Midnight, Texas is once again back, this week with episode 7, which was given the title “Angel Heart”, an episode that added a lot of mythology to the show.

In the beginning, this episode seemed like it was going to be similar to the third episode, Lemuel’s centric, meaning that I thought we would see flashbacks of Joe’s early days, since the first scene took place a thousand years ago. But apparently this scene was just a standalone flashback, which makes me wonder why it was even showed. It was definitely a very small scene and the only things we learned from it was that angels hunt demons and that Bowie was older than Joe, things that could have been explained in present day. Not that I have anything against flashbacks, out of the contrary, I usually find them very enlightening, but if you want to make an episode with flashbacks, you better do it right.

It seems like the “them” that Joe mentioned last episode turned out to be a “she”, and Bowie really seemed very focused on finding and killing Joe. Sure that he would need him, Chuy came back and convinced his boyfriend to ask for help, which seems like a reasonable thing to do. By now they are all a team, and Joe already helped them in numerous occasions, so I was sure they wouldn’t mind lending them a hand. And turned out they absolutely didn’t, some of them were just a bit disappointed that Joe hadn’t told them about everything sooner.

As I said, this episode added a lot of mythology to the show, and Know we now a little better how some things work. Chuy is half-demon, so that is why he can control his demon self most of the times using strong connections between him and others (used to be his mother, and now it is Joe). Angels can’t be killed by humans, only by other angels or demons. I actually thought that Joe was the one who was going to kill Bowie when they started fighting, making him realize that he is stronger than he thinks, but turned out that Chuy lost control and let his demon out, making him the one who killed Bowie. I have to say that the way the she angel died was a bit weird. All Chuy had to do was bite her and she just exploded.

It is never as easy to imprison your demons as it is to let them go, and for another part of the episode everyone was trying to stop Chuy, and in the end Joe was almost forced to kill him, if it wasn’t for the bond that they both share. Speaking of bonds, some people may still think that it is weird and unacceptable watching a relationship between two people of the same gender, so now imagine a relationship between an angel and a demon. That would definitely blow those people’s brains out, because it definitely almost blew mine. And this is most likely to be the reason why Joe was kicked out of Heaven and was made Fallen.

But this relationship was far from the only one that was featured in this episode. In fact, all current relationships were, one way or another, discussed in this episode. Olivia is sure that the relationship between her and Lemuel is one with and ending in sight, because she is mortal and doesn’t want to be turned into a vampire. She plans to enjoy her boyfriend for a little while longer, but not too long. Fiji and Bobo started to bond again after their breakup (?), and I am looking forward to see them back together again.

The couple that, as usual, had more screen time in this episode was Manfred and Creek. Even though no one agreed with her decision, Creek started working again at the bar. But things didn’t take a nasty turn for them until Creek was kidnaped by Bowie. After reading her mind, the angel said to Manfred that Creek kind of blamed him for what happened because even though he is a psychic, he didn’t warn her that her brother was a serial killer and that her father was just as crazy as he was. This definitely is not fair for Manfred. Sure he is a psychic, but he can’t see the future, all he can do is talk to the dead. It isn’t his fault that any ghost of the dead girls told him who the actual killer was.

Last but not least, Joe finally told Manfred about the prophecy and how he thought that the psychic who was going to save Midnight was him. Manfred didn’t seem very convinced at all, but Joe tried to persuade as best as he could that that is in fact his destiny. Unfortunately, after losing the one thing that was keeping him in town and not wanting to be a part of any of that anymore, Manfred left Midnight. But don’t sweat too much over this people, because I am sure he will be back very soon.

Overall, this was a nice episode. Seems like the show is done with fillers for the rest of the season and I am very glad about that. I am giving it an 8.1/10.

Brace yourselves, because next week there will not be one episode of Midnight, Texas, but two. That’s right, both episodes 8 (“Last Temptation of Midnight”) and 9 (“Riders of the Storm”) will be released next week, one on Monday and the other on Tuesday, so don’t forget to check up both my reviews.