The Path- "Messiah" - Season 3 Episode 6 Review

By Kaylynn Kasandra


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As someone who has never been ‘Team Cal’ I have to say, they are really starting to try to make him likeable. It’s quite annoying if I am being completely honest. I found myself getting frustrated at the fact that there was a character who actually makes Cal look sane. Harold is beyond crazy. I was not surprised even for one moment that Harold came back for the rings Mary had stolen. It was also not a surprise to me to see Harold completely lose his cool in the process of getting them back either. Cal is lucky to have had Vera is his back pocket to be able to clear that up. Unfortunately for Cal, he used his only favor up in doing so. I don’t think he caught on to her confessing that Steve was her father. But I am glad she dropped the hint. It’s clear she isn't trusting her mom much anymore. I’m not sure if Lilith has caught on to that yet.

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While on the topic of catching on, I can’t believe Cal has no idea what is in store for him as far as Mary goes. He truly picked his equal when he started hooking up with her. Now he’s married to this crazy and one kid deep. It’s been proven time and time again that she is just as dark and twisted as he is. Now it’s been solidified in this episode. I understand Mary needing to feel secure in the life she has now. She had a very messed up past. Her own father had been pimping her out prior to her meeting Cal. That will make anyone not trust those closest to them. So it wasn’t surprising to me to see her go back to tie up the loose ends she had left with her father. I was just surprised she was stupid enough to leave the needle she used to inject his fatal dose behind. And she was also careless enough not to notice the witness. I honestly can’t wait to see this blow up. It should be interesting to see Cal eat some humble pie. He thinks he is so in control, but really, he has no control and things are going to crumble.

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And I can’t be the only one who can’t stand this sudden change in Eddie, can I? I mean seriously, who the heck is this guy? He went from being so strong willed and such an independent thinker, to a sheep leading the flock. It’s sad to watch. He seems to be so obsessed with Meyerism he can’t see past the need to draw people to the light. I wish he could see all the signs around him. Clearly Sara is finally breaking down, which she was honest to him about, finally. But he’s still so blinded by his love for this God-awful woman that I’m sure he’s going to take her back. But I really hope he doesn’t. My guess, Vera won’t let it happen.

I was very sad to see one of my favorites, Hank, unexpectedly pass away. He was one of the most level headed of all the older Meyerists. And I loved how loyal he was to his morals, regardless of where they may put him in regards to the movement. His family always came first, including Eddie. Quite frankly he was Eddie’s strongest ally. I can’t imagine who Eddie will be able to lean on now. I would say Hawk, but, he’s pretty preoccupied at the moment. At least Hawk was spared the awkward pressure of feeling he needed to talk to his cousin about his new relationship with Caleb. I still can’t believe that is happening. I wonder how long it will take for that to come out into the open? No pun intended.

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I think there are going to be a lot of butting heads in the coming episodes. It was pretty apparent at Hank’s gathering that everyone is on their own page. I don’t think the strain is going to end with with Armstrong/Lane clans though. It’s only a matter of time before Sara talks to Eddie more in depth about what she had been researching. He will eventually be lead to Lilith, and I kinda think that is what she’s waiting for. Something about this woman is just bad new bears, and I really hope I’m wrong. But she seems very very, dark. She claims Steve was the one with the darkness and being with him was her worst mistake, but what if it was his as well? I really can’t wait to learn more about her true history with him. I really hope we get to. I hope Vera can learn some unbiased truth as well. It seems this poor woman has been brainwashed by her mom her entire life. It makes you wonder what kind of childhood she had. Let’s hope we get to find out more about that in the coming episodes as well!


Written by Kaylynn Kasandra. Awkward hippie who enjoys helping people, creating things, reading, sci-fi, fantasy, and Thor. Find more from her at
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The Path- "De Rerum Natura" - Season 3 Episode 4 Review

By Kaylynn Kasandra


This episode has me feeling so many things. If I were to be completely honest, the thing that concerns me most is how they are trying to make Creepy Cal likeable. We learned in the past seasons that Steve wasn’t the gloriously perfect leader the Meyerists like to believe. Cal has slowly come to terms with Steve’s inappropriate behavior towards him while he was growing up. To the outside world, Cal was the golden boy and apple of Steve’s eye, but things were far more sinister behind closed doors. Even if you’re not a fan of Cal, this is very hard to stomach. I can see how he became the sociopathic creep that we see now.

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I am nearly a thousand percent sure that Cal isn’t being sincere in his new developing relationship with Eddie. I think it’s pretty clear by Cal’s past behavior that his manipulation has no bounds. I think all the nice things he has said about, as well as to, Eddie is playing into whatever plan he has for his takeover. And to be quite honest, while he was using his own trauma to blackmail Vera I had a hunch she was his abuser’s daughter. She isn’t actually invested in the religion of the movement, but her reaction was quite defensive of Steve. Thus, giving me confirmation before the actual reveal came later in the episode.

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We were also able to see that the creepy bondage punishment that Sara has been so obsessed with was filmed in its early stages. And who was the one being punished in the film? None other than the founder of Meyerism himself, Steve. Proof that even he knew of his unnatural and inappropriate urges before inflicting them upon Cal. And it seems that Lilith, Vera’s mom, was the one trying to help him resist such urges. Even if she claims she never knew what the urge actually was. But the bombshell I found most interesting in all this was Sara’s mom’s claims that Lilith was a basketcase. I have a feeling that the comment she made is foreshadowing things to come. It could very well be linked to Eddie and Cal’s shared vision of the Meyerist bodies seen in the woods. Let’s hope that Vera grows a pair and abandons whatever crazy her mom may be a part of. 

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We see some other plot developments start this episode as well. It seems as though the interfaith leadership connection Joy made isn’t what she thought. The guy who she was giving goo-goo eyes to was doing the same to Hawk?! I have to say that really surprised me. I didn’t catch any clues leading up to that at all. It seems that Hawk didn’t either, but it’s hard to say if he is into it or not. We see him stand up for Joy and tell loverboy that it was not cool for him to ghost his dear old cousin the way he did. But, was that just his way of channeling his aggravation from not being able to speak to him alone about that kiss they shared? I guess we are going to have to wait on that. Meanwhile poor Joy seems to be approaching a serious rough patch between her broken heart and now her parents impending broken marriage. It should be interesting if this is what finally opens her eyes to the world the way Hawk’s have been opened.

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Overall, I am not sure things will be very positive for the Meyerists this season. All the secrets and skeletons in everyone's closet are going to be exposed. It seems as though Sara is finally seeing things for what they are and not the rose colored way she was brought up. It’s been interesting to see her and Eddie swap positions this season. I still don’t think her relationship with the professor is going to work in her favor though. She is way too trusting of this guy. She all but told him Meyerism’s biggest secret. The idea that movement could quite possibly have been built on lies and as she put it, “the urges of a sick man”. Yikes. This is not going to end well. I fear that Eddie will be addressing this scandal a lot sooner than anyone thought. Or God forbid, Cal uses Eddie’s new position as his son’s “spiritual father” against him. I would not put it past creepy Cal to accuse Eddie of doing the very thing that Steve did to him. I really hope I’m wrong about that.


Written by Kaylynn Kasandra. Awkward hippie who enjoys helping people, creating things, reading, sci-fi, fantasy, and Thor. Find more from her at
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The Path Season 3 Premiere! - Episodes 1-3

By Kaylynn Kasandra


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After what seemed to me to have been a lifetime, I was pleased to see that The Path returned with not two, but three new episodes. Having been ill, I was quite happy to have essentially three hours to binge watch. Let me tell you, the wait didn’t disappoint! Within the first few minutes, I was sucked in! Sadly, the pace slowed down over the course of the three episodes, but the premiere episodes didn’t disappoint overall. Seeing Eddie take on a super human role in the start of the return episode was pretty cool. I have not been shy in showing I am team Eddie, so I was glad to see others see how awesome he is.

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 I would be lying if I said it wasn’t more satisfying for me to see Creepy Cal squirm having had witnessed Eddie’s epic Daernerys (Game of Thrones anyone?) moment. Creepy Cal has been way too comfortable in his role as leader of the movement. Now he is so disturbed by Eddie’s new role he took Mary, their baby, and fled. In true Creepy Cal style he stole the very ideas and structure of the movement and rebranded it as his own. He used it for his own financial gain as well as to feel that power of leadership once again. It bit him in the ass though. Again, making me very happy as I watched it all unfold. His traveling life coach show gig landed him in quite the pickle: he became all but a personal slave to an ex-athlete with some serious issues. Being the assholes they are, Mary and Cal were completely fine extorting this severe mental case until it became clear how much of a physical threat he was to them. While all this was unfolding Cal was still dealing with all of his own issues. He tries so very hard to push it all down and ignore it. As always, Mary isn’t blind to it. But she also has issues of her own, which is sure to come back to bite them in the ass later this season. I mean seriously… what was she thinking stealing from that mental athlete dude? And his rings of all things? Come on!

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Now let’s delve into my next least favorite character, Sara. She still seems to be the same overly trusting, bad decision making, selfish jerk that she has always been. I can’t be the only one who watched these episodes thinking her new friendship with this professor is going to be her downfall this season. That and her new obsession with that crazy bondage therapy she and Cal tried together. Once again showing us they have no freaking chance of ever breaking up their ridiculous co-dependent relationship. I’ve always said Sara is just as jacked up as Cal, and I think this season we will get to see that more and more.

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While on the subject of hard to break habits, Eddie seems to keep making some as well. This time he has let this Logan kid blind him into thinking maybe, just maybe he’s like he was at his age. But after Logan began fighting with Hawk we see a change of heart from Eddie, and he’s quick to show Logan the door. But really, who he needs to be worrying about is Veda. His new publicist that seemed to come just as he came out of the fire. I mean who the hell is this creepy lady and her even creepier mom Lilith anyways? They keep insinuating she is like the snake who we kept seeing around Steve in Eddie’s visions. Even knowing they were bad news from the start I was still shocked to hear them talking about Eddie’s death and how it needs to happen so they can live. That’s some creepy stuff that I can’t wait to learn more about.

I really hope in this season we will see more from Hawk. It seems as though he has found his way in terms of leadership within the movement, which is nice. But, I need to see more. Whatever happened to him levitating in the woods? Are we going to ever go back to that, or is this just going to be something we keep ignoring happened? I don’t want to give up hope that Hawk is going to be the key to everything when things start to unravel. Which, I believe is going to happen soon seeing as our new friends are around and Cal is on his way back.

Let’s just hope Hawk doesn’t get all emotional this season when it really matters. He seems to do that. There are quite a lot of new things happening within the movement with how things are run. Especially with the interfaith connections being made. Let’s hope these bonds will bring more positive than drama. Because frankly, I have a feeling they will have their fill of problems coming their way this season.


Written by Kaylynn Kasandra. Awkward hippie who enjoys helping people, creating things, reading, sci-fi, fantasy, and Thor. Find more from her at kaylynnkasandra.com and
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