Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
"Lullaby" began with a literal bang, as Cassie shockingly shot Jones as she held her just-dead daughter's hand and, once we learned Cassie was caught in a time loop, things only got even better. Jen herself referenced Groundhog Day (and of course Cole didn't get it), and like that movie, the fun repeated-day story had serious elements as well, as Cole and Cassie wrestled with what outcome would finally free them, killing and dying throughout the hour.
The repeated-day scenario has been done well on several shows, and "Lullaby" would make a great addition to a themed binge-night along with Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Cause and Effect" (which actually predates Groundhog Day by about a year), The X-Files' Season 6 standout "Monday" and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's "Life Serial", which references the previous two shows. Buffy's time loop is caused by (what else) a curse, and the crew of the Enterprise basically flies into a temporal phenomenon. And in that story, no one is consciously aware they are repeating a day. "Lullaby" best pairs with the X-Files episode, as the writers deal more with the philosophical questions raised in "Lullaby": do we have any say in what happens to us, or are we fated (or doomed, even) to play out a script that's already been written?
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"Lullaby" began with a literal bang, as Cassie shockingly shot Jones as she held her just-dead daughter's hand and, once we learned Cassie was caught in a time loop, things only got even better. Jen herself referenced Groundhog Day (and of course Cole didn't get it), and like that movie, the fun repeated-day story had serious elements as well, as Cole and Cassie wrestled with what outcome would finally free them, killing and dying throughout the hour.
The repeated-day scenario has been done well on several shows, and "Lullaby" would make a great addition to a themed binge-night along with Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Cause and Effect" (which actually predates Groundhog Day by about a year), The X-Files' Season 6 standout "Monday" and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's "Life Serial", which references the previous two shows. Buffy's time loop is caused by (what else) a curse, and the crew of the Enterprise basically flies into a temporal phenomenon. And in that story, no one is consciously aware they are repeating a day. "Lullaby" best pairs with the X-Files episode, as the writers deal more with the philosophical questions raised in "Lullaby": do we have any say in what happens to us, or are we fated (or doomed, even) to play out a script that's already been written?
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