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What a horrific back half of the season this show has had.

Impressions:

The main takeaway here for me is that if you have a decent first episode or two, and then a decent sixth episode, you can probably string me along to at least 10 or so episodes. But this horrific non-ending is definitely where I'm putting a pin in it and calling it quits. If you're wondering if the protagonists finally leave their room for the big 'finale,' the answer is a resounding "not really." It even does a whole "dramatic-putting-on-of-jacket" just to instead going into a long pointless flashback. And then he doesn't even make it past the doorway, just casting magical tentacles at the random tertiary characters who still have yet to do jack squat except hop around and be obnoxious comic relief.

And that is how the season ends. Everybody just leaves and goes home. For the poor cops who never got to do anything at all in the entire show, they get to just stay home. No big reveals about the grand conspiracy. No big fight. Only flashbacks to the bikini goat-skull woman to further tell us what a nice but super duper mage not-Polka is, and some half-assed semi-transparent hands. Nothing advances. Nothing changes. No big cliffhanger. No hook for the next season. Nothing new at all. Literally, everybody just goes home, and for the protagonists, most of whom weren't even in the goddamned episode, they haven't left their stupid room since what… episode 7? Give me a goddamned break.