Review #3779: Haven 3.6: “Real Estate”
Contributor: J. M.
Written by Brian Millikin
Directed by Jason Priestley
Honestly, I really dread most holiday episodes, particularly Halloween episodes. They usually end up with a shoe-horned horror plot that takes away from a status quo and doesn’t add anything above and beyond the usual, and instead saddling us with something vaguely unwatchable. That doesn’t really apply to “Haven”, given its roots in Stephen King’s writing and the preexisting supernatural twist. After setting up the new status quo in the previous episodes, this episode does very well to set it all in motion, testing out the interactions between the main characters within a confined environment while highlighting an interesting moral dilemma.
The premise of the episode is simple enough, and cribbed from countless horror movies, both of higher and lesser quality: a group of people get stuck in a haunted house and have to escape. “Haven”’s execution of it is of course tied to a trouble, and a very interesting one at that. The idea of pouring yourself into a place is not all that uncommon, but the twist of literally pouring yourself into a house is quite novel. It also allows the writers to explore the new status quo in a pressured environment.
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Mirrored from Critical Myth.