![]() ![]() Not that I’m surprised - the special effects on this show are mind-blowingly great.) Maura pulls that bullet headed toward her out of the air, opens the cabinet to let the boy out, realizes this whole time thing must have something to do with that pyramid, and then the two of them are off. (That shot of everyone standing there frozen? It’s insanely good. Daniel starts to jump in front of the bullet, and time just stops. It becomes more than just yelling as they try to stop Maura, and one guy fires his gun. They’re so freaked out that he’s “alive” they don’t want to take any chances. When Maura goes to pull him out of the cabinet that they’ve locked him in (they locked him in there with a fire poker, making the whole scene look a hell of a lot like the time they pulled him out of that other cabinet), all the dissenters yell out. I guess we should start with the fact that the boy - who, again, has seemingly somehow survived a wild-eyed Danish woman tossing him over the rails of the ship - and his little pyramid can literally stop time. You can see the show shifting into its next gear for its final act. The massive cast is cut down (in the most brutal of ways), leaving just the main ensemble Maura is finally putting some pieces of the puzzle together (or at least realizing she needs to put some pieces together) and the people “in the know” (Daniel, the boy, Maura’s father) are spouting off confusing sentences that you just know are going to have a lot of meaning in an episode or two. Now, of course, 1899 could totally botch the ending and I’ll be eating my words, but “The Calling” leaves me optimistic. The ride is so enjoyable and well-crafted that you don’t want to get off you trust that it’s going somewhere you want to be. We haven’t gotten a lot of answers - and we still don’t ’em here - but there’s been enough intrigue doled out, enough compelling questions posed, and enough well-developed, interesting characters (plus a stellar cast from top to bottom) that you never find yourself frustrated that you have absolutely no idea what’s going on. We’re only five episodes in, so perhaps the overall pacing of the show will be recontextualized once we see where our story will end up, but for now it feels like a perfectly executed slow burn. “The Calling” doesn’t just kick the happenings of 1899 up another notch, it kicks them up all the notches. But now that I’ve seen episode five … well, I’m not so sure any of us have ever grasped the true definition of “escalation” until now. In my defense, I thought they had! The way folks really dug into that mutiny was wild! The fact that they tossed that kid overboard and then he showed up again? Wild! Things had really been kicked up a notch. In the last recap, I started off by declaring that things on 1899 had really escalated.
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