Weems is oddly dismissive of Wednesday’s mention of Tyler’s mom and says only that she is disappointed to see Wednesday go. Wednesday tells Weems what Tyler told her, and Weems responds by saying that Wednesday (1) will be expelled immediately and (2) could have just brought her this intel so they could’ve worked together. He remembers every murder and he is gloating over Wednesday’s loss because no one will ever believe her. Or does he?! The show does a very good job here of keeping us guessing here - is Wednesday crazy or is she the only one who ISN’T crazy? - right up until the real reveal, when Tyler pulls her over for a sidebar where he drops his sweet little normie act to tell her the truth: he IS a Hyde. Wednesday can’t believe the sheriff doesn’t know his son’s true identity. Weems calls the Sheriff who arrives just as Wednesday picks up a hammer to “test Tyler’s reflexes.” Miraculously the sheriff is not pressing kidnapping charges. Wednesday’s classmates snitch to Weems that Wednesday is torturing Tyler. I’d say she and Tyler would watch it on their next movie night at the crypt but something tells me they’re not planning a second date anytime soon. I know she’s a little busy at the moment but I think that as a loner, a writer, and someone with a proclivity for violence against her fellow men, Wednesday would get a lot out of The Card Counter. She has a taser and a LOT of other scary-looking torture devices, so all her accomplices bail. Tyler maintains his mom was bipolar in the normie way, not the Jekyll-and-Hyde way, so Wednesday just goes full Zero Dark Thirty on him. Galpin’s “condition” was triggered by postpartum depression, which is VERY close to that trope of mom-dying-in-childbirth-so-dad-can-never-forgive-the-son that I mentioned… I will not riot because I have recapping to do but I want you to know I’m not thrilled. (She was on the fencing team with Morticia.) Thing swiped Tyler’s mom’s medical records so Wednesday knows that Mrs. Wednesday reveals that my hunch was correct and Tyler’s mom was an outcast. But Tyler isn’t thinking about this Tyler is waking up chained to a chair in Xavier’s haunted art shed. FINALLY we see the siren powers put to use as Bianca enchants Tyler and again I must say it was a misstep not to show us Bianca-as-siren in action from the very start of the season. I found Goody and her Party Rental wig situation to be far less compelling than the rest of the story but it’s still weird to have built up her role so much only for her one contribution to be a deus ex machina, this-ghost-heals-all-wounds maneuver.īut, back to Wednesday confronting Tyler: I am relieved to see that she is finally learning to play nicely with others and she brought her friends with her (Bianca, a bunch of students who I don’t believe have spoken or really been seen much all season).

But - getting a bit ahead of ourselves here - Wednesday is quite sane from start to finish, and Goody never seems all that crazy, either, and whatever vision-guidance Goody was going to provide Wednesday never comes to pass because literally all Goody does is show up to disappear, apparently forever.

Wouldn’t it be more interesting if her visions led her astray? We were also told that her visions, left unmanaged, would drive her insane, and that this is what happened to Goody. Instead, it turns out that all of her visions have been leading her to this truth: Tyler as the Hyde. She has no evidence! Wednesday, cool your jets and build a case! Is this how Viper the teen detective gets things done?Īlso, I’ll just say up here that I was a little disappointed that several key threads re: Wednesday’s visions just went nowhere in this finale, the first of which being the warning from Xavier that her visions would be unreliable and only show her a misleading fraction of the truth. She goes right up to Tyler to say that she knows he’s the Hyde, based solely on her vision. But seeing Wednesday appears to have learned absolutely nothing from her previous confrontations, I’m wondering: Can Wednesday actually absorb new information and act on it? Apparently not, which suggests to me the academic rigor of her institution is … lacking. And I’m not complaining, because obviously that would be boring. I realize, now that we’ve reached the season finale, that we have virtually never seen Wednesday or her friends in class, or doing homework, or preparing for exams.

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