“Midnight, Texas” is back with episode 102, “Bad Moon Rising”, and I have to say that this episode was much better than the first one, and not just because we didn’t see Mr. Snuggly. In some ways I think this episode set the story for the season/show in a more detailed way than the pilot did.

Tensions continue to raise in the beginning of the episode alongside the moon. Not only Bobo was charged with a murder a lot of people say he didn’t commit, but also the full moon was coming and with it we learned what Reverend Emilio is, not a werewolf, but a weretiger. This fact makes this show a little bit like “Teen Wolf” in which people aren’t only turned into wolves, but also other animals like coyote, jaguar… In this show they say that your personality reflects on the animal you become. But things are still different here, of course, since in this show one is born a child of moon, and so cannot be turned or turn others. Anyway, in this episode the Reverend caused a great amount of trouble and even lost control and killed a woman (Tina Gomez, a police officer). I think it was really beautiful, well-made and different seeing the Rev. turn from tiger to human, especially the final part of the transformations, when the wind sort of blows away the hair of the tiger like it was nothing but leaves.

It was also nice to see that everyone in Midnight (or at least most people) know about the supernatural or highly suspect somethings is wrong. Some of them don’t know exactly which person is what, but they know some are magical. This is definitely a good thing because a lot of shows spend too many time thinking whether or not to tell someone about their supernatural abilities and, sometimes, it eventually gets boring and repetitive all this struggle to keep someone in the dark. This is also a good thing because, like Manfred’s grandmother said, people like her grandson don’t have to pretend to be normal and so they can fully embrace who they are.

I was also glad that the police found out more about Aubrey’s death and let Bobo out. I was afraid they would try to extend it for a long time and we would see for a few episodes the supernatural team come together to break him out of jail. It would have been nice to watch that, but not if we had to wait several episodes for that to happen, when we can watch much more enjoyable things. In other shows sometimes the biggest enemy isn’t the most powerful one, but the weakest and by this I mean us humans, especially police officers. Sometimes they don’t want people to know about the supernatural and so “waste” some episodes doing something that could have easily been done in a faster away, just so that they don’t reveal themselves. I am glad that this show will be different (or at least it seems like it will).

As I said before, this episode really set up on what appears will be the story of the season. It started when Fiji performed the exorcism, but apparently it wasn’t quite complete because something is still in this side of the veil. And it doesn’t seem to be some regular demon, but a powerful one, which has a special interest on Fiji. Aside from this, we heard Joe tell a prophecy. I love prophecies, especially the ones that end up being self-fulfilling because it makes my head hurt if I think about it for a long time. Joe says the vail is breaking, but it is prophesized that an army will battle the evil and seal the vail forever. This army will be led by a man with the gift of vision. The first person that comes to mind about this “man of vision” is probably Manfred. I guess we will see if the guesses are correct.

Lastly, it was also great to see Creek and Manfred kiss in the end of the episode because that means the writers won’t probably focus on making a really big drama out of that love story, pulling them both to and away from each other at the same time.

It was definitely a great improvement from last episode to this one. Hope it only gets better, and things seem to be definitely pointing in that direction. I will give this episode a 8.0/10.

I will be back next week with my review of episode 103 “Lemuel, Unchained”. Hope you guys stick around.