Slasher: The Executioner episode review — 1.8 — Soon Your Eyes Will See

Original air date: April 15, 2016
Director: Craig David Wallace
Writer: Aaron Martin

Rating: 5/10

With Cam revealed to be the killer, it’s clear to see what’s going on when he arrests Dylan for all the murders (including his own preacher father, whom he kills in this episode).

There is also a flashback to him as a kid, which is supposed to serve as some kind of reasoning for why he’s like this, but I didn’t think it worked so much.

While given where Sarah’s and Dylan’s relationship was in the last episode, you’d think it would be reasonable that she might think he’s the murderer. But fortunately Dylan published an apology to her in the newspaper, and she decides she can trust him when he says he didn’t do it, and she looks in Cam’s home for evidence, which she of course finds.

It was actually kind of silly how easily she found things out.

Also, it’s Halloween now. Not super important, but a nice touch.

She attends a Halloween party thrown by Robin, and eventually takes Cam aside, pretending to want to hook up with him again, but instead she stabs him.

We eventually get a confrontation with the recently released Dylan, Cam, and Sarah at Sarah’s house, and it’s satisfying and very violent.

It’s definitely silly how easily things seem to be resolved, as you’d think a couple of people violently killing a cop would have some difficulty explaining everything.

But we skip ahead to when everything is good, so I guess we don’t know how long it might have taken them to show the other police officers all the evidence they had found.

Sarah and Dylan move out of town, and Robin shows their house to a new family, with a daughter that kills a cat, implying that the house will continue to have psychopaths around it.

I’m not going to say the season deserved a stronger ending, given that I didn’t really love the season, but I would have liked something more. I wanted the mystery to have a more satisfying conclusion, and I think the show could have done more with the Cam and Sarah relationship throughout the season rather than just in this episode.

While the mystery itself isn’t too satisfying, at least the violence is. The climax in Sarah’s house is incredibly gory for television, and that’s nice.