It’s a nice day for it…

The house this week is referred to as a ‘lodge’, but I’d call it a small mansion. It’s beautiful, but of course something dark lurks within… is the entity tied to the property or the people in it?

The fact that the bride to be has had more than her fair share of suspicious ‘accidental’ near misses in the days leading up to her wedding seems to point to someone on the other side of the veil being none too pleased at her impending nuptials. However, this is another example of SurrealEstate leading you down a narrative path only for you to realise that it doesn’t lead where you think it did.  It’s always interesting when that happens, and this is a show that regularly seems to do that, even if it does sometimes have some convenient or obvious elements.

Susan is a lifelong friend of the family and this gives us more of a peek inside her youth and what happened at the awakening of her powers. The depiction of a deep friendship that has grown since childhood and still endures is another well drawn and lovely element.

Back with the main series arc, the ‘Donovan’ house that Megan has just vacated serves up the good horror trope of the episode: sinister house that no one (even if August is a double-hard bastard) should go into alone. Hardship is clearly ahead for our poetic tech nerd as the series nears its end on a strong episode.

Verdict: “The sweetest rewards only sing to us on the other side of hardship.” 9/10

Claire Smith