Tyrone and Tandy share a night discussing their respective experiences, then go forth and begin to properly explore their depths and limits, with some surprising results.

One thing I like about this show is it doesn’t flinch away from the harder aspects of its subject matter, and it certainly knows how to spring surprises on the viewer. Where it struggles a little is in how it frames its narrative occasionally, almost trying to be a little too clever for its own good.

This episode is a case in point. Picking up exactly where we left last time out, the conceit is that our two protagonists spent the night talking in the church, each relaying to the other what they had seen in their respective experiences viewing one another through their specific lenses, and talking about how/why this is happening and what they might be able to do to move forward.

However, the show keeps flitting from this night to snippets of what happened next to the pair of them – but it doesn’t necessarily make this terribly clear at first, leaving proceedings feeling (for me at least) a little disjointed for the first fifteen minutes or so.

However, once it’s bedded in, what we get is an instalment that really does dole out the shocks, revealing more about the respective abilities of the two, as well as about their individual lives. In the case of Tandy, this leads to a revelation neither she nor I could have seen coming, and some interesting switching of positions between her and her mother. In the case of Tyrone, it means finding out things about his heritage of which he had not been aware. In both cases, it provides strong character development, for Tandy making her perhaps a little less cynical, for Tyrone making him a little more.

All that said, the show really is still taking its time. It isn’t a story that is interested in being rushed, and four episodes in, we still have heroes who don’t yet fully understand what their powers are, let alone have any sort of structured idea what to do with them, and that means we have no real big bad for them to face either. Whether that hurts the show or not is down to individual viewer taste – for me, it’s treading a very similar path to Runaways, meaning that for now, I’m happy to give it a chance to develop.

Verdict: Still ploughing a careful furrow, the episode nevertheless manages to deliver more than one unexpected shock, and the two protagonists are interesting and well-realised enough for it to keep taking its time. That said, I really hope the action starts soon. 8/10

Greg D. Smith