Every Sunday, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episode of the week for December 10 through 16 is “Unworthy,” the second season finale of Fox’s The Exorcist.
I watched “Unworthy,” the finale of The Exorcist’s terrific second season, with a gnawing pit of dread in my stomach.
The dread wasn’t due to my anxiety about what might happen. It seemed reasonable to assume the series’ central priests would live to exorcise another day, while season two’s “family of the season” would be written out in either a bloody or heartwarming way. Nor did the dread stem from my concern over the show’s depiction of how demons might stalk us through the subconscious. For as inventive as The Exorcist’s portrayal of demonic possession frequently is, it still hasn’t quite figured out how to capture the moment when somebody actually sees a demon.
No, my dread was instead due to my certainty that this genuinely eerie horror series, which creates very real tension within the confines of network television, isn’t long for this world.
