It is spring, the time of rebirth. The rivers are flowing; the trees are budding. And all our usual suspects are experiencing a renaissance. Graham Green plays a medicine man who asks Joel if he can observe him to get a handle on conventional medicine. Joel stays in the past until something gives him an epiphany. Shelly sheds her skin. Maurice needs to clean house and start a new day, getting rid of the old things that have no sentimental value. But Maggie is the star of this one. One day, she is spinning her truck wheels in the soft spring earth, when a tall handsome man comes to her rescue. She begins to feel love and cast aside the past. What she later realizes is that there is something truly spiritual in the springtime. The world is being refreshed. It ends with Chris reading from Edna St. Vincent Millay.
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Maggie's Mythical Moment
ssharonfreeman7 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Don't want to ruin it if you haven't seen it, but this is a top five pick for me.
Maggie gets an fairytale reprieve from her 'cursed' romantic past and her constant frustration. One of the best twists in her arc.
Joel has a reversed reveal, reconnecting with part of his past he needed to appreciate the present more fully.
A new intermittently recurring character (Marylin's cousin, the healer) is introduced.
The rest of basically background but there are no missteps.
I could wish that another new character would return in future episodes, but this is not the first time I've felt strongly for a character we would not see again.
One of the best of the magical realism episodes.
Maggie gets an fairytale reprieve from her 'cursed' romantic past and her constant frustration. One of the best twists in her arc.
Joel has a reversed reveal, reconnecting with part of his past he needed to appreciate the present more fully.
A new intermittently recurring character (Marylin's cousin, the healer) is introduced.
The rest of basically background but there are no missteps.
I could wish that another new character would return in future episodes, but this is not the first time I've felt strongly for a character we would not see again.
One of the best of the magical realism episodes.
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