Monster Problem
Dion is at school today, and she’s distracted by Brayden. He’s been telling her about his powers and how he uses them to help people, but Dion is not sure if she should be listening. She’s worried about what Brayden might do to her if she does not listen, so she decides to skip class.
Brayden’s classmates were discussing his recent outburst in class when he suddenly became very quiet. They noticed that he was looking off into space and then they saw a vision of his childhood. In the vision, he was sitting on the porch with his parents and they were talking about his powers. His father could control plants and Brayden could see their roots growing through the floorboards. ..
Brayden’s dreams of his mother always end with a nightmarish vision in which she tells him he is an evil child. As Brayden screams, the dream ends and he wakes up from the nightmare. ..
Gary stumblend over to the sinkhole and seems to transform into something far more sinister.
Nicole and Tevin continue to grow closer together. The pair hang out together, with Kat playing cheerleader for the pair. There’s also word on Pat too, with all the tests coming back negative – he definitely doesn’t have his powers. However, there is a new development that could potentially change everything.
David visits Pat in confidence with a soil sample from the sinkhole. It appears it’s still charged with fragments of Pat’s DNA. He wants Pat’s help with his research, and part of that comes from keeping up the lie and making sure Suzanne is none the wiser.
David takes him to the sinkhole next, where Pat gets a feel for what’s happening. The Crooked Man is angry and very clearly not hiding anymore. The Crooked Energy realizes Pat is nearby and encourages Brayden to disrupt everything. Specifically, he tells Dion about Pat.
A standoff ensues right by the sinkhole, with Nicole showing up and managing to stop Dion from blasting Pat with his powers. When he finds out about Nicole lying, he’s not happy and begins crying. Dion soon comes around, revealing what he saw earlier with the flowers and the strange occurrences deep in the sinkhole. ..
Esperanza gets over her initial nerves and sings for the school audition. She nails it too, the second time around anyway.
Nicole rings Suzanne and encourages her to show up that night. “I’m not afraid of monsters!” She declares proudly… just before she falls in the sinkhole. Just like Gary before her, the flowers sprout and with it, the strange luminous glow we saw before.
Nicole narrowly escapes becoming the next victim of the swamp thing when she is attacked by the infected security guard. The creature, a monstrous plant-like creature, also emerges and runs away. ..
The Episode Review
The show’s characters are often frustrating and dumb, and the contrived way Nicole gets way too close to the sinkhole and falls in, along with the flip-flopping emotions between Dion and his mum during the Pat reveal are pretty disappointing.
The show has been dragging its heels with the Brayden situation. Dion should be prone to manipulation by now, given that he was encouraged to turn toward the dark side last season and the reveal with Pat last season showed that he is bad news. ..
The other problem with this romance is that it’s given too much screen time and it becomes a romcom. Hopefully, this starts to die down towards the end of the series.
