Today I review The Sinner, Episode 2 Season 2.
Hi everybody it's Karin with CompletelyKarin.
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Today I am reviewing The Sinner Season 2 Episode 2.
Let's jump into this.
As always, if you've watched any of my other videos you know that I go into spoilers and
so if you haven't seen this episode yet you may want to go back and watch the episode
first and then come back and watch and leave me a comment so that we can have a chat about
what happened in this episode because, well, I feel like it was a lot.
I think we need to take this in stages because so much was revealed in this episode.
I feel like this mystery is just unfolding right before our eyes.
I am really loving season two.
As I said before in my previous review of episode 1 of season 2; the Sinner Season 1
was good.
It wasn't quite what I was expecting in the end but season two I feel like it is just
moving forward full force and it's exciting and I'm really, really loving it.
So, let's talk about a few things.
Now at the beginning of the episode we realize that it is truly a cult that Julian has grown
up on because when his mother tells them where she lives off of Route 4 Detective Novak knows
immediately what this is and as she explains to Detective Ambrose a little bit later that
this is a place called Mosswood.
So she explains to Detective Ambrose that this is some kind of utopian, and I'm going
to put that in quotes.
She says "utopian" society but we all know that it's a cult – there is no utopia
in a cult.
It's like just crazy thinking, brainwashing, doing exactly what they say when they say
it or else.
I mean we see this all through history.
I just, is there a cult that has a good outcome and they are actually like good people and
they don't end up killing themselves or other people in the end?
I don't know.
If there is tell me because I can't think of one.
Jonestown.
Everyone dies.
Branch Davidian.
Everyone dies.
Heaven's Gate.
Everyone dies.
I don't get it.
Alright, let's talk about the scene when Julian and his mother see each other for the
first time since he has been placed in his foster home since the murders.
She comes in.
Julian comes over to her.
They hug.
He is crying.
And she is holding him and it seems like a tender moment until she starts whispering
things to him.
Now we can't hear what she is whispering.
At first she is talking out loud and she is saying, "It's alright.
I'm here.
It's okay."
And then she starts whispering and even Detective Ambrose realizes this and tries to inch just
a little bit closer because he is thinking…I'm assuming he's thinking, "What is she saying
to him?"
She is whispering something and then she gives Detective Ambrose this looks like, "You
are not going to get your claws into him.
I have complete control over him."
Wow.
Carrie Coon is oh man.
I just, I love her and like I said in my last review, if you haven't watched The Leftovers…it's
an HBO series that she was in.
Wow.
Go watch it.
She is just incredible and so far I have not been disappointed with her character in this
show so far.
I am very excited to see how this is going to turn out.
The thought that kept going through my mind when she was holding him and whispering to
him was, "Oh God.
What has she done to him?
Or what has happened to him?"
Because if you look through history, and it's not the case all the time, but very often
with murderers and serial killers the crime starts when they are young and at home.
Only because it usually is followed with major abuse of all kinds, sexual, physical, emotional,
mental.
And so that thought just kept going through my head of like, "What is happening to him
at this place?
This Utopian society where he has grown up."
Detective Ambrose actually even brings this up and so does the mother.
When she walked out of the house after she has been told she can't take him home she
voices these same concerns.
You must be thinking he has been abused or I feed him Rockstars and let him play video
games all day long or all of these things that could lead to a potential murderer in
a child.
And, what does Detective Ambrose ask her?
"Why do you think Julian would have done this?"
What's her answer?
Oh, okay I just have to say Carrie Coon has the best lines so far in this show but she
says, "My son is so far beyond anything you can understand.
You have no idea."
Oh.
What does that mean?!
Oh my God.
She is wow.
The mystery just keeps getting better.
Okay so let us move on to Detective Novak and her flashbacks of her and her friend when
they sneak onto the compound, we're going to call it.
And decide because they want to do a little – they just want to see what's going on
and they actually get found out and they get invited to go join the group around the fire.
Now the friend looked at the guy who invites them over with this immediate adoration.
It's just, it's so interesting that look she gives because I feel like that is a look
from someone who is in need of guidance.
Who wants to feel a part of something and she is the perfect type of person that cults
really go after and look for because they know their minds can be molded to what they
want.
To do what they want.
So they go sit around the fire and you also realize that Novak and this girl have a relationship.
It's not just friendship.
It's more.
Especially to Novak.
She is in love with this girl.
Now I don't know if this girl feels the same way but she definitely has feelings for
Novak because they kiss throughout.
They are together.
They are very close friends and so for this girl to decide to stay on the compound and
go with that man into that building must have been heartbreaking for Detective Novak.
Especially when she was never seen again.
Knowing a little bit more of the back story of this, losing her friend to this cult and
her feeling of like it was my idea that we go sneak on and see what it's about.
I feel like Detective Novak has this guilt upon her of like if I hadn't said anything
she might still be with me.
We might still be friends.
We might still be more.
I don't know.
But since I never saw her again I feel like it is my fault because it was my idea.
I want to talk a little bit about Julian dreams.
He is clearly having sleep paralysis.
It's terrifying.
When he describes to Detective Ambrose and also when we see it we see this hooded figure
walking across the room going over to him putting its fingers on his lower chest basically
and digging in and it looks like it is going into his soul and he's just laying there
trying to speak, trying to move in sheer terror and he can't.
That is sleep paralysis and I've had that before and let me tell you it is truly the
most terrifying thing.
I had one a few months ago and I hadn't had one in years before that.
But it is exactly the way they portrayed it.
You feel like you're asleep.
It's almost like a hallucination.
You see a presence.
You feel a presence.
And it is real.
And you – like when it happens to me I'm trying to scream.
I am literally trying to sit up, move, do anything I can to get away from this presence.
And you cannot.
It is like someone is strangling your voice because nothing will come out.
It is one of the most terrifying things that has ever happened to me and I really am hoping
that I never have to experience one of those again because it is so scary.
And so to hear Julian having these dreams and how terrifying they are, I felt like oh
this kid.
How scary for him to have to go through this and I love that Detective Ambrose is on this
case because I feel like he really wants to help Julian and figure out what is going on
in this kid's life.
He needs help and he wants to help him.
Okay, two more quick things.
The necklace.
Detective Ambrose, once they go on to the compound and they are looking around he sees
the necklace that used to be Bess's necklace.
He recognized it from the photo.
He starts to realize as he is questioning this girl who is wearing Bess's necklace
that Bess and Adam were not on a trip.
They were running away.
They were escaping and they were taking Julian with them.
So this is a big reveal because before, yes I thought it was weird that they were together
and I thought it was weird that they had Julian with them and the detectives even noted that
they weren't headed in the right direction to be heading toward Niagara Falls but we
didn't quite – that didn't all fit together and we didn't understand.
Now we do.
Now we know that they were escaping.
And then finally, the building.
That building that Detective Novak goes into with the curtains and rock with bloodstains
on it.
What the fuck is that?
That was the building that she watched her friend go into never to be seen again.
What is that?
I am so intrigued.
I cannot wait for the next episode.
I am so excited.
This show is just unfolding at like this perfect pace and all of these things are being revealed
just slowly.
It's like you're peeling back the curtain just a tiny bit and getting little glimpses
here and there but things are starting to make a little bit of sense and obviously it's
not going to all come together until the last episode but I am so excited for the next episode.
I can't wait until next Wednesday.
I'm just thrilled in anticipation to get to next week because I really want more clues
revealed.
This…I'm just…it's done.
I'm so in love with this season so far.
Let me know what you guys are thinking.
What you picked up on in this episode.
I know there was a lot and I probably left out a whole bunch of things.
These were some of the things that I really wanted to talk about.
Leave me a comment below and let me know what you really picked up on.
You guys are awesome.
Thanks so much for watching.
Make sure and check out my next review in a couple of days and I will talk to you soon
on CompletelyKarin.
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