REVIEW: Midnight, Texas, Episode 108
Midnight, Texas continues with its season, and now gets to its final few episodes. Yesterday’s episode was the eighth and it was entitled “Last Temptation of Midnight” and with the vail being more and more fragile, both supernatural creatures and humans start to feel the effects of this.
The episode introduced a new supernatural creature: a faceless monster who can wear anyone’s face, quite literally actually. I think I don’t have to say that it was on its way to Midnight, because that crosses the line of obvious. But turns out that this monster is working for the Demon who is trying to ascend in Midnight, and so, on its way to that town in Texas, it kills multiple people and wears their faces as a disguise.
Meanwhile, Manfred continues to refuse to go back to Midnight, even after Xylda said that she told him to go there, not because he would be safe, but because it is his destiny to save it. This actually seems to make much more sense because if Midnight is a beacon for supernatural creatures, and if Hightower had powers, it was just a matter of time before he found Manfred, not to mention that he actually did. When fate calls upon you, there is no way you can run, and Manfred learned this in a very rough approach, when his RV died in the middle of nowhere.
I think the relationship between Xylda and Manfred, their bond as grandmother and grandson, was a bit ignored up until this point, but this episode gave us some flashbacks and I really loved them. And with Xylda’s departure to hopefully a better place, this was definitely the perfect episode to include these flashbacks. Unfortunately, they didn’t get to say goodbye, but like Xylda said, they already had, when she was dying.
At the same time, tensions begin to rise in Midnight. With the demon tormenting Fiji, a woman shows up at her house asking for help with her depression. It was later discovered that her dark thoughts and this woman’s actual attempt to kill herself, were all being caused by the same demon which was tormenting Fiji. The demon feeds on death, and so it is driving the weak to kill themselves. It is a shame that we didn’t get to see this sooner. Apparently the demon has been doing this for some time and the Revered even said that a few days back he had found a few dead bodies. It would have been cool to have shown these bodies in a previous episode and now we would all make the connection between that and this.
But the humans aren’t the only ones being affected. Reverend Emilio, who was a vegetarian, started eating meat, probably trying to prevent himself from easting human meat. For Lemuel, feeding on emotional energy started to not be enough and he began to get hungry for blood, making Olivia have to defend herself against him. It was really amazing that fight scene between the two. I was very impressed by how long Olivia lasted against a powerful vampire who wasn’t pulling many punches. I knew she was badass, but not that much. It was great how the conversation they had last episode popped up, making Lemuel wanting to turn Olivia, which made me realize that she would definitely be unstoppable as an immortal, since she is already such a fighter as a human. Lemuel loves her, and deep down he simply wanted to live with her forever. Is that such a bad thing? Fortunately Fiji made a potion that made people return to their own selves, but nothing was going to take back what Lemuel tried to do, so seems that Olivia broke up with him.
Getting a “ride” from the faceless beast, Manfred returns to Midnight, where the creature plans to sacrifice the bodies it gathered on the road trip in the name of the demon that is tormenting Midnight. And it was finally in this scene that we learned the demon’s name: Colconnar. But even though they stopped the creature from burning the bodies, making them sacrifices to Colconnar, the ground opened and the bodies burned anyway. Enjoying this queue, Manfred called for some spirits to help him and drag the creature back to hell, proving that he does have the power to lead an army against this demon, as the prophecy says he does.
This was definitely a great episode, and I really enjoyed that last scene I described, because it shows that Manfred might actually have the power to stop what is coming, with everyone else’s help of course. I am giving this episode an 8.5/10.
The good news is that we won’t have to wait another week for a new episode, because “Riders on the Storm”, the ninth episode, will air tonight, so don’t miss my review tomorrow.