A Girl and Her Cat

The review for this next two episode is a little different. I was blasting a 12 Hz strobe at my closed eyes while the audio played. The specific frequency excites the mind in such a way as invoke a dream like state and colourful patterns. I have trouble sleeping and I use this as a way to ease myself in.

I have to admit that this does handicap my reviewing abilities to some extent. Watching the show with my eyes closed made me appreciate just how visual a lot of its humour is. The show is sometimes closer to a cartoon in this regard which is one of the things that makes it unusual. At the beginning of the episode Zelda is talking on the phone. So visual were the jokes during this scene that despite being able to hear the laughtrack the punchline was completely omitted from the dialogue. I hadn't a clue what was going on.

Sabrina abandons Salem outside a pizzeria after he sneaks into her backpack. Salem is then taken by a kid and Sabrina must hunt him down.

Sabrina's love for Salem is tested. Salem is an irritating character. Salem is a megalomaniac. He reads Sabrina's diary and destroys her favourite Christmas jumper and then refuses to apologise for any of it.

This episode is notable as being the first one i've seen that reveals Salem's attraction to men.

The scenes between the little Kid and anyone are painful. Grown ups should play children in movies the way men played women in shakespearean productions. There's something gross about watching a child lie for money.

This episode also reveals a little more about Salem's past; something I always found fascinating as a child. Salem had a follower who he promised control of Denmark to. I wonder how long they tossed around what country it would be in the writers room and if anyone had the courage to mention The Sudan or some similarly troubled state with a colonial past. Anyway the accomplice was also turned into an animal. He turns up to Christmas dinner.

The side plot involves H&Z inviting up a rich relative for Christmas dinner or something. I can't remember anything about it.