If you have friends who ’ve been resisting hold out The Gates , this affect panorama from last night ’s episode may acquire them over . Vampires Dylan and Claire decide to “ come out ” to their daughter … but they get a surprise . Spoilers below .
This was the “ amount out ” installment of The Gates all around , although the episode took some really interesting detours on the way there . In a nutshell , Devon the evil witch get Nick and his family to be haunted by the spirit of the cleaning lady whose blood brother Nick killed , and whose death Nick helped cover up . And as a solution , Nick is impel to come clean to his wife Sarah at last , about the fact that they ’re living amongst vamipres and loup-garou . Meanwhile , Charlie keeps struggling with his hawt ex - girlfriend Andie ’s confession that she ’s a succubus , until Charlie ’s baby yield him a thrill in the head and tells him to act his age about it . And at long last , Dylan and Claire get an unwished-for sojourn from Emily ’s birth auntie — and Child & Family Services — about whether Emily ’s in a good , nurturing environment . And this pass to the “ come out ” scene you just watch above .
What I enjoy about this episode , in particular , is how much attention the show puts into the characters by this point — the the great unwashed who looked like ciphers in the first installment . In each of these subplots , there are little moments that make us buy into the fictional character and what they ’re dealing with .
Like the way Nick treat his haunting , on top of the spoilt pipe dream he was already having — he freaks out , just like anyone would , but by halfway through the sequence he ’s already taking steps to carry on with the place and being proactive , because that ’s who Nick is . He ’s not , as Lady Gaga would say , a paper gangster .
Or the way in which Charlie struggle with fact that he still has the hots for Succubus Girl , and then his annoying nosey kid sister gets in the middle of it . The dynamic here mat up real , and was a gracious change from the succubus - human - loup-garou - werewolf dearest quadrangle we ’d been getting used to in premature workweek .
And perhaps the bountiful surprise of the episode was the monitor that , yes , Dylan and Claire are actually really secure parent — they ’re not just rotten parents who are in erotic love with some fantasy of parenting . They really do care about Emily , and they do a good job of caring for her . or else of take crosscut that only show us that Dylan and Claire are dire to string up on to their adopted girl , the episode really show us moments of real affection and family closeness — for some rationality , I really wish the hotcake thing . And I was startled and touched that Dylan has already made up his intellect he require to renew his bond with Claire — a lot of shows would have drawn that out a bunch longer .
Anyway , as a study of “ number out ” and the dissimilar ways in which it can go , this episode was passably fun . As the clip above shows , Emily handles her parents ’ disclosure pretty well and we get a really sweet scene that somehow reminded me of the bit in The Wedding Banquet where the elderly relative already knows the chief character is gay . And Charlie come in around this week , probably because he realize it ’ll be awesome to watch his hawt girlfriend eat steak . But Sarah does n’t quite handle things as well as everyone else , and she insist they have to leave The Gates properly now — although when she realise that means no more addictive mind - control tea , she may switch her judgment .
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