Prodigal Son is back! And Roswell, New Mexico just keeps getting crazier. With so many shows ending or on hiatus, I’ve come to really enjoy my Monday night television.
Kicking off the night was Roswell, New Mexico which saw Isobel beating the darkness right of out Max (for now?), but another problem that emerged with his resurrection is that he has no memories of who Liz is! So they basically get to redo their courtship. Even though Max eventually remembers her by episode end, something still seems a bit off with him. Elsewhere in the hour, Isobel decides she wants to branch out and heads to a gay bar where she ends up finding Kyle! This scene was gold.
On the the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Maria takes Alex to find out more information about her mother’s abduction. They end up with a flat tire in the middle of nowhere and get some super creepy hospitality from a farmer. Well that guy ends up stabbing Alex and chasing Maria through a corn maze before Michael shows up to help out! Aside from Jordan Peele making some wonderful songs all sorts of creepy (“I Got 5 On It’), I am now a little skeezed out by “I Think We’re Alone Now,” the usually happy and upbeat 80s song. So I’d say that’s a job well done. Most shocking scene of the night goes to that threesome between Michael, Maria, and Alex! Somehow Roswell keeps topping itself week after week, so I’m looking forward to next week.
After a lengthy break on Prodigal Son, it’s back with its final two episodes, and this one’s got a fair amount of twists. Eve dumped Malcolm, but not even ten minutes after revealing that to Ainsley, he finds out she’s dead. A “suicide” that Malcolm immediately assumes was murder. The family then congregates in Martin’s cell, but Martin still wants them all to drop it. He’s legitimately afraid of Nicholas Endicott. Good for that guy, I guess. It’s clear that more people are going to be dead by season’s end because they all know too much.
Either way, the rest of the episode shows the team trying to find the assassin that Nicholas hired to murder Eve. They get close to the wrong one, and then the actual assassin almost kills Martin in his cell. An angry Malcolm goes to question the assassin, but by the end of the episode he’s dead and Malcolm is the prime suspect. Uh-oh! I assume that Nicholas is behind this but I also can’t put it past Malcolm or maybe even Ainsely? Wouldn’t that be a twist! I hope the finale packs a good punch, because this might be a show I give up on if not.