Helix "Scion" (Season 2, Ep.3) [Review]

I still say the tag line is stupid.
And this episode was just trippy.
Everyone is either insane, or on drugs, or...

Hatake is back! Hatake is back! Hatake is back!

... getting handjobs from a creepy cultist.  
No, seriously.
That is more or less the way this episode begins.

3 out of 5 stars

The creepy bald child abandoning Curly Howard knock off is getting a handy from the chick who tried to seduce Texas (the new guy, the guy from Texas... I don't remember his name) by taking her top off in the last episode. Boob-Flasher McHandy.

This whole episode was written to be uncomfortable, and off kilter. Considering how many people are insane, tripping, or just off their rocker... I think, you the viewer, are meant to feel the same.

On a boat! Four check marks for the symptoms on the boat.

The best thing in this episode is the return of Hatake. Unfortunately he brings with him the 'Hatake Blur'. When he is insane and talking to the dead, the screen suffers from an element of blur. It is quite irritating. Correction, it is unbelievably irritating... and really adds nothing to the scenes. We, the audience, can be trusted to figure out how insane he is.

He spews green blood when shot.

Also, Hatake appears to be in the half of the show set some 10,956 days in the future. A few days over 30 years. Great.

Then we give drugs to children that make them really creepy. I mean kids are creepy enough in packs... movies have taught us this time and again. Have we learned nothing from Village of the Damned or Children of the Corn?     

Ah, the terrible 'Hatake Blur.' So bad.

Meanwhile Alan does the worst job ever of sneaking about and breaking in. Seriously... every act he takes should have raised more than one red flag. It was just bad... almost like the writers just dipped their pens into TV Trope brand ink and used that to write all of Alan's scenes in this  episode.

Despite Hatake's return this episode felt like a downswing. It was sorta creepy, and it tied somewhat in with last season, but it really did not have the shock value or the intriguing aspect of the last two episodes.

I hope next weeks episode is better...  

Honestly, this was not creepy at all. It was predictable.
Cmon Helix, pretend to be better.
Oh, and I added the blur in this image.

Previous Helix Season 2 Reviews:

- S2 Ep. 1: San Jose
- S2 Ep. 2: Reunion

Previous Helix Season 1 Reviews:

- Eps. 1 & 2: Pilot and Vector
- Ep. 4: Single Strand
- Ep. 5: The White Room
- Ep. 6: Aniqatiga
- Ep. 7: Survivor Zero
- Ep. 8: Bloodlines 
- Ep. 9: Level X
- Ep. 10: Fushigi
- Ep. 11: Black Rain
- Ep. 12: The Reaping