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Season: 2 / Episode: 9, “Vanishing Point” / HBO ***Spoilers be getting the profile read to filth.*** Check out all the season’s recaps rightchea Maaaan, listen. Coming off of Episode 8, I get nervous when an episode starts with William being all reflective and self-referential. It’s a good indication that some wild and unruly shit bout to go down. We getting all the slideshow. Juliet’s bathtub burial, Old Ass William walking in a big ass house, the stairs, even William in Black putting a gun to his head. Fam, the fuck is happening?!?! Player’s Ball Old Ass William at a party entertaining, if you want to call it that. Muthafucka looks miserable around, ya know…humans. He schmoozing with some rich asshole that don’t know his literature when Juliet steps in and drops some more quotables, proving rich kids read too. And…she’s also hitting the sauce pretty hard. This seems important.
All the while, Old Ass William keeps talking about when the darkness crept in and how Juliet was the only one that saw it. Please ignore Dolores as the waitress at this event or the big ass foreshadowing sign blinking at the bottom of the episode. Dad’s Favorite Back in the park, Emily bringing William in Black some water, trying to keep this bastard alive. She done took her pop’s gun, set up at a rally point and set off a flare so they can come get them. Also, let’s make note that Katja Herbers is killing this role as Emily. She tellin’ the story about how she went through her own pain of blamin…
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