Even the big bads this season (Pilgrim and Cressida) don’t feel like villains.
Everyone’s perspective is taken into account now, and you can emphathize with almost all of them. Taking this apporach is quite an ambitious and emotionally mature move for Badlandsto take, one that balances out the extreme violence we witness from episode to episode quite nicely. We learn more about “the gift”, the Meridian Chamber, Azra, Pilgrim’s schemes, Sunny’s relationship to Pilgrim, Cressida’s distrust of Sunny, and the detailed motivations of pretty much everyone ever.īut I’m not going to call it long-winded. But in its defense, this episode was designed to be the connective tissue that gives us clarity on a few storylines that didn’t have enough time to gel together during the first half of the season. Yes, “Chamber of the Scorpion” is overloaded with exposition.
