All right, I had to review this episode of Black Summer in particular after seeing all the negative reviews. After watching it, I'm not sure what everyone had a problem with. Children are not innocent. Kids are by far the cruelest, most scheming human beings in existence; perhaps most adults don't remember this from their real-life childhoods, so they can't accept it in fiction. That children are the manipulators in this episode was not only a realistic and underutilized concept, but it also reminded me fondly of the Fallout video game universe, where pockets of demented child-led cults thrived without adult supervision in an apocalyptic wasteland.
This episode had its problems: I personally would have loved to see more than a few underage casualties, and that the adult characters didn't kill their children captors irked me, particularly because this episode sees the death of more than one main character at their hands and it would have been more than justified. Spears shone as a man of reason and logic in this episode, so I look forward to seeing how he handles future hurdles (if he lives long enough to see them).
Overall, Black Summer impressed me by tackling this controversial subject; it's just a shame its characters didn't have the balls to defend themselves against so-called "innocents."
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