With Moonie’s location at last, Jentry reunites with her mother and discovers the truth.

It speaks to the versatility of the show that inside three episodes of Jentry being hugged by a possessed spider, we get an episode which is pretty much straight down the line character drama and it’s just as good as the monster punching.

This is a story about trauma, overcoming it and what happens when you can’t. It also gives Lucy Liu a chance to finally cut loose as Moonie, and she’s phenomenal. The episode cleverly, and kindly, wraps Jentry’s supernatural and emotional trauma together and shows us how they fed off each other as Moonie lives a parallel life to her daughter. To Jentry, Gugu is the woman who raised her. To Moonie, Gugu is the woman who killed her husband, stole her memories and maimed her child. Neither of them are wrong, but neither of them are right either. Gugu, a ghost trapped in between worlds is also a woman trapped between impossible choices and generations of her family. It’s incredibly well structured writing and it gives Liu, Ali Wong as Jentry and Lori Tan Chinn as Gugu a lot of emotional heavy lifting to do which they excel at.

It also means the return of the supernatural at the episode’s end has real weight and horror to it. Moonie being taken over by the Mogui, and it only being able to do that because of the power it took from Jentry is one more knot in this complex, horrific, elegant story of family trauma, culture clash and demons going viral on TikTok.

Verdict: A fantastic episode to lead into the finale. 10/10

Alasdair Stuart