Jentry, Ed and Gugu fight a monster that comes through the portal before they can close it. Ox-Head and Horse-Face, two spirits, emerge from the portal later and begin tracking Jentry down. She starts at Riverfork High School and meets the remarkably paranoid Vice Principal Wheeler. It’s not the best first day ever.

The second episode of this fantastic show goes even faster and takes even more swings than the first. From the opening revelation that Jentry will develop the ability to raise the dead to the closing fight, this episode crams big reveal on big reveal. It does so to overwhelm Jentry herself and succeeds, breaking its lead at the best time for the show and the worst time for her.

It also cleverly uses this structure to make overt the fundamental break in Jentry’s life. She’s a normal teenager with deeply abnormal powers and her shame at the accident she caused is a serious metaphor for the inevitable horrors of adolescence. By bringing this out into the open this early, the show clears the board and allows itself to do something very different. It does so with zero punches pulled too, and the closing fight with Ox-Head and Horse-Face is a great action scene made better by how closely it’s connected to the emotions she’s feeling.

It’s also a really funny, sweet, well observed episode. Sean Alan Krill is excellent as the Vice Principal as is Cristina Milizia as Stella, Jentry’s new friend and Michael’s girlfriend.

Verdict: Like us, none of them are expecting the events of the episode. Like us, they can’t wait to see what happens next. 9/10

Alasdair Stuart