Spoilers

The Boroughs

“Forbidden Fruit”

I love this show. It has everything you could want out of a show like this: humor, drama, suspense, wonderful characters and a mystery that is truly compelling.

I am sad that Netflix decided that this was the only season this show was going to get, but it makes me happy that it exists at all.

This week we get all kinds of progress, including Sam, Judy and Wally setting a trap for the monster (which actually worked!), an investigation by Renee into the background of Hank (who seems to be a man named Milton Hauser, who died in a car wreck in the 1970s), and Art’s transformation after eating a magic peach.

Not that everything went great. The trap for the monster may have worked, but it was able to get away. Judy winged it with a gun and it seemed to bleed blue blood. Sam ran into his daughter and there was a tense discussion. Then, Paz, who was curious about a meeting between Hank and Boroughs CEO Blaine Shaw, followed Hank into the basement and saw something in a room before he was shocked into unconsciousness by Hank.

Ed, who tried to help Sam, died in the episode off screen and Sam suspected that Blaine had the man killed because he tried to help him.

There is definitely something sinister going down at the Boroughs and the show has a pace that does not mess around. It provided a bunch of great scenes while furthering the mysteries. The LOST-style shot at the end of the episode with Sam, Wally and Judy peering down a shaft that had allowed the creature access to Sam’s house was a great cliffhanger.