Review: Slower Episode, but still Great
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2013
This episode started out so ominous!As with every episode, it starts out with grown up Venora. Her inner monologue drops hints that something really bad happened with her family once she turned 18, which by the end of this episode is about two years away. As she's driving home, things seem to get worse. She sees shadowy figures out in a field and when she pulls over, thinking it's Armando, he calls her and tells her to "drive. Don't stop again. Just drive." Yikes.We are now four years into the future of the flashbacks - does that make sense? Roman, Alisha, and Venora have pretty much figured out how to make this vampire thing work, with the help of Ryan and Miss... Roman getting the short end of the stick because he is dead to the world, while Alisha at least as the opportunity to be seen in pubic.This is also the episode in which we meet Armando - obviously - another vampire who claims to have been alone for hundreds of years and is grateful to find more vampires as most vampires live in desolate houses and pretty much keep to themselves. He spends a good deal about of time with the Socoli family and eventually earns their trust and the affections of Venora (she's 14-15 at this point).Episode three felt more like a filler to me. It was good, don't get me wrong, but not a lot actually happened. I get it though, you can't constantly have something going on. Downtime is a necessity. Frater moves us forward in the timeline throughout the episode and everything is seemingly perfect. Alisha even has a boyfriend!There is one scene that gets pretty intense, but it was pretty intense in comparison to episodes one and two. This episode brought on a lot of questions. What's the deal with Armando? What are his real intentions? What the heck happened between now and our present day scenes in the beginning of the episode? And most importantly: when does the s*** in the fan (because I know it's going to happen at some point)?