Into the Badlands used to be about surviving in a cold and uncaring world, even if that meant compromising your integrity to do so. Fine, okay, the show’s setting is still very much like that, but the story’s emotional core is no longer a victim of it. In this season, the writers have taken the time and effort to make the Badlands into more of an ambiguous gray area, a limbo, rather than a hellish nightmare where everyone just wants to get their pillage on. What I don’t understand is why I was secretly rooting for Pilgrim during their decisive, head-to-head battle.Maybe that’s just a testament to how it’s getting more and more difficult to determine who’s good and who’s evil as Badlands nears the finish line? This serieshas more or less existed in a moral vacuum ever since it debuted.

Basically, she wants to teach them responsibility. She wants to teach the dark ones discipline and balance while also protecting the lives of innocents from any violent acts they may incite. Her methods to contain them (like inducing comas by sticking pointy needles in them, for example) are questionable indeed. Pilgrim confronts The Master on her own turf, emancipating the Abbots with the promise of more freedom-but under whose control? Azra’s, apparently, which is just a pretty way of saying Pilgrim’s.īut the points he makes about how The Master controls the dark gifts of those who follow her are valid. This time was no exception, but thanks to the epic brawl between her and The Widow (Emily Beecham), it’s most likely the final time we’ll get to see her in action.īut “Cobra Fang, Panther Claw” starts off with a different fight, one that manifests the larger ideological conflict happening across this season on the physical plain. Eleanor Matsuura has always knocked her performance out of the park during each appearance. Not to say that Juliet isn’t one of the more enjoyable villains on the series. What I mean is, you know when it’s time to kill people off, and Baron Chau’s had it coming for a while now. You know where you’re going and which characters are sticking around for the long haul. I’ll miss the way you make sure every scene counts I’ll miss how every interaction you show on screen pushes the plot forward explicitly and I’ll miss how you don’t waste the audience’s time, do you? That’s because you’re determined. I’m going to miss you a lot more than I thought I would. This Into The Badlands review contains spoilers.

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