When fans of a show following its main run discuss it, the conversation always turn to the same topic. “Did you like the ending?” we’ll ask each other about 12 Monkeys. My answer is: Yes. I liked it. The episode, The Beginning, felt like a love letter from the writers to the show itself. Everything […]
Anyone else want to watch some Game of Thrones with me, to cheer up a little? This episode. You guys. Really. Game-changing, series-altering, emo-inducing TV. In a season dedicated to circle and loops, this episode gave us a ton of callbacks to prior episodes to go watch again. Heck, even the Twelve Monkeys movie seems […]
Remember all the way back to the first episode of the season? It was a whole two weeks ago, after all. Anyway, in that opening scene, we saw seers put to death by a crazed guy with the Witness, uh, witnessing the whole thing. Then we saw a frantic older man hand the ouroboros puzzle […]
Emma vs Hannah The complicated minefield of mother and daughter relationships shapes this episode’s narrative. The opening question-and-answer style back-and-forth of both Hannah and Emma’s backgrounds tells us a lot. People other than their mothers raised both characters. Although all the intervening stuff that happens to them is very different, at their core, they share […]
Showrunner Terry Matalas and crew like to mix in some whimsy with the deadly serious 12 Monkeys premise. Last season, we got an episode that strongly resembled Ocean’s 11, and featured Alisen Down‘s version of Jennifer Goines. This season, we get Die Glocke. Still deadly serious. Adding Nazis will do that. Add in Jennifer’s concert, […]
Opening: Let’s welcome Christopher Lloyd back to the house monkeys built! He returns as The Missionary, the man who would travel with young Athan and spread the monkey word across the land, tent-revival style. Never mind that they killed most who attended. Here, he’s wallowing in the depths of happy and painful memories. We get […]
With this episode, “Legacy”, we got the American Old West setting featured in many of the trailers shown prior to the season. We also learned a couple important details that have been teased in the first episodes this season. Let’s hit a thorough recap and review those important points along the way. Opening Flashback First, […]
Sarah Conner? Cassie (Amanda Schull) goes straight-up T-800 this episode in which she decides to hunt down young Olivia. Unlike The Terminator, which also involved an unborn child and time travel, once she learns of the pending birth, her plan goes haywire. I loved the opening. The whole cutting between Olivia getting processed at the […]
Seeing is Believing Where the first episode back relentlessly fed us plot point after plot point, the second gives us a moment to catch our breath. Recalling the pilot episode, this episode fills in some of the behind-the-scenes stuff happening around our heroes’ younger selves. We get to see a longer version of Ramse and […]
Unlike last year’s binge experience, I split this season’s reviews into individual episodes. Makes for more clicking, but shorter reads. Let’s quit wasting time and get on with 12 Monkeys episode 401: The End! The Final Splinter Sequence Remember how last season ended? Yeah lots of action, but there was one stand-alone scene at the very […]
