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Warning: Spoilers from His Dark Materials season 2, episode 7 are discussed in this article.
Lin-Manuel Miranda has been preparing for this moment ever since reading the works of author Philip Pullman. And yet, like everyone else who knows what happens in
The Subtle Knife, the second installment of the
His Dark Materials book trilogy, watching the events play out on screen in the HBO and BBC fantasy-drama was another experience entirely.
The season 2 finale, which aired on HBO Monday a week after hitting U.K. airwaves on the BBC, saw the deaths of two characters. Well, four, if you count their daemons. The seventh episode one short of the initial eight-episode order because of pandemic filming complications adapted Alamo Gulch, a location from
WHAT IT S ABOUT:
Lyra s quest to uncover the sinister plot of the Magisterium continues as the events of Philip Pullman s book The Subtle Knife unfold. Lyra and Will finally meet in a strange new world.
WHAT WE THOUGHT:
His Dark Materials has been brought to the screen before in the 2007 film,
The Golden Compass. But anyone who has read the books would know just what a disaster it was, and that s why watching the HBO, and BBC1 production is such an absolute joy. They ve kept true to the books and brought this exciting story to screen beautifully.
His Dark Materials is set in a multi-world reality and follows the story of Lyra Belacqua (Dafne Keen) who lives in a world where the manifestation of people s souls take the form of animals called daemons. A child s daemon changes shape constantly until it settles when they become teenagers. The world is ruled by a church called the Magisterium.
One of my favorite things about
His Dark Materials is how it starts off as a fun children’s fantasy with an occasional smattering of theological rage and despair, before it goes full-tilt “If God exists, why don’t we kill him?” “Æsahættr,” the finale of the extremely successful second season of
His Dark Materials, is all about that turning point. After a rousing penultimate episode last week,
His Dark Materials delivers on revelations and fateful meetings with the season 2 finale, which marks the beginning of the end of this grand story.
Mother of All
Following the Spectres’ attack on one of their witch guardians, Lyra and Will insist that the witches leave to protect themselves, but Serafina is determined to do her duty by Lyra. However, Serafina is willing to play things a little more cautiously, sending her two fellow witches out on separate quests: one to scout the path ahead, the other to head back to Cittàgazze, to warn a man they had spotted earlier in
(HBO, 9 p.m., second-season finale): HBO’s glossy adaptation of Philip Pullman’s celebrated series closes the book on its second season with “Æsahættr.” That’s the name of the Subtle Knife from which the second book in the trilogy takes its name and it’s a safe bet that it’ll be hugely important to this finale, in which all roads lead to the Cittàgazze.
The series be back for season three eventually. But for now, content yourselves with Myles McNutt’s recap (or, you know, just read book three. It’s good!)