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Season three’s finale disabuses us of the notion that any player is essential enough to keep on the board.
Every supernatural series, from Midnight Mass to Yellowjackets, needs a character resistant to the show’s inner eeriness to deliver persistent conflict, and Eion Bailey and his great head of hair played amusement-park engineer Jim with the exact right amount of wearisome square-mindedness. Season two expanded the world, introducing ruins in the forest that housed a blood-borne pathogen, an evil music box that allowed monsters to attack humans in their dreams, and even a way out of the town, with Jim’s wife, Tabitha Matthews (Catalina Sandino Moreno), stepping into a tree trunk and transporting to Maine. Killing Jim is a big swing and so is how it’s presented: with an emergent new baddie in a snazzy yellow suit saying meta things like, “Knowledge comes with a cost,” and Julie in a time loop, desperate to undo what’s happened to her family.
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