Mary Sibley shares an oral tradition of magic.
Here is our review of Salem season 2 episode 4.
Salem, season 2 episode 4, Book of Shadows gets down with some tantric magic tonight.
This was one sexy episode.
The soap in this operatic horror show was frothy.
It even opened in a bathtub.
Like an aftertaste, the first witchs effects are strong, subtle and distracting.
Tituba (Ashley Madekwe) wants Mary to nip her problems in the bud.
But, like the stubborn weeds that blind witches to witch-hunters, they refuse to stop growing.
No, not Brooklyn, Europe.
Hales powers are growing but still controllable, as long as her urges are out of control.
Mary doesnt nip Annes bud as much as nibble at it, but she establishes rapport and dominance.
Tituba takes the eyes of the seer with a knife.
She doesnt pluck them out or pry them out, she spears them and pulls them out.
Then, to add to the gory visual delight she eats them.
Hakuna matada, slimy but satisfying.
I wonder if eyes taste sweet or salty, I promise you I will never find out.
Usually, surgical masks are fine for recuperative units, but not in Salem.
The village ambulatory corpse doctors arent content to be merely quacks, they advertise it by wearing duck masks.
Luckily, Captain John Alden can see through all that.
He didnt learn the ways of the Native Americans to pay for a house call from a witch doctor.
She surrenders immediately into the suggestions the elder witch rubs into her psyche.
A degree in theology, I ask you, what could be more useless than that?
This is a British cinema cliche that goes all the way back to Richard Lesters comic Beatles adventureHelp.
There the scientist, played by a very committed Victor Spinetti, decries his assistants degree in woodwork.
Imagine what hed say to a magical working.
Cotton has some severe daddy issues.
I like the roots growing out of Aldens body, hiding him in the woodwork.
Shane West, who plays Captain John Alden, is channeling his totem animal.
Leech face and lava lady finally meet.
She is burning everyone around her now with her eyes.
Her character wants no one to look at her but really, shed prefer they not look away.
Isaac is such a sweet thing, sticking up for Mary and putting the acolyte ahead of himself.
I couldnt wait to see him flayed.
The ingenious Mary gave Hathorne just enough rope to hang himself and hes not that well-hung.
At least she could respect that, if only he had the imagination to take out his competition.
Hathorne is a useless piece of shit, though, isnt he?
A thorn in the side with no real redeeming qualities.
Or Frank Burns onMAS*H, he was written to be hated.
But it could have been the yearning strings ofMary Hartman Mary Hartmanmusic.
The magic in this episode was of the telekinetic and ritual variety.
Anne Hales incantation and sacrifice in the well was sufficiently sad and creepy.
No one should see the plumbing.
What a great pickup line for oral sex: how would you approach a queen?
Dr. Wainwright (Stuart Townsend) gets on his knees for the sake of science.
There are some who say magicians, or at least alchemists, were among the first real scientists.
They knew that magical energy flows from the source of all things.
Tantra and sex magic both recognize cunnilingus and fellatio as meditative yogic positions.
Zeena Schreckmay be the considered a contemporary counterpart to Anne Hale.
The daughter of a famous magical name, Anton LaVey, she led three notorious modern occult orders.
This fluid, called amrita, or elixir of immortality is sometimes believed to be vitalized with magical properties.
Mary also says there is no magic without blood.
A doctor is an angel of mercy.
But watch out Mary, psychiatry and cunnilingus took downThe Sopranos.
The Book of Secrets was written by Brannon Braga.
Rating:
4.5 out of 5
