what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott back again with
my weekly recap breakdown review of the latest episode of hulu's nine perfect strangers we're
talking episode 7 which was titled wheels on the bus an episode in which we see everyone's wheels
is going off of the bus and we're breaking it all down here in this spoiler review but before we
do so make sure you're checking me out on all my other social media accounts if you all are
new to the channel well welcome to the community consider subscribing to the channel and while you
all are at it make sure you hit that notification bell that way you can get the alert from when i
drop new content if you all enjoyed this spoiler review make sure to like and share this review it
helps out the channel so much but i also really appreciate the support and in those comments
let's talk about this seventh episode this is the second to last episode we get some pretty big
reveals in regards to carmel looking like method man taking out marsha many years ago and obviously
i assume she's the one that's been texting her this whole time but let's talk about the marconis
and going on this psychedelic trip with masha and everything in between let me know your pros your
cons and your thoughts and theories about what you hope to see in next week's finale in the comments
below so just quick initial thoughts before i dive into this episode and break it all down
ah man this this goes back to if you all remember if you've been following all my reviews the first
half of this show has been really like to me was really kind of poor writing the pacing
wasn't there it wasn't all that intriguing but then it hit a little bit of a run the last like
three episodes have been pretty solid but this seventh episode kind of goes back in that vein
of how i felt in the first half of the show where it's just like they feel like incomplete scenes
characters interrupting one another and it's just like it's we're one more episode i feel like this
show is just kind of petering out in regards to just like a pretty unsatisfying conclusion but
hey we haven't gotten the finale i'm just basing off of this last the second last episode i'm not
really the biggest fan of this episode but we're gonna find some things to talk about positively
but also negatively but let me know your thoughts overall on this episode wear rings for you as far
as all seven episodes so far so let's break it all down as we jump to the events of masha's
flashback as we see her daughter being hit by the car and we see her saying to herself in current
timeline i will be with you soon and this is where she's interrupted again there
was a lot of interruptions in this episode by different characters as she's having this moment
carmel comes running up to her smacking her in the face calling her lillian confusing her with her
ex-husband's new wife so we always kind of knew carmel out of all these nine perfect strangers
which now the more i think about that title none of them are really strangers per se right we have
a family of three that know each other we have a married couple we have a journalist who probably
if you google them you can look them up francis you know she's a book writer you can look her up
tony's an ex-football player so literally now just thinking about it it was always carmel right she's
own she's the only one that isn't somewhat famous or has a following or whatever the case would be
so the show really kind of i guess the big reveal of carmel wasn't all that surprising to me but you
know we'll get to that a little bit later but let me know if you guys were kind of on the same beat
now looking back on it it was always going to be carmel but let's move forward to the marconis who
are to be frank not the best parents and not just referring to what happened to zach per
say but just how they're treating zoey in this whole season but in particular in this episode
pressuring her to do this treatment like she's a you know she just turned 21 she's an adult she can
make her own decisions but that pressure that her parents are putting her in this episode was pretty
frustrating for me but we check in with carmel at this point who's fully strapped to a gurney
and just is completely going off the rails or as jessica says says uh the wheels on the bus are off
now but we see the rest of the crew here's about carmel and this is where we see there were some
really weird moments in this episode as we see and this is supposed to be like a serious moment right
everything's going down and one of the guests is freaking out but francis is having a hallucination
where she sees tony actually being a character from her book which is like fabio talking about
the house and the dog and obviously this isn't real so she's just kind of again showing you
the effects of the drugs that they're on but lars and marsha they they have several conversations in
this episode and this conversation here is about potentially overdosing carmel and he knows what
happened to the guests that died last year and and the wife believes that it's the the responsibility
of tranquillium as far as her husband or particularly marcia is responsible for her death
her husband's death which i kind of assumed that when we talked about it a couple weeks ago but it
was a lot of frustration this episode this is one of mars is just like i know he wants to cover the
story but morally speaking i know that he's kind of a great character but it's just like he could
have put a stop to this very early on but he's just continuously going along with this stuff like
he could have stopped the marconis that we'll talk about here there's just a lot of frustration with
these characters in this seventh episode which by this point in the season i should be like really
caring and really emotionally connected to these characters but i'm just not there let me know how
you all are feeling about these characters and lars in this episode but masha blames that the
husband ate too many cheeseburgers and that's the reason why he had a heart attack and died
and we see another character interrupting this scene uh where francis comes in and she's seeking
answers about her feelings for tony is it real is it fake is it her fear and another weird scene
they're just looking at each other as masha she's the wheel's off the bus for all the characters
she's just like are you afraid and masha's like i'm always afraid they're just like laughing at
each other again they're all just like wtf what's going on with all these characters but it's the
drugs ladies and gentlemen don't do drugs kids at home but lars and zoe have a discussion about
the miss dosing and how real doctors can misdose people how zack was given drugs by a doctor that
prescribed him for his asthma but it caused him to you know take his own life this than the other
an interesting conversation yet again interrupted by a character as masha comes in and she wants to
talk to zoey and this is where we get the marconis and lara sitting in as he's recording all this
stuff masha's talking about this new uh dose that they're going to put them on to go on this
you know this trip to see their son it's a mixture of like dmt lsd and a few other different
medications and she describes this as is like it's going to amplify their senses and they're going to
be able to really dive deep into their imagination but more importantly they'll be able to see zach
and again this is where i'm just frustrated by the marconi's uh you know napoleon and heather
their daughter is very vulnerable right now she's just celebrating her 21st birthday where she's
been celebrating the past 20 with her twin brother he's not there but then they're just
like come on zoe let's let's do it as a family zoe and of course i can understand the pressure
from masha because she obviously is doing this selfishly but it's just like come on man
you guys are her parents supposed to be her you know even though she's an adult you still
her parents are supposed to be have her best interest but they're pushing her to do this drug
it was just it was stupid to me man it really was frustrating but again it just shows you
the desperation more or less of these characters to try to
make up for their wrongs they want to see their son which to me is just like that seems worse
that's not going to fix anything if you're seeing a hallucination of your son he's not real so
it speaks to the the the trauma and the and what that family's going through but i'm just like you
guys aren't really there for your daughter that is here and present and still alive so it is
i can see where the story story's going i just don't think it's all written all that perfectly
in regards to really hitting that nail in the head but moving forward we get a quick little
glimpse of masha's killer and to me it looked like method man but we reveal who that killer is later
in the episode but at this point yao and delilah are still in conflict and she wants to leave the
tranquility he's like we can't leave now which yeah i mean i've told it with yao in regards
to yeah this is some [ __ ] that we shouldn't be dealing with but let's at least help these
people out in the meantime but no she's like this is this is already too dangerous and her mission
is to get all get away from tranquility but this is supposed to be a serious moment we have been
following these characters the entire season in regards to tony and francis will they won't they
will they have relationship will they move out you know and be a couple together and he's they're
having this conversation and she goes into how she doesn't want to go on this plane she doesn't want
to dive into this relationship uh and and tony's obviously upset by this and i'm supposed to be
as an audience and this might just be me maybe you all feel bad for them but i can care less
i don't really care for those characters in regards to their relationship because to me
the development or lack of development of me caring about them as a couple has just been
poorly executed again i know some of you all want them to you know are shipping them all season and
again it's been the writing's been on the wall since they first met in the first episode like
oh they're going to be a thing but it's just been poorly executed in regards i just don't care about
tony or francis or frankly any of these characters at this point of this season but we go back to
speaking of don't caring mr and mrs i don't care as we check in with ben and jessica and they're
having a conversation about renewing their vows and you know she mentions the whole title of the
episode the wheels on the bus are falling apart and i'm convinced at this point in the season
either they're gonna die one of them are gonna die or witness something pivotal or they are
literally the most pointless characters and this well they're already the most pointless
scares in the show but it's like it's it would be very apparent if nothing happens to the next
week it was just a waste of time whenever we share a screen with them but i'm i'm assuming
next week jessica or ben is going to die or they're going to see something very pivotal
to the show because everything up into this point has been zero development zero interest on my end
they are so pointless and whenever we go to them i could care less but let's move on as lars reveals
why he is i don't know again lars is pissing me off he should have said this in the room with
the marconis but he's talking to masha privately in regards to the last time she upped someone's
dosage they died and you know and i'm just like and by the way as i mentioned last week in my
review as you all can see now i believe matcha in some way she thinks she's helping these
people like you know if they're suffering from bipolar if they're suffering from grief or loss
like she's helping them but selfishly it's helping her i think she's using all these people as like
test dummies as you know lab rats we'll see if it fixes them kudos to them but it's more or
less to fix my trauma to maybe make me be able to see my daughter so she's using the falconies
as a way of their grief and their depression of losing a loved one and particularly losing a
a son losing a kid she lost a kid and she's using them kind of exploiting their trauma lars pretty
much says exactly what i assume that she was just doing this for her own gain that she's using the
marconis to find a way to let me test on these dummies and then use this if it works successfully
to my advantage where i can see my daughter again so he pretty much lays out what i assumed in my
theory was last week and she's like no it's not from her own gain she assures him that she wants
to help them out but we know it's just for her to be able to see her daughter but delilah is packing
her bag she is on her way out of the tranquillium and she's going to get the police involved we cut
samasha telling francis about her daughter's death and again this is supposed to be an intimate more
serious careful moment about her daughter and the only time that she felt like she had purpose or
she wasn't selfish is when she was a mom and she wants to go back to that feeling which out of the
entire episode that was the most genuine moment of the show or in this particular episode because i
felt that the way nicole kitman delivered that line and you felt that pain and you can see
even though it's completely selfish and ridiculous and unethical and just morally speaking terrible
what she's doing but you kind of fell for at least i did that i feel like okay yeah she she wants to
get back to that feeling of being a mother but it's still a selfish obviously a selfish thing
of how she's going about doing that but we see delilah at this point she's completely off the
rails the wheels on the bus have coming off of that character she wants to leave the gate's not
opening up she's yelling she's freaking out but she eventually which i'm just like dude you can
hop over this fence but she eventually pops out of the wooden fence and is on her way to get the cops
involved it's time for the marconis to get their treatment and they are changing their mind they're
like no we don't want to do this anymore but then masha pulls a 180 a hail mary per se and she's
like you know what i'm gonna go on this trip with you guys and i'm just like this is so stupid and
lars is just there like what are you doing marshall you do they do you could have stopped
this you know hours ago but she's gonna go on this trip with them we we wrapped the episode with her
taking the drug yeah i was like dude this is crazy the wheels on the bus wow i don't know what to do
she's like listen keep them you know occupied i'm gonna check in with carmel i'm gonna find you in
about 30 40 minutes she goes in to check on carmel and this is the big moment as carmel at this point
is singing and dancing packing her bags uh she believes you know she's talking to masha she
believes that she should get better treatment from an actual doctor she says to masha that you know i
don't need to be here because it's not safe for me to be around you and big moment here as we get the
cut to the method man character that is revealed to have been ma uh carmel she has her little uh
contacts in her eyes and it's safe to assume that not only yes she shot her many many many
years ago which obviously was a stepping stone for masha to get to this point to be the you know who
she is and create everything that she's created with tranquillium but also i think it's pretty
safe to say that carmel's been the one that's been texting her this entire time this season
regarding the the dead you know goat's head you're gonna die and all that different stuff and so yeah
again it was kind of telegraphed this whole time because as i mentioned up top all of the
characters aren't necessarily strangers this is really one stranger in this carmel and obviously
carmel has ties to how masha almost died and there and then lillian and the ex-husband and all
that stuff so i'm assuming next week masha's and carmel she's going to probably keep her captive
while mosh is on this psychedelic trip she's going to probably go back and see her daughter
have a moment there the marconi is gonna probably see their son and realize that this isn't reality
they're gonna probably try to break out of it i think by the end of the day i don't think
anyone's gonna probably die if they do someone's gonna be accidentally shot or pushed off a cliff
but by the time you know all that kind of happens i imagine that delilah um is going to probably
have the cops come so we'll see maybe next week's finale is going to blow my socks off but
based on this uh second to last episode i expect to probably be disappointed but i'm going to be
optimistic i'm going to keep the energy high and the hopes high but hey that's just my thoughts on
the seventh episode wasn't all that impressed the only moment i thought was genuine was when masha
was talking about being a mother but outside of that everything else felt incomplete felt
rushed and felt like they were just running to the finish line but hey let me know your thoughts on
the seventh episode if you enjoyed it i'm glad you did let me know your positives but also if
you're more like me and thought it was more kind of lackadaisical lackluster per se let me know
your thoughts on that and of course your thoughts your theories and predictions what you hope to see
in next week's finale let's talk about it in the comments section if you stuck around to this point
this review i appreciate every single one of you all for all the reviews that you've been
supporting so far i appreciate you make sure before you leave to like the video share the video
leave your thoughts in the comments of course subscribe to the channel if you haven't already
hit that bell that way you don't miss any other future content as you can see
on the screen now subscribe to the channel check out my other content my other playlist
hope you all enjoyed this review hope you're staying safe we'll see you in the next video