Review #3922: Haven 3.13: “Thanks for the Memories”
Contributor: J.M.
Written by Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn
Directed by Shawn Piller
Well, after a weaker transitional episode, the writers pulled out all the stops, laid waste to the status quo, and drastically altered the landscape for the fourth season of “Haven” after the breakneck-paced season finale. All season I have been critical of the execution of the Skinwalker/Bolt Gun Killer plot, and very disappointed with a lack of follow up on the anti-Troubled sentiment following the death of the Rev in the second season finale. But I have to give credit to the writers for setting up the answers to the Troubles and then actually delivering on them, but still leaving a lot more information out there to be discovered.
The episode begins with a conversation with Agent Howard. The revelations he gives are in line with what has been shown to the viewer’s already: he represents the manifestation of the Barn, Audrey’s caretaker while she stays in the Barn to keep the Troubles at bay. The Barn itself is not just a barn, but some kind of amplifier for her non-Trouble, which keeps them at bay but she has to come out every 27 years to recharge on love. This is recognized by nearly everyone in the situation as a band-aid solution, and much of the episode is devoted to the mad scramble to find some way out of the fact that has apparently gone on for hundreds of years: Audrey has to go into the Barn, to die, and come back to keep the Troubles at bay.
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Mirrored from Critical Myth.