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Wynonna Earp S2. E2: ‘A Whole Lotta Nope’

You guys. This episode. My favorite so far? Possibly. This episode feels like the turning point for Waverly, where she goes from generally helpless sidekick who does the background research to co-partner in Wynonna’s badassness. Also, if it turns out Waverly is half demon and has super powers, that’s going to be a super awesome addition to the Scooby team. Wynonna could use more supernatural allies. Also worth noting is that Nicole finally got to dress a little gay, and that we got this close to a WayHaught sex scene. Plot-wise, it’s the perfect mix of poignant, witty, bold, and scheming. Overall, top shelf episode.

Previously on “Wynonna Earp,” Waverly tasted different and Dolls ran free like a mustang. When we start episode 2, Wynonna and Doc are sharing a flirtatious moment showering…in disinfectant after having visited Bob Del Rey’s trailer park and not having found any Revenants…and doing some dirty work for Black Badge (the details of which are never returned to in the episode, which is a fun way of suggesting a wider universe for the Wynonna Earp world without having to explicitly show everything).

An unhappy Wynonna complains about having to do the paperwork for it, which prompts (surprise trick of the camera! Wynonna and Doc aren’t alone!) Agent Luchado to step out and read, “Whatever gooed us stunk of living anus and was hairier than a pre-waxed Nedley.” It’s exactly the type of sass you would write in a school report if you hated your teacher and didn’t care about your grade, which is exactly how Wynonna feels about Black Badge. Luchado is pissed because Wynonna and Doc didn’t kill or capture the creature, and until all the creatures from the Hellmouth are rounded up, Luchado is stuck in Purgatory, which she views as its own living anus.

Back at the sheriff’s office, Nicole is smoothly downplaying what she recognizes is probably a Hellmouth-related incident while Waverly flirts at her from a distance (dressed in her usual eccentric, slightly inappropriate Waverly fashion). Nicole is having none of it, however, because she’s still hurt by her exclusion from the Black Badge blood oath incident. She coldly reminds Waverly that her real job is figuring out who’s flying a drone over the girls’ dance studio, not hunting demons. They then exchange the usual passive-aggressive lesbian couple banter:

Waverly: I’m sorry they un-deputized you from Black Badge. Don’t hold it against me, please.

Nicole: I’m not mad.

Waverly: Oh, okay, in that case…

Nicole: Never talk to me again, Earp traitor.

Nicole hands Waverly the case she just took and storms off, which is reeeeal mature, Haught. Reeeal mature. Back in the Black Badge spaces in the sheriff’s office (which I’ll call BBHQ, Black Badge Headquarters, for short), Luchado is playing petty government bureaucrat dictator while the Scooby Gang rolls their eyes and do their best to ignore her. The tech guy Jeremy from the last episode announces he has created an app to track all the creatures that came through the Hellmouth, which catches Wynonna’s interest until he says he can’t actually track them yet.

Waverly offers up Nicole’s case, which involves creepy sounds coming from a new condo complex, but Luchado dismisses the idea scornfully. Chasing down random sounds is far too ad hoc and unregimented to work. She wants order and logic and sees all of them as totally useless except for Wynonna’s gun. Waverly is the coffee girl (ouch) and what does Doc contribute anyway? Wynonna doesn’t appreciate Luchado’s terrible attitude, but Luchado reminds her that if they don’t produce results-namely, kill a demon-Black Badge will liquidate all of them (including herself), like they did Eliza.

Wynonna decides to pursue the condo thing. The condo development is owned by Mercedes Gardner, an old frenemy from high school who was Purgatory’s second most hated female after Wynonna. Mercedes tells Wynonna the condo complex was previously an abandoned school. Nothing at all likely to be a giant nope there. Wynonna chases down a suspiciously fleeing construction worker and finds out it’s Earl, a Revanant who’s just trying to make a living, and then she flashes back to the night she had to kill Willa to save the world. This distraction allows Earl to slip away, but when Wynonna gives chase, she finds instead a whole bunch of cobwebs and a big cocoon. Clearly, there’s a very big nope spider hanging out in the old school.

Wynonna brings the cocoon back to BBHQ and calls Doc for help…suggesting in her voicemail that he actually learn to use a cell phone, which is kind of funny given that the show mostly glosses over the fact that Doc was imprisoned for a century in a well and should pretty much be overwhelmingly gobsmacked by airplanes, phones, television, and pretty much all of modernity. I’d like more scenes of Doc answering the phone upside down and discovering what a bidet is, for the record. Cutting into the cocoon releases a puff of cold air, more flashbacks to Willa for Wynonna, and triggers the appearance of a black fog of evil, but the knife Wynonna pulls to stab into Memory Willa is caught by Waverly, who comes bearing coffee.

Waverly dissects the cocoon like she’s seen every episode of the show “CSI.” Wynonna is complaining about how dangerous Luchado is, but what she’s really complaining about is the disintegration of the Scoobies. Doc has been emotionally AWOL (OMG, apparently Doc’s hat needs its own funeral, because no one can get over its loss), Dolls is gone (Wynonna tells Waverly he’s dead, which is a lie), and the “us” in team is really starting to flag. Wynonna intuits that even Waverly’s life has gone to “less banging, more cold shoulder,” which Waverly defends as her need to keep Nicole at a distance to keep her safe. Said Spiderman and pretty much every super hero ever.

Just then, the cocoon bursts open and a giant spider jumps out and waves its antennae at them, making them scream. Wynonna traps it with a garbage can because Luchado wants it alive, but it seems too strong to be kept captive, so she and Waverly decide to shoot it with Peacemaker, even though Peacemaker has been irregularly misfiring for Wynonna ever since she used it to kill Willa. When they tip the can over, however, there’s no demon insect inside. AHHHHH! No, it was totally there and it charges Waverly, then dodges toward Wynonna, who shoots it.

Waverly stuffs it into a jar and tells Wynonna that she has to take a disinfection shower to get the bug goo off, but Wynonna would rather wear the goo than take that shower again, Luchado’s rules be damned. “This may be a shit show, but it’s our shit show,” she tells Waverly, symbolically reclaiming autonomy from Black Badge. The Scoobies will ride again, and break free of the yoke of Black Badge’s oppression!

In an alley, Doc is trying to recruit Rosie, a probable Revenant, to work for him. She won’t be bought, however, until Doc offers the one thing money can’t buy: protection (probably from Wynonna). Back at the Earp homestead, Wynonna comes out of the shower to find an unexpected stranger at the kitchen table. She pulls out the nearest weapon she can find, which looks like a shotgun until we see it’s actually an umbrella (this is hilarious) and the stranger is Jeremy. Waverly invited him because she wants him to be part of the Scoobies and I seriously hope he gets killed soon because he is super annoying and brings nothing to the table.

Upstairs, Waverly and Nicole are sitting on the bed while Waverly reads Willa’s old diary. Waverly was “brought to the house,” and according to young Willa, there was “something wrong” with her and her mother said they needed to do “what was right.” Was she a Revenant baby? Waverly admits that Bobo also said she wasn’t an Earp, and Nicole tries to comfort her by saying Bobo probably lied she’s the Earpiest Earp, but Waverly knows there’s truth to it. Nicole is dressed possibly the gayest we’ve seen so far and props to the costuming department for bringing the gay out. It is adorable.

Wynonna then arrives to freak out to Waverly because she thinks she’s being haunted by Willa: she smells her perfume and thinks she catches glimpses of a female ghost. Waverly suggests that maybe Willa is haunting her in the sense that they haven’t let go of her emotionally. She suggests torching everything of Willa’s, so they do. Meanwhile, Jeremy dissects the demon spider and is either romantically crushing on Doc or bro crushing on Doc. Doc just wants to figure out how to use voicemail.

After burning Willa’s stuff, a drunkish Wynonna admits to Doc that she couldn’t keep the Scoobies together. She can’t be a leader because she’s only good for being the wiseass in the back of the class. She misses Dolls, and Doc knows it, but Doc reminds her that Dolls can’t come back to Purgatory or Black Badge will find him. Wynonna says she wouldn’t have kissed Dolls if she’d known that Doc was alive, but Doc dismisses the idea. She can kiss anyone she wants…but only if they want to be kissed, and he does not want to be kissed by her now. Not anymore. Meanwhile, Jeremy has figured out that the demon spider is actually a baby, just as Mercedes calls Wynonna begging to be saved from the two baby demon ticks that have her pinned in a stairwell at the condo.

Wynonna arrives in time to save her, then sets off to find Earl. Earl is scared by the spiders as well, and also hates this loop he falls into with the Earp heirs in which he gets sent back to Hell, then regenerates, then is sent back again. He just wants to live a normal life, or rather, one protecting this nope place to which he’s drawn. Wynonna wants the curse to be broken as well, but clearly Earl doesn’t know that for that to happen, all the Revenants will be sent to Hell eternally. Earl informs Wynonna that the condo/school was built on a chapel. Nope built on nope=hell to the nope.

At Shorty’s, Luchado confronts Doc over stealing her classified documents. Doc calls her bluff though because he can blackmail her with its contents. They make a deal: she’ll finance Shorty’s–which Nedley offered Doc earlier in the episode–in return for the documents. She then tries to flirt with him and all of us, including Doc, want a disinfectant shower after the unpleasant experience. This, Doc tells her, is what he brings to the team: cunning and a willingness to play dirty. Back at the condos, Wynonna and Waverly go ham on the eggs they find inside the chapel and emerge drenched in demonic goo. I’m literally so proud of Waverly as the two walk side-by-side away from the carnage. Unbeknownst to them, however, two demon fog creatures watch them go. Ooooh.

Back at BBHQ, Wynonna relays news of the destruction of the egg sacks to Luchado, who is completely distracted. Jeremy asks if killing the eggs made Wynonna wet, to which Wynonna inserts her own inappropriate jokes here, but Jeremy explains that this demon species normally lives in water. And come to think of it, Waverly adds, Earl and the weird black demon fog ghosts shouldn’t be there either. There must be something super evil there to which they’re drawn. And in fact, when they return, someone already took the liberty of setting up some Satanic ritual that involved killing Earl (I thought only Peacemaker could do that…) and some other random people.

Back at the Earp homestead, Waverly and Nicole (OMG, now she has a ponytail and a button down and this is like, the best ever) share a super cute moment that goes like this:

Waverly: Sorry I made you feel bad.

Nicole: It’s okay, girlfriends fight.

Waverly: It’s the worst.

Nicole: OMG it’s so totally the worst we’re probably soulmates let’s stop fighting. Also, here are request forms to help prove or disprove your Earpness.

Cue sexy music and a brief moment of lesbian processing about “are you sure?” before some making out leading to the bed…and we cut away back to Shorty’s, where Wynonna is having a drink. She has a feeling that something bad is on its way to Purgatory. Little does she know that in addition to this new Big Bad, Doc appears to be using Rosie to build something in the basement that probably won’t end well. Turns out Rosie has a knack for tech stuff, and whatever they’re building is going to make Shorty’s go boom in a big way.

At the end of the episode, Waverly’s eyes go black and she takes out the spider baby carcass on the kitchen table for a post-coital snack. Yasssss. I am loving this season.

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