HBO's "Dark Matters": a review of the second episode

We need to talk about Marisa.

Confused and disappointed, Lyra begins to investigate Mrs. Coulter's secrets in more detail. Another detail that makes her distrust her guardian is that the woman's demon is somehow able to move away from her at impressive distances. In the world of "Dark Matter," this is a serious anomaly, because being without a demon is just as unnatural as walking without your own head. Interestingly, there was no such opportunity in the books of Mrs. Coulter's Pullman, her nameless demon was constantly silent, but did not leave her at some suspicious distance. Most likely, the showrunners decided to once again emphasize how traumatized Ruth Wilson's character is, and full of contradictions.

Despite her self-confidence and thirst for power, Marisa does not give up happy - she even directly says that she is afraid of heights, because she is afraid of not being able to resist and jump down. Despite her cruelty, Mrs. Coulter sometimes shows unexpected tenderness - she holds back tears after an argument with Lyra and looks at the girl so sadly that she wants to forgive all her thefts. At least until she burns the letters of the abducted children with a sadistic smile.

The protagonist's investigation reveals the terrible truth: her guardian is headed by those most terrible "priests" who conduct secret experiments on children and their demons. I won't spoil or tell you what happens to the subjects, but the drawings of strange structures with cages, blades and grids don't bode well. When a journalist at a party, Mrs. Coulter, confirms Lyra's guesses, the girl takes the opportunity and runs away from the apartment. But the streets of London are also a dangerous place for a child, and the episode ends with someone unceremoniously abducting the protagonist and her demon.

If anyone seems even scarier than Mrs. Coulter, it's the Magisterium, the all-powerful religious organization that the woman works for. In the second episode, we are shown two colleagues of the heroine - strict father Macphail (Will Keen) and Lord Boreal (Erion Bakara). The latter turns out to be particularly interesting. Firstly, he clearly has some kind of very personal relationship with Marisa, and secondly, he knows how to travel between worlds and at one point finds himself in a hyper cafe among "our" London. Boreal is chasing another researcher of parallel universes, but he feels too comfortable among smartphones, taxis and skyscrapers - apparently he often visits our dimension.

This storyline is another example of how the series and the Pullman book differ. Traveling between worlds was only seriously featured in the second and third parts of the trilogy, so it's interesting that the showrunners decided to speed up the course of events and already hint at the central conflicts and plots of further seasons. Contact 24/7 support inside мелбет via live chat or email.