Into The Badlands Recap: Enter the Phoenix

Season: 3 / Episode: 1 / AMC ***spoilers lurk in the forest below*** Super Soft Sunny Season 3 starts exactly like Season 2 ended, the Widow is plotting against the only other living Baron, Mistress Chau, while the Civil War is taking place in the Badlands. We immediately get a pretty gruesome fight scene, which is honestly one of the top three reasons why this show is amazing. Who doesn’t like excessive blood squirting everywhere? The badass Clippers in blue open things up with a fearsome slaughter of the Clippers in white, only to be cut down by arrows from above in a most un-honorable fashion. In the meantime, we come to what looks like the same tower Bajie sent out his tech-savvy message to Azra. The Widow rides up on a dark horse wearing a hoodie and finds Nathaniel, the brother who got his hand chopped off by Sunny last season when all he wanted was his 1000th kill. The Widow wants Nathaniel to join her crew, but he’s not about that life anymore. He only wants the dude who chopped off his hand AKA Sunny. We already know that is never going to happen, friend, but a man can dream. Nathaniel tells the Widow he has no honor left and she offers to fight him because apparently that’s how one performs a job interview in the Badlands. When they’ve each got a knife pointed at the other’s pressure point, Minerva lets Nate Dog know he’s got the job he never really wanted, so he asks about vacation days and health benefits and they’re off to the Sanctuary. Ally Ionannides as Tilda …