All’s well that ends… well?

August takes us back to the start with his narration at the top of the episode as all the loose ends are tied up – or are they?

The Donovan house seems ready to release its secrets, but anything that can spook August has got to be a ‘Very Bad Thing’, right? Wrong. The SurrealEstate trend for setting up then going against some of the old horror tropes strikes again as the house, embodied by your textbook creepy butler type, boasts about setting up the team to face their biggest regrets. This plan fails as three of the team instead experience peace and closure in their encounters. Coupled with another sad event (that was not actually that unexpected to me), it all feels very much like the main story is being concluded rather too definitively.

There’s a slight acceleration of some of the storylines, however positive for the characters, and while everyone likes a happy ending, this leads to a sense of finality. There is still room for SurrealEstate to be poignant, tug at the heartstrings and deliver a couple of twists I didn’t see coming – right at the eleventh hour. Nicely done.

There are a couple of plot points that leave the door cracked open an inch for further series to peek through, and I would hope that this isn’t the last we’ve seen of the misfit gang at the Roman Agency.

Verdict: Freedom in acceptance and closure for most of the Roman ‘family’. 8/10

Claire Smith