‘Merlin’ ends its unprecedented good streak of episodes with a hamfisted clunker of an episode that’s all showing and no telling.
Get your notebooks and pencils ready, it’s time for a lesson in major plot arcs and how to close them (or not) – ‘Merlin’ style.
Weak writing is something ‘Merlin’ fans have had to make peace with for a long, long time. So when an episode is finally well-written, is it too cliched to describe it as “pure magic”?
While Bros versus Hos may be a fight as old as time, hasn’t Merlin reached the point where choosing between the two shouldn’t even be necessary?
After three heavy-hitting episodes, Merlin goes back to fluff, filler, and campy shenanigans. And I, for one, have no complaints about that.
At a time in the season where episodes are usually throw-aways, ‘Merlin’ knocks it out of the park with an absolute game changer that opens more doors than it closes.
It seems the ‘Merlin’ writers have been reading my secret wishlist, because this week’s episode checked off a big one – I finally got a Gwen I could love.
