| Episode Guide: Episode Five First Aired: 23rd October 2005 Written by: Peter Tabern Directed by: Brian Grant Thelma Bates: Jemima Rooper Ella Dee: Laura Pyper David Tyrel: Colin Salmon Leon Taylor: Jamie Davis Roxanne: Amber Sainsbury Jez Herriot: Sam Troughton Tom: Samuel Collings Alex: Jemima Abey Dr Garrett: Daniel Casey Nurse Perie: Katrine De Candole Big Janice: Lucy Bowen Max: Leon Ford It's five episodes in, and at time of writing, I have missed episodes three and four. Hopefully I will be able to catch up at some stage, but the recap tells you all you need to know. Cassie is gone, Jex is evil, Ella has beens ectioned...she blames Thelma, Leon blames himself, Roxanne says its the best thing for her....what happened, I do not know! But anyway, Ella is now locked up, being poisened by St. John's Wort. "Touch not the wort of St. John, for it is an abomination to the Annointed Ones" (good old Orakiah). David Tyrel has quit the school, leaving evil Jez in charge, and things are not looking goof for our new star! Enter Leon! As I hoped, Leon is really getting a chance this season, with the next two episodes being pretty much his story. He's in love with Ella...I missed where that developed, but it leaves him the only one willing to help her, with a little help from Thelma in his dreams! We also meet a new addition to the evil gang this week, Nurse Perie, the evil fairie! She's the one doing the poisening, but when Thelma zaps her with one of Ella's weapons, she's reduced to a little glowy fairy, and Leon is able to escape with Ella, taking her to the home of drug-dealer Max. I have to say, coming in from a point of view of having missed a couple of episodes...its a completely different series. Cassie is long gong, Azazeal is nowhere to be seen in this episode, and to be honest, nothing really happens. Ella is locked up and broken out by Leon...that's the plot...the rest is just talk. As much as I like things to move slowly, and talking is always good with this fun cast, I can't help thinking this thirteen episode season could quite easily have just been another six? Don't get me wrong, I'm still enjoying it, but its not the same as the first series...Hex was most definatly Cassie's story...now without Cassie, it's not really anybody's story...its much more ensemble, with Thelma, and the general Nephilim threat as the link between them all...not bad in any way, just different. Back To: Hexed Up Home StrangeOnline Home |