Helix [S2] Ep. 7: "Cross Pollination" Review

Talk about an intense and epic climax, this is definitely an episode to remember. I remember when I first heard about the concept of season 2 being about a cult living on an island, I immediately thought about a suicidal scene as it is popular amongst cult followings in the real world. I never thought that the show would've taken it to that point, but my word did it push the envelope this week. Before I get to the iconic moment, let's backtrack to all of the significant moments that lead up that event.

Michael's badass villain transition

First off, we're finally given the origin story of Michael showcasing not only the era in time in which he begun his mission, but also the reasoning. Narrated by Madam Durant to Julia (continuing their conversation from the last episode), we see the year 1601 as Michael walks along a trail surrounded by peasant workers in the field. I really loved this scene as it illustrated a different atmosphere and setting from what we're used to seeing on the show. One of the reasons that I praise this series so much to others is the surprise and mystery factor  that not only lies in it's story but also in it's execution production-wise. You simply never know what the creators will throw at you and here is a perfect example of that. In this flashback, we learn that Michael fell in love with one of the peasant workers and even took the liberty marrying

Helix [S2] Ep. 6: "M. Domestica" Review

Looks like my wishes came true from my past episode review in focusing a little more on the Ilaria storyline. It's always great to see Julia being utilized more as I've always loved her transformation as a character. We start off this week's episode with both Julia and Sergio (awkwardly ending a sex scene by the way) trying to make it in time for one of their Ilaria board meetings. If you go back to my Season 1 finale review, one of my favorite scenes from that episode was seeing the actual "puppeteers" of this powerful corporation for the first time. I love that we actually get a brief, but very significant inside look at the way they operate in shaping the world for their benefit. What we also get to see is the cold hearted, but rightfully understood reasoning behind their goals in wiping out the majority of the mortals to preserve the population. The host of the meeting's presentation spoke of the immortals

Helix [S2] Ep. 5: "Oubliette" Review

Those of you who follow my Helix reviews can imagine how excited I was with this intro. Out of the entire series, this is possibly my favorite intro as it finally puts the spotlight on my favorite story arc of this new season so far. Not only do we get to see Ilaria's pursuit on Alan, but we get some sneak peek imagery of the "Paris Incident" as shown in a few case files. The impactful moment in this intro however is the character who this mysterious Ilaria agent is speaking with. My intrigue to last night's episode heightened once it was revealed to be the "too cool and innocent to be a good guy" CDC member himself, Kyle Summers. Honestly, didn't see that coming seeing as we already have a double agent in our mix of scientists being Peter (I'll get to that later). Another thing that made this intro stick out to me was the constant cuts to seeing Kyle rescuing Sarah after she was stabbed. A brilliant way of showing sort of a two sided image of the character bringing up a new question for this season, "Can we really trust

Helix [S2] Ep. 4: "Densho" Review

The fourth episode of Helix has arrived and thank the Gods of television that the intro is at least decent enough to sort of wipe away the filth of last week episode's intro (I even got over the music choice quickly because of it's charm). Here we open with what seems to be a bee attack on one of the townspeople resulting in another horrific fungi sprouting death (now that's an intro worthy of being on day time television). In this episode, we're finally given something to go on with this specific outbreak as Kyle suspects that the bees are the ones carrying the virus. I guess you can say that the bees are this season's version of the Vectors of Season 1.

As our CDC buddies go investigating, we see Peter helping Alan recover from his hidden ambush attack. I was looking forward to this moment to finally get some answers on the Paris incident as well as some brother to brother confrontations (season 1 didn't have enough Peter/Alan moments for obvious reasons). Even though I didn't get that result quite as in depth as I wanted, it was still great to see Alan and the team together once more. We do get some of that confrontation that I mentioned between

Helix [S2] Ep. 3: "Scion" Review

-That intro was quite bold to say the least. Words cannot express how truly uncomfortable I was with that opening sequence. I've seen some off the wall things in many films as well as a few TV series, but this is something that ranked up on an entirely different level of unexpected things to see on TV. All I can say to that is "Not again! Please!"

-Alan's solo story is still my spotlighted character story on the show. I'm constantly engaged in seeing how he's going to figure things out on the island on his own. Very interested to see what will happen between him and Peter. Perhaps shed some more light on the Ilaria and Paris explosions. I'm really hoping on some more Paris flashbacks as well. I know it's asking for a lot as perhaps that storyline is so significant that the writers decided to spread it out throughout this entire season. For me personally, it's the biggest reason I was hyped for Season 2 in the first place. I created this epic Ilaria/Paris thriller in my head that I couldn't wait to see how they handled it just to find out that we're now on a cult conquering island. I'm slowly, but surely getting into this cult story, but my eyes are on the prize. A prize called "Ilaria immortals". By the way, I'm wondering how this whole pregnancy thing will work out between Alan and Sarah. Probably the worst place to have a baby don't you think?