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The Exorcist (The Show) - Season Two, Eps 9 & 10

Okay. Whew, okay. Let’s go through this together. HOOOOOOOO okay no we’re gonna be okay, we’re.....wow GOD BLESS, okAY!

I mean just, The Exorcist show....god they did the dang thing. I mean you just have to gaze in awe.

OKAY, LET’S:

Season 2, Ep 9: Ritual & Repetition

this episode is sponsored by the wholesome Tom Hanks Mr. Rogers movie and I just feel like Hulu’s trying to take care of me with very gentle ad breaks

Marcus dragging Tomas out of the room as he repeats his name to himself with barely contained panic, over and over, “Tomas, Tomas,” like a prayer, like a rosary, like my heart in my chest. Ritual & Repetition!

I...workshopped this story all season...and they’re just...doing it out loud

yesss, this was very key to my most recent iteration of this, Tomas distantly hearing/feeling real Marcus’s voice trying to reach him while he’s looking at a false Marcus. god, that one of the only things that could keep Tomas from Marcus is, of course, something that looks like Marcus.. a perfect trap! ha ha, I feel pain

Marcus desperately praying over him with his hand pressed to Tomas’s chest was aaaalways part of it

annnd Shade Marcus getting suspicious and this edge of threat creeping in to his form was ALSO SOMETHING I DEEPLY CONSIDERED

Shade Marcus advancing on Tomas: “You’re not going anywhere.” one version just stays in this mode for a distressing amount of time. because Tomas getting menaced inside his head by a demon that looks like his partner is an evergreen end-of-the-season move, great legs on that one.

!!!! oh but I didn’t think to do THIS!! Tomas wrenching open the door to escape, only to reveal a room from somewhere else, like in that one episode in the good season of Legion aka one of my favorite sorts of thing!!!!!! ALL MY FAVES HAVE SPOOKY BEAUTIFUL MINDSCAPE LABYRINTHS I JUST AM WHAT I BE

your outfit is so fancy now, have you been dream-promoted?

he’s a Bishop!!

Tara!!!

aww, of course Father Tomas Ortega would miss having a congregation, well-played Satan

o-KAY now we’re COOKING, the ferry line “Nachburn” Island is supposedly on includes Bainbridge and, ding ding ding, Vashon! so yeah this is supposed to be way south, not up near Orcas and my family home. I mean in real life I’m absolutely certain they shot in British Columbia with the Vancouver tax breaks, but this whole area looks like this so that not remotely a problem

so who the hell are these guys

Friars of Ascension?

well they are no longer, Mouse got ‘em

sigh, no I can accept Marcus leaving catatonic Tomas to try to find Andy before the demon hurts the kids, because we want to see what happens to Tomas in here and can’t take Marcus out of the action for the whole time that’s happening. and also it’s for sure what Tomas would want him to do.

I wonder where Demandy would have taken them anyway. the Witch House maybe?

y’know I made that Howard Shore reference last time and now Marcus is reading the signs of what happened in here last night just like Strider tracking Merry and Pippin in The Two Towers. I’m chuckling

oh man. who’s gonna get…..pitchforked. grimace.

Shelby why are there NO boats in your marina

yeah I just parked facing straight down the boat ramp—get in! :)

once again, the temptations this demon rolls out only reveal how cutely provincial---lol literally in Tomas’s case---its targets’ fantasies are. its latest Tomas Trap™ is “getting to conduct a mass back in Chicago.” god all of Tomas’s fantasies are just like, doing his job. u nerd.

Casey!!! oh this is very intriguing. did the demon fuck up and thought seeing her would bring verisimilitude to the dream, instead of retriggering his feeling that something is wrong? oooo or is Casey the form his OWN mental defenses are taking, to help him fight this? I’d pick that one, ohohoho yes

Witch House, nailed it

“What do you think, Harper?” “I think you killed my mom.” oh my god, biscuit :(

“You can be mad all you want. But if you think about it, God killed your mom.” listen we must say this about Demon Andy: he’s got a delivery and a way with words that is never dull!

Caleb reaching over and taking her hand, oh the solidarity with these kids!

Shelby: “I’m not going to let him hurt you.” Harper: “Shelby!” Shelby: “Don’t watch.” a little Marcus in training :(

my babies! I love Harper’s face a lot because this almost comical sad grimace is also me watching this show!

sidebar but this series nearly always takes place in autumn and it’s right and good

oh poor Caleb, can only hear them screaming!

—I was really not prepared for Marcus walking through the spiderwebbed woods and almost getting run over by a horse. to be fair, neither was Marcus.

ohhh, all the animals running away, past him

to be perfectly honest, Demandy whispering to Caleb “I got you, I got you” as he carefully carries inside, then just dumping him on the ground, made me laugh

Shelby: “V! Rose! Oh thank God.” Demandy: “God?” Demandy: [kicks Shelby over] this demon has gotta stop being so funny, I have got to stop laughing at this oh no

oh it’s Tomas’s cute little nephew hiii!!

Casey, Casey, please tell me you’re here to help, that would be so cool

I forgot how beautiful she was. y’know since she spent so much of last season looking like a demonic nightmare

ah, no, this Casey is an enemy

ooo it’s interesting watching the demon’s tactics not quite work. her face sorta falters, and then she tries a new track.

“You’re not Casey Rance. And none of this is real.” good job Father!

eurgh, gruesome, Shelby’s broken ankle…

I like when the demons get all mad about God because it’s reminder that it’s all just this like, petty grudge gone WILDLY out of control

it’s a good thing the Island Demon is a such a drama queen, it’s buying Marcus a lot of time to get over here. hope he rides up on the horse.

Rose :(

the Kim kids had a bit of a coordinated effort there and I’m impressed! run Verity run!! maybe you’ll collide with Marcus in the woods like aahh and he’ll be like “eeasy, I got you---where are they?”

Demon your arguments to Tomas are such a mess, none of this logically holds together. that’s one thing we don’t talk enough about: the Devil’s Advocate does not make strong points.

oh they went with the other option for the Marcus reveal: the footsteps at the door to the Witch House are OUR GUY

oooooo, clever clever girl, walking backwards over your own footprints! damn now that’s a survivor

this is nice, Caleb will be Shelby’s leg and Shelby will be Caleb’s eyes

yeessss Rose is still alive!!

Rose: “You gotta get out of here please run, run, don’t worry about me please!” Caleb: “Yeah that’s not happening.” <3

aah glasses, the little boy! oh my god if there’s a drownedy ghost in here….

oh worse, a fucking snake

Demon Casey just called him Tomasito and I horked

“Maybe. Maybe I wanted that a long time ago, when I was a very different man. Do you really want to know what I want?” yeah. yeah I do. “I want to watch you die, you son of a bitch.” Tomasito!

bahahaha

aw, aw, family, you guys are cute. now get OUTTA here!

Marcus just body-slammed Demandy in midair, if you were wondering after that horse moment if this episode was just going to keep really going for it

...I think I have this holy water jam jar. that design on the lid, the bevelled….hold on

well what do you know

ugh I’m really not liking dead-looking Nicole, this gal is freaking me out

c’moonnn Tomas, we need you

Tomas: [bangs open the bathroom door; Full Demon Casey is standing there] me: “oH jesus christ you’re still in the fucking dream”

yes yell it away Tomas!

well Denikki just up and bit Tomas on the shoulder like a vampire, and I can’t say I saw that one coming. honestly why is Tomas always getting bit anyway... oh, hah well that’s an easy joke: he’s a snack

yes, yes, yes, I wanted this too: Tomas starts fighting ~The Presence~ from within his weird in-two-worlds-at-once position, and it has a noticeable impact here in the waking world

oh Andy! real Andy! of course, he’d be here in the liminal space the same way real Cindy was at the start of this season

Mouse??

she did it she woke him up! “I’ve come a long way to find you.” imagine waking up from like 24 hours in Demonland and hearing that first thing.

Season 2, Episode 10: Unworthy

oh no, visions of his sister: Bennett is definitely dying.

these jerkfaces have gotta stop trying to en-demon Father Bennett, I’m gettin’ annoyed. can I suggest a book to you all, entitled He’s Just Not That Into You?

Marcus has spent so much time in the last day dragging unconscious men around

finally, bring my boys back together

I appreciate the gradations of guilt across Tomas’s face here—guilt over getting took, transitioning into guilt that he hasn’t come alone, and seemingly knew that upon seeing Mouse Marcus was gonna be like !!!! oh god

Tomas, hilariously: “Are you gonna talk to her? Or just keep brooding?”

Mouse: “I left [Bennett] in a hospital outside of Spokane. He was injured by your friend, Maria Walters.” Marcus, concerned: “Is he alright?” Tomas: wait---

ohhh, their warning message was about how the Church was compromised and the exorcists are being hunted down, I remember now. yeah that kinda got lost in the shuffle for me what with all the other dangers.

Mouse: “I was in hell, Marcus, for six months!” Tomas: [~*swivel*~]

seriously Alfonso Herrera is just reaction imaging real hard in this scene and I’m loving it. this is so funny. like imagine you’re Mouse, and you’re having this weird reunion with Marcus who is really uncomfortable and upset that you’re here, and meanwhile his new partner is just bopping around openly listening to you like “what! ohh! hey wow” while he ties up a dude to an indoor tree

Marcus: “I fought to save you, day and night, everything I had, everything inside me—it wasn’t enough. *I* wasn’t enough. You needed help that I wasn’t fit to give.” ohhhhh. it’s A Metaphor. and suddenly there we go I’m fine with the Mouse/Marcus plot, it was that easy!

LIT ERALLY Tomas: “We have no time for this.”

annnnd literally Demandy, this show’s funniest demon:

whose boat are you even on kiddos, where are you going, it’s going to take you SO LONG

oh you shouldn’t be out on the water with another uncharacteristic northwest thunderstorm rolling over

Verity: “Is there like some, stupid Bible verse we can say or something?” Shelby: “…You mean like a prayer?” them

Marcus’s Tomas Soft-Focus extends to also being able to swiftly protect him from getting beaned by an old timey stove flying across the Witch Room

well good thing there’s three of you to fight this very strong demon then huh!

oh yeah kinda forgot Mouse’s “fuck it, just kill them” attitude. compLETEly at odds with Marcus Keane, if we recall that one episode with the nuns and the belladonna.

“Tell me I’m wrong,” Mouse challenges, and lord you can visibly SEE Tomas fighting against just going like “Okay—”

Marcus: “We’re exorcists.” Me: “not executioners?” Marcus: “Not executioners.” Me: “there we go.”

Demandy just went “That’s what makes it all so taasssty” and I FUCKING LOST IT

I’m really really grateful for whatever mood Alfonso Herrera was in when they were filming this, his reaction to everything is a delight. it’s like he’s our audience representation in the room and I’m living for it.

Marcus telling the demon it’s the first one who actually got one of his neuroses right is a fun neat moment, because the demon is happy and flattered but this also kinda diminishes its power in an odd way, because Marcus just cavalierly admits it but isn’t acting on it

OH oh, oh is this gonna be it, is this when Tomas proposes he go in there, help Andy and try to make the demon easier for them to kill? just like I keep predicting? yes yes?

oh my god it was possibly even better I imagined: Tomas: “There is another way. We offer something it wants even more. Bait.” Marcus, springing the fuck to attention and coming over real close: “Absolutely not.”

of course he’s going all self-sacrificing on you, he’s a priest. this is one of the reasons I love priest characters so much!

oh Marcus is just panicking at the thought of the darkness eating Tomas’s soul, and can we blame him

Tomas: “It’s my fault. … I need to make things right.” Marcus, desperate: “What by throwing your life away?” Tomas: “My life belongs to God.”

I cannae handle it Captain!

Marcus: [nods, trembling and fierce]

*GIANT SWELL OF AN ECCLESIASTICAL CHORUS* *IT’S ME SINGING WHILE MY HEART FUCKING BELLY-FLOPS INTO THE SEA*

the……entire promise of this show, just….given to us, here in the last episode. this is why we did all of this, it was always for This. ever for this. for Tomas to take a breath and walk open-eyed into Hell, and Marcus behind him wrapping a rosary around his hand, getting ready to fistfight the Devil to get him back. and you very much might lose him, and it’s TRUST and DANGER and ohh I am just calling out into my arms, just wordless pained joy! WHAT a special, special series. what a treasure I will hold always. the sad hot priests show that knew what it was ABOUT son. IT’S THIS, IT’S ALL ABOUT THIS.

in the first episode of the series Father Marcus looked at the young priest standing in front of him, led to him by strange visions, and said sadly: “They’re gonna love you.” and in the final episode of the series, he holds himself back as Father Tomas walk up to the monsters and says: “You want me? Come and get me.” as the monsters were always going to. and he’ll do everything he can to drive them back from him, like he was always going to.

I mean this is a PROGRAMME

(there is one other step though I would have liked and also would have been smart: Marcus tying Tomas up before he basically just asks to be possessed. testing the ropes to make sure they’re secure and then faltering because it’s Tomas’s wrist he’s tying down, and Tomas just smiling reassuringly as he winces a little, going “It’s okay; I don’t want to hurt you.” oh god and then we can---nope, nope not the time)

oh the dark light in here is real good

oh the dark light in here is REAL good

wait hold on, why I am a watching this SOBER? hang on, drink necessary

okay I made my emotionally reckless Babylon Berlin drink from last winter: a whisky toddy with half a shot of absinthe

I decided to drink half of this before I start playing this again so that the wormwood can hit my system and a) it has, b) I’m beginning to comprehend the possession potential of a demon having access to Tomas’s entire mountain of feelings about Marcus to work with in tormenting them both and ho boy

I cannot BELIEVE the first thing the Devil provided Tomas, literally on a fucking pedestal, was a flashlight with which to poke around, knowing that I hate that. maybe the most! maybe the most I hate this. this feels personal!

oh some dark shape has already run by, excellent! drinking heavier!

great. freaky paintings.

Tomas your mind is *literally* a haunted house

I was full-on just looking at the rose hips on my coffee table and keeping only the corner of my eye on the screen but luckily, did manage to look back to catch John Cho just fucking obliterate a creepin’ shadow figure with a baseball bat in glorious slow motion.

really unexpected Hero Shot and I’ll take it!

Tomas, amazed: “Andy!” Andy, badass: “We have to hurry. It won’t be gone long---it never is.”

y’know Andy, you might find a priest knows a lot about forgiveness

this internal confession scene…aw, aww

Mouse, pacing: “You could have stopped him.” Marcus, sitting cross-legged on the ground, keeping his eyes locked on Tomas: “You don’t know my partner.” ha ha I’m a mess

Andy and Tomas: sneak out into the hall Hulu.com: would like to know your location Me: “fuck you Satan!”

ohhh ahaha, I just recognized the energy of how I’m enjoying this dark mold-dripped set of the house that a newly badass character is stepping through with a baseball bat: it’s Steve in the Upside Down

and I mean, John Cho sure has the amazing hair. I appreciate that they let him keep it throughout, like “so you’re gonna look pretty rough, but your hair’s still gonna be banging”

does fear run on the same channels as pain? this thought brought to you by starting my second toddy and wondering. I find I am more relaxed about alarming things now, and of course just more sloppily fond of everyone. this is ideal.

something I’ve always found very sweet is when non-religious folks call religious leaders by their titles. it’s so respectful and nice, the same way you might call someone “Doctor.”

of course the demon would take Tomas by forcibly making out with him, that is the essence of their thing: assaulty. invasive and bad. I feel cold and nauseous, nooo Tomas, god---

ohhhh, Andy. a beautiful man, a true dad, throwing himself in front of the whole damn world to protect his kids, and anyone else’s kids. back to himself, looking Marcus right in the eyes, the gun in his hand: “Do it.” a father saving a Father, oh it’s so lovely :((

god and Marcus is going to be in agony—he loves Tomas so much that he did something that he’ll absolutely think will move him beyond the range of God’s love. this is the perfect torture for Marcus and also for me to watchhh!

wait….the body in the tub was Mrs. Graham, it was real it was there?? wowww this show did a great job making me think it was just a one of Tomas’s spooky waking hallucinations!

good, good, I’m so glad Rose is coming out of this looking like a baller to the authorities. that’s what Andy would have wanted too

Suit: “Those kids are alive because of you.” Rose, knowing it’s the other way around: “When can I see them.”

ohhhh this is my kind of thing, a priest delivering someone’s messages to others, even the romantical ones—I am just a conduit for Love, the Priest Story. god, into it into it.

Andy, to Tomas, to Harper: “And even though you weren’t in my house for long, you’ll always be my daughter.” I’m genuinely tearing up. found families, foster families, are just as strong as biological families, that is the message of this season and I’m??

Verity..! oh I’m crying, this was so sweet and tenderly done

ahhh, Tomas trying to forgive Marcus so hard, and Marcus resisting!

Tomas, kind of shocked at himself: “I would have done it.” Marcus, in so much pain: “But you would have been lost.” Tomas: “It was a sacrifice I was willing to make.” Marcus, quickly: “I wasn’t.”

AAA-AA-AAHHHHHH?? Aaaaahhhhhhh! desperately pulling himself away from you because he’s so scared that he loves you too hard..!! OH MY GOD

Tomas, pleading: “Marcus, Marcus—I don’t know how to do this without you.” I’m…falling apart

Marcus holding out his hand to him, hurting and jumpy, “Until the next time”, and Tomas just looking down at it, bewildered, how can this be what you’re doing?

Tomas just pulled him into a long hug and whispered “Adios, hermano,” not knowing that’s what Marcus had quietly, wishfully said to his retreating steps in that bar in Chicago and I’m !!!!

“For now,” Marcus, shaking, turning to walk out the door, I !!!

oh you’re just gonna push me deeper, telling Mouse not to let Tomas drive, little things to take care of him...

Tomas standing there so forsaken, I can’t!!

well Season 3 writes itself at this point, but I’ll let you know if it holds after the final act

okay, that commercial break included a Hot Pockets ad and I’m here to tell you that idk, 14 years later they’re still using that “Hot Pockets!” two note jingle, and for a moment I truly felt like I had come loose from reality. I’ve had two toddies. anyway.

I fucking, can’t, I tried to make it more than thirty seconds into this but Tomas was distressedly taking off his collar and rubbing his hands over his wet eyes and apologizing to Mouse, and saying “He does this sort of thing. He’ll come back,” (heartbreak heartbreak) and Mouse said gently “I don’t think so,” and Tomas, Tomas he sat down like his strings had been cut, his hand stretching out on the dresser for support !

ohhh, nooo but she wanted to turn him into a bomb, compared to Marcus’s scalpel….. oh Season 3 writes itself!!

noooo Bennetttttt. booooo, dislike. unless Demennett is also hilariously dry in which case I could at least still appreciate that aspect. but nooo.

why are wide shots nerve-wracking

well that was at least very stylish and visual! Demennett where the FUCK did you get those outrageously oversized shears?!

three months later is a whole half the time Marcus and Tomas spent on the road together, bold

Truck to the orderly, seeing Rose: “Am I allowed to hug her?” Rose: “Yes.”

Rose: “You have to promise me something. This is a brand new foster parent, never done it before. So you’re gonna have to be patient with her, okay?” this…is so so lovely

oh my god it’s Roooooose, ahh i’m crying, this is so sweet god

<333

aaaAAAAH and all the other kids are there!!! MY BABIES. oh god I seriously cry

camera: [panning over this waterfront] me, quietly: “(that’s Vancouver)”

Marcus on a boat? Boat Marcus?

Marcus in a scarf

God???

Marcus, trembling: “Yes. I can hear you. I’m listening.”

fucking No Effing Way, nooOOOOO???:D:D!!!!! I’M SO HAPPY, no, fuck!!!!!

AAYIYIYII’LL BE WORKING MY WAY BACK TO YOOUU BAABE, WITH A BUR-NING LOVE INSI-IDE

OH THIS IS PERFECT WHAT

WHAT GOD you REALLY really did this!!!!?? you ended it this way!!!!!! BIG, GLORIOUS cancelled series energy, a final gift/the ultimate prompt: To Our Audience, you the real ones—go wild you emotionally horny diamonds. Love ya.

I mean, the ~poetic cinema~ in this…because now it would be Marcus trying to find Tomas. God putting Marcus in Tomas’s head in the first season, bringing them together, and now God putting Tomas in Marcus’s head---in terrible trouble, aah Marcus’s broken-open voice---now go bring him back, like you promised.

oh god I feel Incandescent

thank you forever, hot sad priests show

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Previously Season One Part 1, Part 2 Season Two Eps 1 & 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6, 7 & 8

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