Harlan Coben’s Shelter Season 1 Episode 3 Review: The Dirt Locker

Ashley is alive, however the place the hell is she?!

Keeping up with the breakneck tempo for all of the twists and turns this sequence is throwing at us, Harlan Coben’s Shelter Season 1 Episode 3 was stuffed to the brim with revelations.

Of course, it additionally opened the door for a gazillion extra questions. This sequence is hellbent on conserving our heads spinning.

Is Brad alive or not? Who took Ashley and why? Why is Rachel being so shady? So all sides of the Shira, Hannah, and Ken triangle have touched in additional methods than one? Whew!

The sequence mix-matching the characters and the way the trio work together with one another are among the many most enjoyable issues to occur.

During Harlan Coben’s Shelter Season 1 Episode 2, we had a heavy dose of Mickey and Ema, and it was such a singular vibe. When Ema realized that she appreciated Mickey and dropped her delinquent defenses, we noticed this genuinely caring, supportive, nice pal.

But her vibe is totally completely different when she spends time one-on-one with Spoon. They play off each other so properly, and there is not a scene that goes by with these two that will not have you ever laughing a bit.

Mickey: How can we get that footage?
Spoon: Yeah, it could positively be actually exhausting to obtain each second of each surveillance digital camera the day Ashley disappeared… OK, so I downloaded each second of each surveillance digital camera the day Ashley disappeared.

Abby Corrigan and Adrian Greensmith have nice chemistry with one another. It’s one thing distinctly throwback and retro about their interactions.

It’s like placing The Breakfast Club’s Allison Reynolds and Brian Johnson in a room collectively and forcing them to turn out to be begrudging pals.

Spoon is pleasant sufficient to put on an individual down even when they weren’t so inclined to love him. And their power towards one another feels paying homage to completely reverse siblings who squabble and tease however genuinely take care of each other it doesn’t matter what.

They made plenty of headway collectively whereas Mickey was coping with private issues.

With Ashley’s locker empty, they got here up with the thought of accessing the surveillance footage round faculty and monitoring down all the pieces Ashley did on her final day.

It was no shock that Spoon might efficiently hack into the system, nor was it that he had his personal model of a Bat Cave within the faculty’s boiler room.

Spoon Spinell by no means ceases to amuse and is palms down my favourite character on this sequence.

Ema and Spoon found that Ashley had a run-in with the cheerleaders that seemed disagreeable. Later, they noticed that Sunglasses Man visited her locker within the wee hours of the morning when it was already empty and took the magnetic hippo.

Mickey: Guys, it’ll take us days to undergo that kind of footage; we must always take turns.
Spoon: I can take the primary shift. I’ve educated my academics to not count on common attendance
Mickey: You?
Spoon: I be taught after I wish to be taught, Mickey.

But their most vital discovery was that Rachel visited Ashley’s locker and took her belongings. She’s not who any of them anticipated, primarily due to how cool she had been enjoying issues anytime Ashley acquired introduced up.

With Rachel, we realized that her run-in with Octoface shook her up very well. He chased her out of the station, and she or he went so far as pulling the gun out on him after she fell and harm her arm whereas making an attempt to flee.

She was rattled sufficient that she missed faculty, so she had a tense interplay with Troy Taylor on the Bolitar house.

You might inform that it triggered her when Troy innocently grabbed at her in the course of their spat. Her violent response shocked him, however I nearly wished he had pressed extra, as one thing was clearly occurring together with her.

Now that there’s footage of her, she will not have a selection however to open up extra with the trio and be part of forces for no matter they’re going through.

Mickey was juggling quite a bit on a number of fronts, and the household side of the sequence is simply as sturdy and an incredible steadiness to the opposite parts.

Allen and Ellen have been cute. They have been so vibrant, they usually introduced a special power. Ellen was the quintessential judgmental mom, and from Shira’s notion, it sucked that she needed to cope with sturdy judgments about her life.

But you could possibly additionally inform that Ellen loves and cares about her household. She tends to return from a well-meaning place, and Allen amused along with his Dad jokes.

He and Mickey had a pleasant relationship, too, and the give attention to the dad and mom battling how they have been grieving Brad and having open conversations with Mickey when he discovered them was good.

It’s good to see a communicative and emotionally weak household throughout generations.

Ellen overstepped with inviting the Taylors to the operate when she knew there was a historical past. It was awkward to see Shira Bolitar and the Taylors attempt to work together, and Troy was chill-deficient, digging into their previous and being intrusive with no regard for the way his dad and mom or Shira would really feel about any of it.

Shira and Hannah’s interplay on the roof touches on the stress between them and implies that Hannah felt betrayed and deserted when Shira left city.

Shira owned as much as being egocentric when she was a youngster, and it appeared they put their points behind them with out having to delve into all of the nitty-gritty.

But the true shock got here when Hannah returned to the home later and kissed Shira. With extra context, the 2 have been most likely in love, and Hannah was heartbroken when Shira left city and by no means seemed again.

Somehow, she retreated into herself and ended up on this relationship with Ken, which is bizarre. If neither girl cherished Ken, they usually cared about one another, why have been both of them with him?

If they have been conserving their relationship a secret for apparent causes throughout their teen years, that is comprehensible. However, Hannah’s option to marry and stay married to Ken is weird. They are freaking Shira and Hannah, and he is simply Ken. Be for actual!

Bat Lady: We will do what we should.
Sunglasses Man: But?
Bat Lady: I’m unsure everybody will survive.

Perhaps she felt like being with Ken was like having a bit of Shira. Regardless of what was occurring, it was stunning to find that they have been lovers, and primarily based on that makeout session within the kitchen, they have been greater than content material getting reacquainted with one another.

I notoriously despise dishonest arcs, however a lady would possibly make an exception for this one as a result of take a look at them! I ship Shira and Hannah like Fed-Ex. Also, kudos to this sequence for being so casually and effortlessly queer.

It was a stable installment for Shira, an intriguing, complicated girl from the scenes we get of her. Seeing her bonding and speaking with Mickey whereas they performed basketball was pretty.

And he realized that her reservations about Brad and Kitty’s relationship weren’t rooted in her worry of Kitty’s psychological sickness. She felt like her brother had given up his desires of being with Kitty, after which he was gone and seemingly absent from their lives.

Part of the problem is that Brad was concerned in covert work that he alluded to when he and Mickey needed to depart their tenting journey early.

Your mother and I do vital work, and we assist individuals who can’t assist themselves. But doing the appropriate factor does not make you proof against the badness on this world, and my job is to observe for it and keep in entrance of it, and when that fails, my job is to guard my household.

Brad

We’ve heard a number of occasions how Mickey stated his dad and mom “helped people,” however there’s little context in regards to the particulars of that help.

Whatever the case is with their work, Mickey cannot precisely attain out to his mom for solutions now that she’s again at a psychological facility with no contact.

It’s no surprise he sought out Bat Lady for extra solutions. And as a substitute, we acquired a convoluted story about how she’s Lizzy Sobeck of the folklore in regards to the younger lady who rescued a prepare of youngsters set to go to Auschwitz through the warfare.

The butterflies got here into play throughout each variations of that story, and Bat Lady’s connection to Mickey was of their father each getting killed by the identical man.

How the scar-faced EMT on the accident scene could also be The Butcher who slaughtered individuals when Bat Lady was a child is past me!

If Bat Lady and Mickey are related that means, it is 100% possible that Dylan’s disappearance is related to Ashley’s, even when they vanished on the identical day, 27 years aside.

Shockingly, we acquired our first glimpse of Ashley since she vanished throughout Harlan Coben’s Shelter Season 1 Episode 1.

In the previous, she was there, eavesdropping when Brad informed Mickey about serving to individuals and stated they wanted to depart on the campsite.

She was within the woods, for some cause, again then. And somebody took her.

Now, wherever she is, she’s reflecting on the friendship she solid with Mickey, and she or he has the identical blue butterfly tattoo on her shoulder that Ema has, and on the identical facet, too.

Because this model of the butterfly was all the time meant to symbolize safety and one thing lovely and significant, then whoever is behind all of this should really feel they’ve good intentions.

Perhaps, since Brad stored talking about defending and serving to, it is one thing to which he is been related, presumably because the day he acquired pulled into that home as a child.

Bat Lady: It takes energy to dwell within the darkness to do not forget that darkness precisely the way it was. Not everybody can. Question is, are you able to, Mickey?
Mickey: I’m prepared.
Sunglasses Man: He’s not prepared.
Mickey: I’m.

The flashback reveals that Ashley was searching for Mickey out for a cause, however what was it?

And if she’s okay, why will not she attain out? Bat Lady does not know the place she is or who she’s concerned with in the meanwhile, explaining why Sunglasses Man was looking for no matter he might on Mickey’s pc. 

But because of this there’s one thing larger at play than what anybody thinks relating to Bat Lady.

It’s a lot larger than these gamers. Getting to the underside of Octoface’s id is vital.

Over to you, Shelter Fanatics. Were you shocked to see Rachel? Did you see that Shira/Hannah twist coming? Sound off beneath!

All-new episodes of Harlan Coben’s Shelter stream Fridays on Prime Video.

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