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My house is haunted.
AfterWhiteys on the Moon,Im on board for almost any expansion of the shows supernatural logic.
Theyre wasting no time here.
Holy Ghost deals a lot with death.
Its been three weeks since Georges funeral and the characters are all feeling his absence.
Its frustrating to watch Montrose, Atticus, and Leti lie by omission.
But how can they explain what happened back in Ardham when they arent even processing it themselves?
The three have avoided each other since Georges funeral.
But Hippolyta is smarter than theyre giving her credit for.
She senses something more complicated happened than George being shot by a sheriff.
As she says, something doesnt feel right.
The unknown is haunting her.
What might the characters worlds look like without George?
We know she wanted to do some of the travelling, and she deserves to.
Dee misses her father, too.
But these threads are put on pause to make way for this weeks main story.
Holy Ghost, is squarely Letitias episode.
The main plot is actually spelled out to us early on in an intertitle.
Thankfully, neither Letitia nor her artist friends that have moved in with her die or go missing.
All of our Black characters survive until the end of the episode.
Lest we forget, Letidiedin Ardham and she is dealing with that grief.
In the episodes opening, evocative scene, Leti is lost in thought while attending a church service.
The other churchgoers are jubilant: a woman dances, catching the holy spirit.
But Leti is completely detached.
The world she knows now is different.
What did you do to make a mark on this world?
the poetic voiceover asks (and youll notice, it almost sounds as if thevoiceoveris saying Leti).
Shes contemplating this question too, her own mortality at the front of her mind.
What is she going to do with this life in this strange new world?
Before we can get that answer, Letitia has to deal with the haunted house shes stumbled into.
Upon move-in, white men park cars in front of her lawn with bricks fastened to the horn.
They and other neighbors look on menacingly, while cops threateningly roll by.
The message is clear: they are not wanted here.
As the days roll on the tactics to get them to move increase in extremity.
(The intertitles declaring each Day are a little silly, but I appreciate a good timeline!)
If the perpetual horns werent enough, the heater is fixed to heat-them-out too.
Still, Leti does not budge.
She throws a housewarming party to declare that they cannot be so easily deterred.
But this is when things really escalate.
A switch flips and Leti goes on the offense.
Ruby helps them hide the guns after knowing what will come next, driving away with them.
Throughout the episode, Letitia is determined to feel something.
She begins by trying to make amends with Ruby, but years of emotions between them are uprooted.
She cries after, and we learn later that it was her first time.
The scene is pure, chaotic genre fare and Jurnee Smollett sells it.
(Just look at her sweat and tears after!)
Surely this was the beginning of her feeling something.
It turns out we didnt leaveallthat happened last week behind.
In the final scene, we learn that Christina Braithwhite is still alive.
In fact, she is the one who helped this house get into Letitias hands.
She paid off the realtist and sent Letitia the money for the house.
Christina is after something related to that house too.
And, oh yeah, we learn she has the power of invulnerability and cannot be harmed.
It looks like shes here to stay.
Leftover Country
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE.
Predator(for which she is often cited as the first Black woman to lead a sci-fi film).
Jurnee Smollett gets five stars this week.
Should I be scared of this golden, celestial contraption that seemed to lure Hippolyta in?
I feel bad for both of them and can feel the exhaustion and complicated, frustrated love.
He was trying to develop his own cipher for the language of Adam from the pages.
Previously, Titus Braithwhite was the only person with a cipher.
Hiram Epstein was a follower of Horatios.
Christina now wants those pages to decode the language and presumably obtain the power that comes with them.
Atticus during Christinas monologue: I didnt come here for a history lesson.
We were all thinking it.
I dont love Tic and Letis reception toward the priestess that helped them bring out the spirits.
They acted like her rituals were so strange when…Whiteys on the Moon happened.
Glad she lived, though!
Gaywatch: The novelist tenant who named his dog Baldwin… we see you.
