Has Any Show Done What Wayward Pines Just Did?
Wayward Pines' "City Upon a Hill" was one of the squishiest, juiciest, downright goriest medical dramas I've seen, as well as a total reframing of the series big bad: the monsters at the gate, the wolves at the door, the merciless sub-human abbies... used to be pretty chill?
Before the humans hatched out of the bunkers, apparently abbies lived in a veritable Eden, cuddling rabbits and admiring each other's muscle definition.
Back to current events: hot dictator Jason Higgins and wife Kerry lit 16 giant pillar candles and debated whether or not to have a baby.
Poor Theo, who was still reeling from finding out his wife Rebecca had another husband, was pulled out of his cozy drinking session to turn a bunch of candy stripers into battlefield surgeons and tend to the gaping abbie wounds as the Wayward Pines army went out to defend the town's only food source.
Jason Patric gave me feelings with that whole speech about staying calm and getting through the night, and Shannyn Sossamon coming in with a collapsed lung and reacting to treatment was really transcendent.
Yes that's right, after burying half theWayward Pines army (which was only ever 40 people, LOL) we learned the crops had been destroyed and unless there was some dramatic solutions everyone in town would starve in four episodes.
What was left of the army came by to pick up the weapon Xander had commandeered and when he hung a lantern on the fact they all wear brownshirts like the Nazis (get it? did you get in the first scene of the premiere? yeah me too) the sergeant snapped back with some facts about Xander: he's a former drug dealer and ne'er-do-well who was given a second chance at the future because of his "resourcefulness" but so far he's only used that resourcefulness to benefit himself.
Shannyn Sossamon is a national treasure and she will be missed from the series, but WOW, when have you ever seen a show so audacious that it kills off its WHOLE MAIN