[Music] we are back discussing serving season 4 episode 3 titled Seance an episode that shows
Dorothy hiring two living nurses to help speed up her recovery and protect her from Leanne now this
episode was written and directed by Shawna Knight Shyamalan who I've said in the past is one of my
favorite directors of the series but the question is does she continue her hot streak as a director
do we learn the true identity of these nurses and what exactly is going on in these nightmares that
Leanne is having in this episode we'll be discussing that and so much more in today's
spoiler breakdown review but before we get into it let's start the conversation in the comments below
what did you all think about this third episode was it your favorite out of three your least
favorite somewhere in the middle let's talk pros and cons and deeper meanings Easter eggs that you
all took away from this episode and of course if you all enjoyed today's breakdown make sure you're
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loves talking about this show just as much as we do without that being said let's get into this
week's breakdown full spoilers ahead we open the episode with Roberta and Beverly AKA Bobby and
Bev AKA B and B giving Sean Julian and Leanne their welcome routine which is hoping to make
the Turner's life a breeze and have Dorothy on her feet now I can't be the only one that's thinking
this that was a little bit weird and creepy right but immediately you see ashana's style
as a director as we get these extreme close-ups and the tilting of the camera on Leanne's face
and I love the flare that she brings to her Direction and how it plays into the narrative
because as the camera is tilting on Leanne's face you can look at that as the perspective of Leanne
as though her mindset has been off-kilter because these new guests are in the house and this changes
the atmosphere and the dynamic of this home but more surprises are in store as we're introduced
to this new living space for the nurses we learned that Leanne was meant to live here at one point
but there was a change of plans once she had to take care of the baby more but we'll discuss
this later something definitely happened in this space at one point in time involving Dorothy and
Julian's mother speaking of Julian he refers to the nurses as The Shining twins which I thought
was very hilarious as we get a little bit of Pillow Talk between him and Leanne who as we know
she believes that they were sent from the church and even though Julian checked on their background
we know Leanne has to point out that he might have missed some things as she states they think I'm
stupid and I can't see an attack coming haven't they seen what I do to people who threatened me
I love that line there as we see Dorothy in his episode is determined to get out of bed and she is
willing to do anything to make this happen which we'll get into in a bit but let's discuss this
brief moment here with Leanne in this dark black crow and these visions and these nightmares as it
seems to be pointing us towards the future as we get this snow like substance or as I would imagine
is probably ash from a fire we're gonna get back to that scene a little bit here but we see Leanne
wakes up from this nightmare and has this sense of urgency and almost his sense of fear of herself or
more or less what's inside of her and what she's capable of as she starts to notice the nurses new
touches around the house an attempt to cleanse this house of all the negative energy seem to
see Bev and Bobby one by one attempting to make their presence felt in this home and they start
off with Julian who they offer him a book that can help with organization and they let honey pie know
that things are changing meanwhile Leanne finds another one of their items of influence but this
time it's found in Jericho's bed in the form of a stuffed animal labeled from Auntie Bobby and Bev
as Leanne throws it in the trash it's important to remember that things are on thin ice right
now with Leanne's patience especially in this season now I have submit while my sympathy for
Dorothy has weighed extremely thin this scene with her describing how it feels and how she
feels hopeless when she's hearing Jericho crying in other room and there's really nothing she can
do about it and that being really the main reason why she wants to get back and start walking again
really kind of played at my heartstrings how did you all feel about that but it's also important
to know that she mentions that it's been four months she sees fail in last season's finale
but a little bit more in this scene here I think subconsciously this is her way of kind of making
up what really happened to Jericho when he passed knowing that he was probably crying for hours in
that hot car and Dorothy wasn't there to help him let me know what you all think about that getting
back to Bobby and Bev's gifts Sean is giving a love language book as he reads between the
lines of his lack of communication with his wife as he begins to get motivated to do the best thing
he's known for which is cooking going back to my early comment on something bad happening in that
new living space of the nurses we see Julian is told by Sean to put their Amazon orders downstairs
but first we get this somewhat offbeat scene with Leanne seeing her new bed sheets organized clothes
and closet and a book titled social skills for teens and Post-it notes all over the room leaving
Leanne more upset now to me this is where some of my criticism lies this show has always been
a quirky and somewhat off-putting comedy satire but this episode The Comedy felt a little uneven
and totally off at points and this scene me and one of them now of course Kami is subjective but
comment below how did you all feel about the comedy beats in this episode especially coming
from Leanne back to Julian who is clearly afraid and has some discomfort when being downstairs so
my question that I have for you all is do we see something happening to June land when he
was younger when he went down there maybe he found his mom or dad cheating or maybe even darker do we
believe she might have died downstairs and maybe even took her own life and he found her let me
know your thoughts on that in the comments below now this is cut between Dorothy forcing the issue
with her walking again as she manages to stand up but she ultimately Falls and she's upset by
this as I mentioned in my episode one review I do believe Leanne will end up helping Dorothy walking
in with her powers to get back into good Grace but we'll see what comes of that back with Julian on
his hunts of finding if they're church members he finds this very mysterious box and we know when it
comes to boxes in this show that it tends to be a bad box associated with the Saints we see Julian
open this mysterious box and I don't think none of us saw this coming because what we find in this
box is wait for it that's right sex toys there are sex toys filled in this box and the question
I want to bags for you all is do we believe these sex toys belong to Bobby or Beverly I gotta admit
guys this was by far a great moment for me because it really played against our expectation thinking
that we're something dark and Sinister and that the Saints kits of weapons were gonna be there
but instead it's a kit of Pleasures which would probably explain why they're so happy all the time
but seriously this is one of the funniest moments I've seen in this series let me know what you all
thought of that very pleasure filled box that Julian found bats who are back and forth match
with Leanne Ian B after finding the stuffed animal yet again and Jericho's bed she just wants them to
make their move but do you notice something with Leanne in the scene it's her clothes most of this
episode she's wearing kind of neutral colors but now she's in all black which to me foreshadows was
coming a little bit later in this episode again I also want to point out the camera tilt which
again shows Leanne's headspace and her being on on edge and falling deeper into the madness cut
to Sean trying to communicate with Dorothy with his amazing cooking but we have a couple Easter
eggs here in the scene one being if you listen closely to the news reporter she mentions that
the hospitals are overflow with patients which to me points more to the city being in chaos due to
Leanne's crack back in episode one but we also see Dorothy reading this book now I couldn't make out
the first word but the second word said projection which to me makes me think she's reading a book
about astral projection which is a term to describe a out of body experience which may
be pointing towards her willing to do something on this matter to get back to walking again but
we go back to Bev and Bobby filling shot in on Dorothy's setback and they also let him know about
Leanne's distressing them and Julian is struggling with something so their question is what is going
on in this house and it's time for some honesty now we know when it comes to honesty in Turner's
house that's is a word that doesn't exist in this household as Sean somewhat opens us up a little
bit and he believes his family doesn't know how to cope well with loss especially with loss in this
house this is very key he goes on to say Dorothy and Julia's mom for example and he stops what
happened to their mother let's speculate about that in the comments below but BNB take this
opportunity to do something radical as it is time for the family Seance now this Seance is all for
Dorothy to set her attentions she wants guidance and wants a little bit of help from Bobby who
becomes a vessel step one being the passageway we see them bringing the box of cigars and in comes
Uncle Bob and this seems a little bit lucky for a first try so let's move on to our next item which
is a watch and it's their mother with a memory of when Dorothy was little she would go to her
bed when she was afraid now remember this memory we see Julian gets his own message which is for
give himself and people make mistakes and there's something else it's a warning the Turner's house
is here but it's different it's writing from within and there's a dark shadow like storm
remember this description something is Tethered to the house and this family it's evil and there's a
baby crying now we see Julian and Sean want this to end because the truth is starting to
come out and Dorothy wants to hear more they say it's death time to close the doors to the other
side now to me this was Bobby or the spirit of her mother telling Dorothy to acknowledge what
happened in the past involving Jericho and it's time to move on which I'm sure we're gonna get
this moment probably in the finale and have to wait to see how it all plays out but there's one
more item and it comes from Leanne she pulls out the infamous knife that we've seen from the Lesser
Saints and she forces Bobby to pick it up and goes over what's the next step false witness shall be
punished and a liar shall be caught Leanne takes it upon herself to go to the next level and pushes
Bobby on the floor and cuts her dress open and Leanne gets her answer she's not a lesser Saints
member lights are now on and Dorothy is full upset mother mode as you tell Leanne's to go
to her room and Leanne storms off like a little teenager embarrassed by her mom we see Julian
questions what Leanne would have done if she would have found scars on Bobby's back and Leanne says
something that was pretty haunting I would have killed her and man did I failed that line we end
this episode with another piece offering from Sean as he has to go into work and speaking
of work this peace offering actually works but Dorothy lets him know that things will never be
the same as we see Leanne sleeping and comes into this other Vision nightmare to what's to come of
her destruction of the city but also this house as we see the streets are filled with destroyed
cars there's debris three and Ash and we pan over to the house and we see the broken glass and there
is that dark shadow figure floating like a storm in a living room appears to be the last thing
standing in this house and possibly in the city and one would believe this is the darkness that's
been festered inside Leanne in his purest form now maybe this is something to come by the season in
but also this is the exact same vision Bobby had in that Seance as we end with Dorothy waking up to
the TV off and I'll be honest with you all this is one of my worst nightmares waking up in the
middle of the night and first hearing someone breathing very heavily behind you and rolling
over to a complete stranger but in this case it's Dorothy Roland Cillian who we see is doing
exactly what Dorothy did as a kid after having a bad nightmare being afraid she would go into
her mother's bed the end now my overall thoughts on this episode is this was accidentally extra
shoot it from a directional perspective from the off tilt camera movements to the extreme
close-ups and the high production value I will say it once again Shauna Knight Shyamalan is
a fantastic director and she was my MVP of this episode but getting into my criticisms I do have
some concerns right now how this show is going to be handling the unanswered questions that dates
back all to season one but how will they handle this moving forward will they give it to us in
the forms of these Vision slash nightmares and honestly I don't think it's the best idea to be
introducing new characters at this point with this being the final season because we still haven't
really got full answers of our main characters backstory but getting back to the positives I
will say that we do get one of those questions answered from this season alone which is is BNB
part of the Lesser Saints well at least Bobby's in a clear for now the verdict's still out for
Bev but I also think that they kind of represent this reflection of light to fight against Leanne's
evil and darkness but the question is how long will this last but speaking of lasting I believe
Julian may be anythings with Leanne pretty soon especially seeing how far she's willing to go but
the question is exactly what will Leanne do if he tries to break up with her but going back to
Julian I'm so curious if we'll ever explore what exactly happened to their mother but overall to me
this was the best episode out of three so far but enough of my thoughts share yours in the comments
from what do you all think about those nightmares shown this episode and if that's foreshadowing for
future episodes share any Easter eggs theories and predictions you all have in the comments below now
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