare Man to kill himself. Now with Rachel's new look, has she lost her powers as well? Or like Kory has she gained newer ones? Either way, this supernatural theme is working for the show this season.

- Gar fell unconscious at one point in the episode while in the woods with Tim. He also talked about the sound of animals dying.

- Sebastian's pitch seemed to be a much grander and community oriented take on Tetris. I get the feeling that tech company that rejected Sebastian will be killed next.

- Dick gave his leather jacket to the young girl who lost her mother at the start of the episode.

- Chronology: From where the previous episode left off.

Mother Mayhem followed up the first episode pretty well and the title villain already feels like an improvement to Scarecrow from last season. It's early days but this season does feel more organised and hopefully it'll stay that way.

Rating: 7 out of 10