Titled: “Sting of the Scorpion’s Tail”
Sunny finally goes back into the badlands this week in “Sting of the Scorpion’s Tail.”
Getting back into the badlands was Sunny’s main mission this year – which makes a lot of sense, given the show’s title and all. This episode is where he finally makes it in, but it comes at a price: serving as a clipper for Baron Chau, whose cogs kidnap him, Bajie, and M.K. This isn’t too bad story-wise because it continues the series’ latest trend of forcing its menagerie of characters to interact with each other to keep that plot thing moving. It’s a pretty decent plot so far, even if it has some focus issues, since it works fairly hard at keeping us on the edge of our seat with thrills lifted straight off of the assembly line. But now the show has surrendered itself to the power of “convenient coincidence” where situations converge because it saves time, speeds things up, and keeps the momentum going.
For an episode about Sunny’s return to the Barons’ territory, it sure does focus a lot on Veil and The Widow. The latter continues to take Into the Badlands by storm, by the way. Watching her take down Baron Hasan and the rest of her competition so easily is what makes her the “real” star of the show, and I’m glad we’ve been treated to action sequences featuring her and her army of butterflies aplenty. Sunny’s narrative arc collides with her own when he helps Chau set up the red menace using M.K. as bait. Because she had her eyes on him last season, remember? He was going to help her get to Azra. Or maybe he was just going all black-eyed and freak out on her. Something. Anyway, M.K. makes the perfect leverage to ensare the Widow into a trap that may or may not have been well designed.
But said ploy was merely a means to an end for Sunny, who really needed to figure out where his baby mama is being held. Running into the Widow (and eventually joining forces with her) not only helped him do that, it facilitated a clear pathway into the show’s big season finale conflict: Sunny vs. Quinn – a fight we’re dying to see….
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