Crying wolf can be harmful to your health

We shift to sunny San Francisco for this latest episode of the Apple TV+ series, which is about a hypochondriac with dependency issues… or is it?

There are two main threads between our three players for this episode – Katherine, Layla, and Craig – which echo the basic framework of the first instalment, and once again there is more going on than meets the eye. Layla is over-reliant on her disbelieving sister Katherine’s medical advice while Katherine is trying to save her marriage to Craig.

If the first three episodes laid out the main supernatural occurrences that are happening across America, this one starts to weave these threads together – only a couple of thin strands so far but it’s beginning. A comment made during the first episode seems to have befallen one of this episode’s protagonists, so we get our first clue as to the modus operandi of whoever or whatever is attacking people. There’s a clear progression in the narrative structure and by this point I’m fully on board the ‘WTF is going on, I really need to know’ train.

The main sucker punch is again interpersonal and kudos to the writers for this one, I didn’t see it coming. Breadcrumbs are dropped, both audio and visual (those clever graphics again) but it still shocked me to the extent I audibly gasped as the world inside and outside the heads of our Frisco friends comes crashing down.

Verdict: Horrifying details start to emerge about the sinister events our various characters are experiencing. 8/10

Claire Smith