Notes on - Evil: Exorcism part 2

 

Exorcism part 2 notes

Extreme close up of Leland

A, B, C

Oh, it’s the incel kid from a few episodes ago

Activating incident, belief, consequences. Then destruction. He’s really indoctrinating a killer

Andy doesn’t seem suspicious of David at all. He must have not seen anything

Andy came home early because he missed them and was worried about Laura’s heart

Is Andy going to break his promise and tell Kristen and Sheryl’s sex life?

Andy seems happy that he and Sheryl found a detante

Kristen: The Tibetan band can play tomorrow.

It’s odd how good a husband Andy is at this point

Kristen seems to really like her job. Oh right, she’s still stoned

She’s very carefully calling David her coworker

Kristen: Like a baby’s ass.

Andy: That’s what I like. Sexy talk

***Andy: You got more demanding,

Kristen: You don’t know the half of it.

Interesting that Kristen was never afraid at night until Andy came home.

Nice establishing of the ice pick hammer

The argument that all cats are her is very funny

A cat like that could not have made that roar

Lila (I think): All of our fish died! We need a cat now!

The cat was attached to David’s sweatshirt I think

David is being sued by someone.

Kristen is blocking David like a guilty secret

Which Exorcism was this one. I need to go back and check

Kristen is actually being really smart about what she and David can talk about right now. She’s genuinely good at her former job and is applying the skills

What is with the angry cat? And why is it just angry at Kristen

Bishop Marx. The late Peter Scolari. What happened to the Monsignor?

David’s drawn the attention of the Pope?

But not in a good way

Marx is clearly bothered by the bird.

David has a bird and Kristen has a cat. Interesting

Rene Harris. Is that an ex of David’s

Back to Leland after every commercial break. Nice structure. Sad that you can’t do that sort of thing with streaming

What is Leland coaching this kid to do.

‘As if’

Man Leland is a master manipulator.

I wish the torrent of incel killers were actually being caused by a single outside force and not just fundamentally the nature of our society.

Rene’s sister and David – a thing? She got both David and Rene to promise to be of use to the church on her deathbed

Julia

Rene: That’s Julia for ya. Always has to have the last word, even from the grave.

Julia was David’s ex and her dying led him to the priesthood. Ok

Rene recognizes that Kristen was smart about thing

Kristen: Hi, It’s just Kristen.

Renee: You have a doctorate, that deserves a Dr.

Renee understands the importance of aesthetics

Judith Lemonhead

Renee: Judith Lemonhead.

Kristen: Lemonhead?

Renee: I know. Stupid name. And she’s angry about it. Wants to take it out on the world.

OK, I really like Renee

Damn Renee is a good lawyer

Caroline Hopkins

OK, it was the exorcism in October 31

Good on Renee for insisting on lemonhead using Dr.

Judith: And did she tell you anything about me?

Kristen: (without hesitation) Yes, she told me that you hated your last name and wanted to take it out on the world.

Kristen is in a really delicate position

Being deposed in front of a group is very intimidating

Substance abuse and sex addiction. We knew about all that, right?

What can Kristen and Ben do?

It’s a nice touch that the gym worker opens by saying that she doesn’t want to assume the incel kids gender

So creepy the way the kid finger guns and only backs down after a big man appears

Why is Monsignor being written out?

Caroline is asking for 8 million dollars and for David to never be able to be ordained

I love the framing of Renee sitting on David’s bed. Just lovely

Why are Kristen and Andy sleeping facing opposite directions?

OK, Andy is just a little worried about Ben the Magnicifent. Good on him for admitting it and accepting Kristen’s reassurance on that point

Is Andy concerned about Kristen returning to Catholicism?

Something about the conversation with Andy made a penny drop for Kristen – and then commercial break for us to wonder. Man streaming has really changed structure

So now Leland is trying to get incel kid to oupgrade from finger gun to real gun and murder

Leland really is a good example of how therapy has a great possibility of abuse

Adam is one of 59 people Leland trust. So he’s one of the 60 and the implication is that Leland is also one. Which I think we kind of already knew.

 Adam is there to teach marksmanship

I hate that I know what a red pill moment means

Adam’s shoulder patch reads Hudson

Ah, Kristen has strong advice on treating psychiatry like religion

Hey there Kurt

You go renee!

Dr. Lynch Giles wrote an article expressly condemning the procedure that he put Caroline through. That seems like something they should have caught in advance.

I’ve never been to a shooting range

Adam: That’s how you get good at it. You kill people.

Leland is setting up the incel to be a mass shooter. And doing a really good job at it. Ah, and he’s aiming him at David’s ‘prayer group’

S.O.I. Slaughter of the Innocence.

Kristen is absolutely right that Caroline was better after the exorcism and worse after the Doctor

Ms. Lemonhead: So you really sold your soul?

Renee: Go to Hell, Lemonhead!

Andy left Kristen a gift

Andy’s offering to change places and let Kristen go climbing while he single parents. That’s sweet

Is this professional misconduct on Renee’s part? The case is over

Oh, so there really is a prayer group

Again, beautifully framed David on the bed while Renee sits on the opposite side from where David was in the reverse scene earlier

And the Incel accidentally shoots himself in the head before he can go spree killing.

Man, Leland is not happy about his work being wasted.

Googling Angry Incel Videos seems like a bad idea.