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Haven Season Finale – Spiral

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Season finale time!  (WARNING: There will be some spoilers)

We start off where we left off last week with Audrey walking down by the water where The Colorado Kid incident occurred. Last week we discovered that Audrey shares the same scar on the bottom of her foot that Lucy (the one she assumed was her mother) had. While she is talking to herself about the craziness of her life, a random man, Max, shows up with a bag from Shawshank Prison. He returned to Haven after being in prison for 25 years and already appears slightly…off. As Max moves around town we see him encounter all the regulars from this season. They all essentially tell him to get the hell out of town. We find out that he was in prison for some killing a family in Haven back around the time of the Colorado Kid incident. He is also suspected of killing the Colorado Kid but that was never proven. He is clearly being established as the next “big bad.” After a particularly nasty conversation with Chief Wuornos, the camera pans to the lighthouse on the cove behind where Max is sitting and we watch as the lighthouse collapses.

It is revealed that the lighthouse collapsed due to the cracks that have been showing up around Haven since Parker arrived in town. Audrey is still clearly frazzled from realizing that she is Lucy and so Nathan sends her home from work. Meanwhile, while confronting Duke on Duke’s boat, Max takes off his shirt.  We see that Max has a tattoo on his inner forearm that is suppose to be on the man who is going to ultimately kill Duke. This sufficiently freaks Duke out and he runs off to find Audrey (with no real luck). Audrey finds out about the tattoo and confronts Max.

Have I mentioned how much I love Emily Rose in this show? She kicks ass.

Anyway, while meeting with Max a waitress accidentally spills hot coffee on Max. He doesn’t flinch. Audrey puts two and two together and realizes that Max must be related to Nate (who also cannot feel pain/touch/etc). Max visits Nathan and confirms this for himself. After Audrey tells him about this incident, Nathan confronts his dad, Chief Wuornos. Chief Wuornos reveals what we have all figured out, which is that Max is Nathan’s real father.

At this point, it seems fairly obvious that nothing good will come from Max. Until, of course, Max falls into the ground via an extremely large crack that forms as Max is walking/running down the street.

Let me pause again to say that this is why I love this show. It sets something up that seems to be the use of just another TV trope and then crushes it. The entire rest of the episode I was convinced Max would show up again and suddenly be alive due to some special trouble/power that he has.  He never does. This all happens about halfway through the episode, thus leaving me to wonder…how much more awesomeness is going to go down?

Well I don’t want to ruin ALL the surprises so I’m going to wrap this up. The rest of the episode involves Nathan and Audrey trying to figure out who killed Max/is responsible for creating the cracks around town (since, you know, weird things happen in Haven).  At first Nathan thinks Duke did it, but, of course, not-so-much. By the end of the episode we find out who is responsible for the cracks, Audrey tells Nathan that she is Lucy, and Duke finds out that there are thousands of people out there that have that tattoo, many dead but also, most likely, many still alive. We don’t know what these people have in common but there is a cemetery full of gravestones with that tattoo on them so it is safe to say that there is going to be a nice long mystery there next season. Oh, and Nathan tells Audrey that he can feel her touch (pretty much the only person he can feel).

Yea, there are cheesy moments. The music at times feels overly melodramatic and there is one moment in particular that came off as a little forced.  However, so much happens that is well done that I let those not AS awesome moments slide.  Really, this is probably one of the best season finales I have seen this year, right up there with the Justified finale.

First of all, it is beautifully paced. All three characters have their own stuff going on but they intersect nicely throughout the episode without feeling rushed. The connections just all makes sense and work well together. Also, almost nothing happens that involves the “maybe/sorta love triangle.” Everything that occurs in the episode is relevant to the mysteries of the town that we’ve been examining all season. Granted, there are a couple of small semi-romantic moments involving Audrey/Duke and Audrey/Nathan but overall it’s just plot-driven momentum. Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, and Eric Balfour give brilliantly well-acted, nuanced performances. They embody these characters. Eric Balfour does such a great job that I am able to forget that he played that asshole on Six Feet Under. I’ve not seen Emily Rose in anything before but she continues to rock my world on this show, and Lucas Bryant successfully pulls off the “doesn’t feel anything” and angsty “you lied to me all these years” bit without any level of cheesiness (which I imagine is not easy).

Since this is a Syfy original series, the first season is only 13 episodes and a lot of them are still on Hulu or On Demand. The show is episodic enough throughout most of the season that you can pick up with later episodes and still kind of figure out what is going on.  This is particularly nice because the show did start off kind of slow but by mid-season it is full on addictive. Syfy picked it up for a second season (woo!) and I can’t wait to see it back next summer. Oh, also, this has made me hard-core want to read more Stephen King. I already procured the audio book of The Colorado Kid! That will cover 1.5 trips to and from work for me! Yay!


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