Wolf Pack episode 108, Trophic Cascade, drops early Thursday morning on Paramount Plus.
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Blake: Did you see Ramsay in the parking garage too?
The title of this week's episode - Trophic Cascade - tells us absolutely nothing about what's coming.
A trophic cascade in its simplest form is when the food chain is disrupted.
This can be the addition of a new predator into an
environment leading to a decrease of animals at lower levels on the chain,
but increasing the availability of flora and fauna that is the food source for those lower animals,
meaning that those that survive have an easier time finding dinner and the world gets greener.
The closest parallel I can find for Wolf Pack is when the cascade goes bottom up.
That is, basic food stuff for lower animals is scarce - like
after a wildfire - this leads to fewer of those animals in the middle surviving and
putting competitive pressure on the predators at the top.
Either way the cascade goes., basically the animals in the middle get screwed.
If you can read some plot details for this week's episode in that mishegoss, you're smarter than me.
But maybe mishegoss is the point .
The tease for the season finale is longer, but that doesn't mean it tells us anything at all.
Blake: Let him die. Harlan: But he's part of the pack.
It's a mess of seemingly random scenes and tantalizing snatches of dialogue.
Ramsey: Everything changes now. Briggs: Do you trust me?
Ramsey: No. You asked me to trust you, can you trust me now?
That exchange there has been said a thousand times since these
two met but this is the first time it's been spoken out loud.
We can say that more of the bodies have been discovered and other agencies have
apparently taken over Kristin's investigation just as Ranger Briggs feared would happen.
Blake: Did you see Ramsey in the parking garage too? Luna: Everett can take care of himself.
Harlan: But he's part of the pack. Luna: There is no pack Harlan.
It looks like my guy Danny gets to tattle on Ramsay. That makes me very happy.
But then we learn Everett is in trouble and Luna is being cold about it - that is new.
I cut out the part where Blake says "let him
die" because we know she's not talking about Everett there.
The only thing I can imagine is this is some choice between protecting Austin
or helping Everett in the aftermath of last week's
stabbing and Luna is siding with her crush and denying the pack.
Something went down after that stabbing y'all.
We have yet to see it but it's gonna be good, I just know it.
Here's a behind the scenes image or two that goes a little further than
the tease does as far as that scene is concerned.
And later we get this redshift image it appears to be the freezer maybe?
And that's definitely the knife but is that Everett holding it?
Again, it just seems random.
But in Luna's defense, Everett is in a better position against
a mad-to-be-stabbed Baron than would be poor Stabby McStabberson Austin.
But still, Harlan is supposed to be the cold uncaring one so this
heel turn for Luna is kind of concerning for me.
Ramsey: If you know something you need to tell me. Harlan: I'm really good at
knowing when someone's lying. Ramsey: Can you tell if I'm lying?
And then we get this confrontation between Harlan
and Kristin Ramsey - I have zero clue what that's about.
Also, do they look like they're in the hospital again? This shot and
this shot and this shot when Everett says he's not a danger to himself.
Again, it's just a lot of chaos without clarity.
I am interested in what appears to be a car accident featuring Baron.
I honestly feel like this is a flashback. I mean we have a blonde ponytail driving.
I thought Luna and Ranger Briggs at first but I'm leaning toward these actually being
people we don't know in a memory of some sort because why is Baron there?
Also, why is Baron talking to Cyrus? This does not bode well at all.
But this this has to be the biggest what the what?
When and where is this cuddle session taking place?
Iit definitely adds accelerant for the folks who
think Kristin is the mommy but I'm just like, what?
This episode is directed by my friend Jeff Davis.
He also developed Wolf Pack for television and writes a bunch.
I really hope this episode is good so it doesn't get awkward when I do this week's review video.
Jeff Davis: I'm pretty good with it actually.
I always say the same thing at this point - it's up to the gods now.
I did the best I could. I did the best work I could in the in the
amount of time I was given, with all the parameters I was given.
So really it's, did we please ourselves when we've watched the final product?
Yes we did.
There were moments when I was watching in the
final color correction and sound mix where I was like, "okay that works".
So that makes me happy.
The Wolf Pack season finale drops early Thursday morning in the U.S.,
Friday in some other countries.