While it was creepy, yes, (just try and get that image out of your head) I couldn't get over the fact that this was just like the ending of any high school horror movie ever made.
1. Marty ran UP the stairs in the creepy, creepy hoarder house.
2. Rust was brutally stabbed three times and lived for no reason whatsoever.
3. There was a chase scene that led into some abandoned maze full of failed attempts at whittling.
4. The Yellow King's voice somehow traveled the length of this scary maze and served as a narrator for Rust's epiphany. (WHICH WAS A VORTEX?!)
5. Rust and Marty are friends! All is well.
I just can't understand how this season opened the flood gates open to some pretty visceral concepts about humanity, religion, murder, women and you know, the whole underbelly of consciousness and then just, well, ended.
Things that never, ever, got tied up:
1. What the hell did the Tuttle's have to do with any of this other than EVERYTHING? Did it really just come down to one insane man? And how the hell did we finally get to see the insane Yellow King only to have him die, like, immediately!
2. Harrelson's family dynamic: they spent an awful lot of time on this subject and I guess we should be happy that his daughters came to see him in the hospital, but honestly it didn't matter at all so why show it?
3. Are the killings really over? Did the Yellow King just carry on the tradition of his family? Why the hell was his dad, (Old Bill) tied up and ready to die in the back shed? What's the point of any of this if it only works to get super creepy?
4. The Yellow King and his sister: What. The. Shit.
5. Good and Evil, Heaven and Hell, Consciousness and whatever... Was this really all summed up because Rust had an acid flashback and felt positive about his dead daughter? Let's look at stars!
If you really want to know what the Yellow King was about, you should probably check this out.
