Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Kai's cult started to collapse around him this week in "Winter of Our Discontent" - or did it?
He was either losing his grip on both his followers and reality or...everything's going according to his crazy plan. Given the nature of this season, it's hard to trust the genuiness of anything you're watching when you're watching it because there could be a scene a few minutes later, or a few episodes later, that just unravels it all. This element of Cult, the overuse of off-screen plotting, makes it hard to engage with and connect to.
Is Kai really making things up moment to moment now? Was his attempt to impregnate the Winter with a "messiah" a reflection of him going nuts with power or was it all a ruse to turn Winter against him? Could this be the reason he spared Beverly? Because he didn't really believe Winter's lie about Bev being the one who killed Colton Haynes' "totally not gay" nazi cop Jack Samuels but he wanted her to think he did? The end of last week's episode, when we saw Kai together with Bebe, fully suggested that everything going on with the marginalizing of the female followers was part of the bigger plan.
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Kai's cult started to collapse around him this week in "Winter of Our Discontent" - or did it?
He was either losing his grip on both his followers and reality or...everything's going according to his crazy plan. Given the nature of this season, it's hard to trust the genuiness of anything you're watching when you're watching it because there could be a scene a few minutes later, or a few episodes later, that just unravels it all. This element of Cult, the overuse of off-screen plotting, makes it hard to engage with and connect to.
Is Kai really making things up moment to moment now? Was his attempt to impregnate the Winter with a "messiah" a reflection of him going nuts with power or was it all a ruse to turn Winter against him? Could this be the reason he spared Beverly? Because he didn't really believe Winter's lie about Bev being the one who killed Colton Haynes' "totally not gay" nazi cop Jack Samuels but he wanted her to think he did? The end of last week's episode, when we saw Kai together with Bebe, fully suggested that everything going on with the marginalizing of the female followers was part of the bigger plan.
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