Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Answers, glorious answers. That was the theme when Wayward Pines hit the halfway point in its 10 episode order on Thursday night, and they couldn't have come soon enough. After weeks of following Ethan Burke and his quest to figure out the strange town, he finally scaled the wall and made it over to the other side. There, we finally got our first real look at these "unknowns" and at what the town of Boise looks like in an apocalyptic world, all the while getting a history lesson of sorts back at the school alongside Ben.
Splitting up the family allowed us to experience three different points of view, piecing together new bits of information as the episode progressed. With Ethan, we saw these hunters up close; with Theresa we got a little more intel about the process of bringing someone over to Wayward Pines; and with Ben we learned a number of truth bombs. Little nuggets like the fact that the year is now 4028, that the rest of the planet has been decimated by evolution, and that those unknown killer carnivore peeps are actually called aberrations. It was a lot to take in with one episode, but it flowed quite well thanks to the contrasting perspectives, which were woven together in accordance with Ms. Fisher's presentation about the "first generation."
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Answers, glorious answers. That was the theme when Wayward Pines hit the halfway point in its 10 episode order on Thursday night, and they couldn't have come soon enough. After weeks of following Ethan Burke and his quest to figure out the strange town, he finally scaled the wall and made it over to the other side. There, we finally got our first real look at these "unknowns" and at what the town of Boise looks like in an apocalyptic world, all the while getting a history lesson of sorts back at the school alongside Ben.
Splitting up the family allowed us to experience three different points of view, piecing together new bits of information as the episode progressed. With Ethan, we saw these hunters up close; with Theresa we got a little more intel about the process of bringing someone over to Wayward Pines; and with Ben we learned a number of truth bombs. Little nuggets like the fact that the year is now 4028, that the rest of the planet has been decimated by evolution, and that those unknown killer carnivore peeps are actually called aberrations. It was a lot to take in with one episode, but it flowed quite well thanks to the contrasting perspectives, which were woven together in accordance with Ms. Fisher's presentation about the "first generation."
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