Written by Halley Feiffer
Directed by Jennifer Lynch
Ivy (to Adeline): "Motherhood is always a blessing."
Why is that the one episode that doesn't feature Anna Victoria Alcott turned out to be the best episode of the season? I'm not kidding. Not only was this episode much needed but it made wonder what this season might have been had we had a different protagonist all along.
The episode opened up a very long time ago with Ivy giving birth in an abandoned shed. Well, technically she had to cut her own stomach open in order to give birth to two very familiar characters. The connection these characters have won't shock but it does work beautifully here.
The connection being that Sonia Shawcross and Adeline Harding are actually sisters and Ivy was revealed to be their mother. Adeline being the odd one out as she tired of giving birth to demon babies and defected for a normal life. That meant being married to Dex and running a feminist vegan restaurant named Ave Hestia.
Even these bouts of normalcy didn't stop doing some after hours magic and it certainly explained her reluctance to have children with Dex. Unfortunately, abandoning her coven came with consequences as not only did both Sonia and Ivy come for her, but so did Nicolette and Talia. Needless to say, things didn't end well for Adeline this episode.
As a protagonist, I found Adeline far more interesting in this one episode than Anna has been in the previous six. This brand of magic does seem more in line with Satanism and while Dex might be an innocent in this, his father certainly wasn't.
Virginia was right all along when she said that Dex Sr was in league with Satanism. I mean, we watched him knock out his own wife while witches drained her blood and he fucked one of them. Even Dex Jr got his memories wiped when he walked in on the ritual. Why did it take so freaking long for the show to get to the more exciting stuff?
- Adeline was able to perfect an American accent, something which both Ivy and Sonia couldn't do. Cara Delevingne's Irish accent was surprisingly decent for the most part.
- Talia sold her soul to join the witches and birthed multiple kids during her business trips.
- I had to laugh at Dex admitting he was a rubbish painter. I'm assuming his parents knew about Adeline than Dex himself did.
- Anna's Super Fan (does that character even have a name?) appeared at the drug store where Adeline bought a pregnancy test.
- Anna, Siobhan, Dr Hill, Ms Preacher and Kamal were all absent from this episode.
- Chronology: 42 AD Western Europe, 1243 Galway, Ireland and 2013 Brooklyn, New York.
Ave Hestia finally gave this season a much needed shot in the arm. Nothing against Emma Roberts but Annabelle Dexter-Jones did an absolutely fantastic job here as Adeline and Sonia and this story finally got interesting to watch. It shouldn't have taken this long but I'm glad this episode delivered big time.
Rating: 9 out of 10
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