Take Three: The Resort

The Resort: Season 1, Episode 3 “Tempus Exhaurire” (B)

I’m trying to be into this show since I do like the actors involved and I think that there is some value to the story, but the pace at which it’s proceeding, especially in the present, just isn’t all that inviting. Noah was right that he and Emma should probably go to couples’ counseling when she insisted on climbing down an elevator shaft in an abandoned resort, not thinking until much later about how they might get out of this particularly trepidatious situation. There is something intriguing about how they ended up in exactly the same situation as Sam and Violet did years earlier, hiding in the closet after thinking that they were alone, and there are so many question marks raised by the infinite number of post-its and that very detailed mural that had Balthazar, Luna, Sam, and Violet in it. Now that Balthazar showed up, grabbed the phone, and tried to run, he’s unconscious and possibly dead, and the phone, which started vibrating because a call was coming in, has fallen down, likely never to be found again. We did get to see Sam’s parents and Hannah again, which was fun, and it’s always a treat to have Nick Offerman around, especially in a more dramatic one like this when he was drinking alone by himself on the anniversary of his wife’s death. These first three episodes were presented all together, and so I suppose it’s worth seeing what a second week with a single installment has to offer.