![]() ![]() “Wildwood” arrived just after the season’s midpoint. These episodes are doing things that the larger series needs but that aren’t compelling to watch. The problem with episodes like “ Wildwood” and “Beyond the Shattered Sea” is that a lot of the actual mechanical work gets farmed out to episodes that aren’t especially satisfying on their own terms. There are things that the writing staff clearly needs to set up and establish, a lot of framework that needs to be built. ![]() Willow is built as a single eight-episode narrative, with a clear structure. The second half of Willow suffers from a number of common problems with modern series, largely down to the tendency to think of modern streaming shows as single continuous narratives chopped into arbitrary portions rather than as a set of distinct and delineated episodes. This discussion and review contains some spoilers for Willow episode 7, “Beyond the Shattered Sea,” on Disney+. ![]()
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