This episode was a particularly nasty and startling. You get to see a young girl cut out another woman's tongue and eat it. This episode was titled Face Time and boy does the end of this give a gory meaning to the title when another woman gets her face slowly eaten away at it by another person. Also Grace discovers her dead husband's body is missing. So I'm wondering if he is going to be alive and turn out to be the killer. At the end of this episode you see that the killer has gained a new partner. So far this new season has been completely crazy and exciting, with this crazy and dysfunctional family and a masked killer on the loose.
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Possibly the best episode of the season
chocolate-lover3339 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
So far this season has proved it's one of the better ones - to me it's up there with season 2. This episode however was absolutely brilliant, from the twists - to the gore - to the snappy blackly comedic dialogue. Some episodes have weak dialogue (the series as a whole is great, just some scenes falter due to this), however this episode has some of the wittiest one liners. I will say I did call the twist during the first couple of episodes but if you've seen orphan you'll know!
Christy and Aphra share a very intimate moment as secrets spill
A_Llama_Drama13 September 2021
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Well, the cat is out of the bag, and the resident cat is impaled on their art. Face Time opens directly where we left off, with Aphra torturing Florence who has been left out in the cold by her children. Aphra, the darling nutjob, wants revenge on Florence for murdering her dad (or so she thinks). After some tongue removal and back stabbing, Christy arrives and tries to break her sister-in-law out of the shackles. But the Gentleman is closing in and we have a new victim. For the remainder of the episode, we get little drips of the crazy found in Aphra, culminating in a reveal referencing one of the 00s best horrors. Seeing Aphra's collection of selfies and face-time videos to an unknown lover while she raps and smokes was probably the first time I've laughed this whole season. Goofy, bizarre, cringe and just twisted. The other four back at the house do nothing more than sit and muse on what it all means that Christy and Aphra have disappeared.
This episode delivers one of the most twisted deaths the show has done. As one character's sanity snaps, well, PICA is gonna seem to eating disorders what Jaws is to the sea.
The flashbacks, filling in Christy's conflict of wanting to lover her adopted daughter, and noticing she's not quite right, bring more depth to her marriage to spineless Seamus. His resolution that the adoption is not dissolvable (but the marriage could be) is a bitter pill for Christy to take. Paula Brancati sells every moment as the doomed heroine. Unlike Dawn or Violet (her characters from previous seasons), Christy is a very compassionate and kind person, and the only sane person left on the island.
A lot of the theories I had read online before this episode dropped involved Christy being either a killer, or the last survivor again, so it was shocking that her adoptive daughter succeeded in eating her face off (and not just because she walked back into the main house begging to be killed).
There were some odd narrative choices here. Tortured son, Theo, tied Florence up to be killed (or demonstrate she was the killer), so his reaction upon finding her dead made little to know sense. It wasn't a cry of relief that the monster had finally croaked, or a cry of anguish that there was still a killer around, but one of sadness. I get we have layers, but Florence had shown herself to be utterly reprehensible, not just in the present but throughout her flashbacks.
Liv continues to be a dull character (so dull I keep thinking her name is Ivy), even her wardrobe is basic AF. Her role seems to be "perfectly adept at surviving," and her relationship with Theo has all the chemistry of a wet fart. Vincent and Grace are proving to be far more bankable heroes. Which probably means they'll be dead soon. Shame! Someone not likely surviving is little Aphra, who wanders out into the forest, completely disassociating from reality as she ends the episode, bumping into the Gentleman and taking his hand. Good riddance, I say!
This episode delivers one of the most twisted deaths the show has done. As one character's sanity snaps, well, PICA is gonna seem to eating disorders what Jaws is to the sea.
The flashbacks, filling in Christy's conflict of wanting to lover her adopted daughter, and noticing she's not quite right, bring more depth to her marriage to spineless Seamus. His resolution that the adoption is not dissolvable (but the marriage could be) is a bitter pill for Christy to take. Paula Brancati sells every moment as the doomed heroine. Unlike Dawn or Violet (her characters from previous seasons), Christy is a very compassionate and kind person, and the only sane person left on the island.
A lot of the theories I had read online before this episode dropped involved Christy being either a killer, or the last survivor again, so it was shocking that her adoptive daughter succeeded in eating her face off (and not just because she walked back into the main house begging to be killed).
There were some odd narrative choices here. Tortured son, Theo, tied Florence up to be killed (or demonstrate she was the killer), so his reaction upon finding her dead made little to know sense. It wasn't a cry of relief that the monster had finally croaked, or a cry of anguish that there was still a killer around, but one of sadness. I get we have layers, but Florence had shown herself to be utterly reprehensible, not just in the present but throughout her flashbacks.
Liv continues to be a dull character (so dull I keep thinking her name is Ivy), even her wardrobe is basic AF. Her role seems to be "perfectly adept at surviving," and her relationship with Theo has all the chemistry of a wet fart. Vincent and Grace are proving to be far more bankable heroes. Which probably means they'll be dead soon. Shame! Someone not likely surviving is little Aphra, who wanders out into the forest, completely disassociating from reality as she ends the episode, bumping into the Gentleman and taking his hand. Good riddance, I say!
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