The structure of "slight continuation on a cliffhanger -> slow dialogue from 3 timelines -> new cliffhanger to be slightly elaborated on in the next one" continues.
The story sort of moves, but if you pay closer attention, you'll see that it doesn't. What we know for sure is that the man with a scar who was meeting the kinds in the woods (not even the kidnapper) has surfaced (at the book presentation) and that he might be connected to the absence of Amelia (was surprised to see the first Mr. X from the X-files). The pink castle exists and Julie was probably held there for some time. Her father, Tom, obviously didn't see Julie in there cause she was nowhere to be found and she was clearly out of the castle for quite some time, wandering with "the group". This suggests that Julie's mother knew more than she ever told anyone before she died. Harris James was obviously bribed to plant the evidence with a job opportunity in Hoyt Foods and Gerald Kindt is also in this somehow. The kidnapping itself is either a basic "rich men fetishes" story (I seriously doubt they would go for occult stuff again) or something more, but the latter will be hard to substantiate since the story didn't move at all and there are no enough facts and clues to make such an ending believable. O'Brien as well as Tom Purcell were both probably killed by Harris James. We are still 6 episodes in and the boy's death is still not explained even by a bit.
They have now two ways they can follow, either make up something completely random to surprise everyone who thought the story was as basic as it gets (and fail, because again, we had only those little portions of actual story spoon fed to us). Or go with something basic and grounded as the things I suggested above.
I sort of got used to the structure of the series, and now I just want it deliver a somewhat of an ending, but I'm afraid we will not be getting a real "villain" at all. I think the whole addition of the third (2015) timeline is necessary only so the ending can take place there, Hays remembering what happened and finally dying in peace or something like that, cause if you backtrack the aired episodes you can see that the whole 2015 timeline is there only to provide for character interactions and dialogue.
The next episode will surely focus on 2015 timeline, bringing Becca Hays into play since we've only had a glimpse of her up to date. It will end by slightly moving the cliffhanger we had in this episode while the rest of the resolution will happen in the last episode.
The story sort of moves, but if you pay closer attention, you'll see that it doesn't. What we know for sure is that the man with a scar who was meeting the kinds in the woods (not even the kidnapper) has surfaced (at the book presentation) and that he might be connected to the absence of Amelia (was surprised to see the first Mr. X from the X-files). The pink castle exists and Julie was probably held there for some time. Her father, Tom, obviously didn't see Julie in there cause she was nowhere to be found and she was clearly out of the castle for quite some time, wandering with "the group". This suggests that Julie's mother knew more than she ever told anyone before she died. Harris James was obviously bribed to plant the evidence with a job opportunity in Hoyt Foods and Gerald Kindt is also in this somehow. The kidnapping itself is either a basic "rich men fetishes" story (I seriously doubt they would go for occult stuff again) or something more, but the latter will be hard to substantiate since the story didn't move at all and there are no enough facts and clues to make such an ending believable. O'Brien as well as Tom Purcell were both probably killed by Harris James. We are still 6 episodes in and the boy's death is still not explained even by a bit.
They have now two ways they can follow, either make up something completely random to surprise everyone who thought the story was as basic as it gets (and fail, because again, we had only those little portions of actual story spoon fed to us). Or go with something basic and grounded as the things I suggested above.
I sort of got used to the structure of the series, and now I just want it deliver a somewhat of an ending, but I'm afraid we will not be getting a real "villain" at all. I think the whole addition of the third (2015) timeline is necessary only so the ending can take place there, Hays remembering what happened and finally dying in peace or something like that, cause if you backtrack the aired episodes you can see that the whole 2015 timeline is there only to provide for character interactions and dialogue.
The next episode will surely focus on 2015 timeline, bringing Becca Hays into play since we've only had a glimpse of her up to date. It will end by slightly moving the cliffhanger we had in this episode while the rest of the resolution will happen in the last episode.