Wynonna Earp Season 2 Episode 12 Review: I Hope You Dance

| August 26, 2017 |

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This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers.

Wynonna Earp Season 2, Episode 12

It'south hard to pull off a peachy Tv flavour finale. Yous take to reply enough questions to bring closure to the season's arcs, while also leaving the viewer with mysteries and lingering threads that go out them hungry for more. Hoo boy did Wynonna Earp do that with "I Promise Yous Trip the light fantastic."

Baby Earp was born! Waverly isn't a revenant! Jeremy has some kind of super secret power! And, oh yeah, Momma Earp is alive and well and hanging out in the Canadian wilderness where Wynonna can manifestly visit her. Those were simply the major highlights of an hr of telly that saw the supernatural family unit evidence pulling the trigger onallof its Chekhov Peacemakers.

Similar last flavour, Wynonna Earp spent a season edifice on the mysteries and relationships that would come to eloquent fruition in its terminal installments. It tied the rollercoaster of a ride together through some stellar grapheme development and a mutual theme: family — the ones we cull, the ones we get stuck with, and the ones nosotros betray.

Let'southward break this season finale downward!

Baby Earp is built-in.

Allow's hope this isn't the last we've seen of Wynonna and Doc's (yep, she is Doc'due south) daughter. After a one-half-season of waiting to meet the Littlest Earp, she is ushered away via helicopter by Perry, aka Wynonna's former classmate and high schoolhouse reunion engagement from Episode three. Talk about going well beyond the duties of a high school reunion date!

The helicopter difference is part of an elaborate plan Wynonna has been working on with Nicole, confidently heartbroken in the knowledge that Baby Earp will never be safety in the Ghost River Triangle. One need look no further than Rosita's understandable, yet disappointing betrayal for proof of that. That infant has every revenant in town and the Legion of Burly Purgatory Firefighters afterward her inside minutes of her birth. If Wynonna and Waverly learned anything from their childhood, it's that growing up an Earp in Purgatory does not usually make for happy memories.

But that doesn't mean the conclusion is an like shooting fish in a barrel 1 for Wynonna, Waverly, or Physician. Melanie Scrofano has been slaying information technology all season with Wynonna'due south emotional, yet in-grapheme processing of the intense state of affairs she has found herself in. This pregnancy has been a series of hard decisions later another, and choosing to give Alice up to be raised by Aunt Gus may be the hardest and the easiest all wrapped into ane. It's too proof that Wynonna is a skilful mom. I just actually, really hope we see that kid again.

Earlier Alice gets on her private helicopter, she gets a adventure to say hi to her dad (who spends much of this episode racing back and forth across the frozen Canadian tundra, bless his heart). It's a stoic, heartbreaking scene, one that is made all-the-more-powerful for the manner Doc has been supportive of Wynonna and his unborn child throughout the season. Similar Wynonna, Physician's feelings on the discipline of letting his daughter become are bittersweet. This is a human who was asked to split a bullet by shooting in the management of his Baby Mama and unborn kid, but who looks the most miserable when he'southward watching his daughter wing away.

It's a quiet scene that sees Wynonna and Doc reunite after Alice'south departure. Though the residual of the gang, particularly Waverly, seems heartbroken to give Alice up (Jeremy lets slip at 1 point that he calls Babe Earp "The Pod" in his head), no i save for Doc can quite sympathize what Wynonna is feeling. He sits with her, and asks most his daughter's name — Alice Michelle, later on their 2 mothers — and silently agrees when she pledges to pause the Earp expletive for their girl. It's plenty, for now, even though nothing really is.

Bulshar is back.

While much of Wynonna Earp teased the danger of the Reverend Clootie for much of the 2d flavour, the bear witness played it coy on the Bulshar front in the finale, giving the last two sister-wives their comeuppance (thanks to Doc's mad sharp-shooting skills), but just teasing at the expletive-creating monster to come. Information technology was a smart decision. This season was about the extent we'll all go to family — both the family unit nosotros're born into, and the family unit we've chosen. We meet the positive side of that with Squad Earp, but we see the negative side of that with Team Clootie.

Though the Black Widows may be gone, Bulshar has a willing minion in Bobo. The revenant may be trapped downward Dr.'due south well, but I doubt he will stay at that place for long. I'm not sure if I believe Bobo's choice to join Team Clootie, particularly after the lengths he's gone to protect Waverly in the by, but hell changes a person, I suppose. And, like Rosita, Bobo knows that, in the end, Wynonna will transport him back to hell. Now that she has a daughter to protect from the legacy of the curse, Wynonna isnotmessing around when it comes to crossing revenants off her listing.

The near interesting aspect of Bulshar's render, I call up, is the reveal that Wynonna seems to know a fair bit about him. When she rides off to see her mother in the Canadian wilderness, she tells her Momma that she was right most Bulshar's inevitable return, implying that her female parent has told her stories. Why didn't Wynonna mention this before? Has she been visiting her female parent this whole time? And does anyone else know almost Momma Earp'south "nearby" condition? With the reveal that Waverly is not, in fact, a revenant, Momma's input on the matter could be quite helpful.

Additional questions.

Are Nicole and Dolls hiding something?

I can't be the only i who was picking up weird vibes from Nicole and Dolls' eye contact in that last scene, right? Were they just being secretive because Nicole no doubtfulness knows that it was Dolls who burnt the fire department to an ashy crisp? (This storyline definitely got the short end of the flavour finale stick?) Or was there more than to it than that? Both of these characters are known to go on secrets.

Why did Peacemaker burn bluish when Waverly shot information technology?

When Waverly fired Peacemaker to shoot Rosita, the gun burned blue like it did when Wynonna shot Willa. Does it burn blue when a Earp is shooting someone they're related to? Or is at that place another commonality here that I'yard not seeing?

What is Jeremy's clandestine talent?

Jeremy apparently has a bunch of metal in his body from a car blow he was in as a child? The metal may or may not be related to a super surreptitious power that explains his Black Badge recruitment. Given that he knew about WayHaught's movements, perhaps it's some kind of telepathy or long-distance communication skill? I don't know.

In conclusion…

Like most of the residual of Wynonna Earp Flavor 2, the finale episode was a chief class in supernatural drama storytelling. This show took an unexpected, real-life "complication" — the pregnancy of its pb actress — and built its season around it. The bravery, centre, and feminist subversiveness of this evidence has been written about a lot, particularly post-pregnancy reveal, merely it bears repeating: Wynonna Earp isn't just one of the most fun shows on TV; it's one of the best, full end.