The queer, gothic, horror-inflected Western resumes on Tubi.
often explored across its queer, gothic, horror-inflected Western universe. The show, over the course of its four seasons on Syfy, always had its tongue firmly in cheek as it told stories about the titular Wynonna , the many-generations descended heir of Wyatt Earp, who returns to her hometown cursed to spend her life using Wyatt’s famous pistol to send the resurrected demonic forms of the outlaws he killed back to hell.
Wynonna and Doc, meanwhile, have been off having the most fun adventures of their lives, except that said adventures are simply a way of avoiding big conversations about their future and whether it makes sense for them to try and raise their daughter together—or whether they even work as a couple if they sit still long enough to wonder.
These are all good, meaty storylines for the special to engage with and solid continuations of plotting the show had set up in earlier seasons. The series may have sent its heroes off into the sunset with happy endings during its finale, but this is pretty fearless about poking holes in those happy endings in ways that make sense by reminding viewers that people, especially these people, are complex and flawed.
What proves a lot less satisfying is that all of those intriguing new character notes have to reach a resolution in one extra-long episode. Waverly and Nicole are not going to actually break up over this, but their conflict is barely established before it’s resolved. Doc storms out on Wynonna after a fight, then comes back with a vision of their potential future that’s so idyllic that it immediately becomes obvious it’s never going to happen.
The central conflict of the special may ultimately be that it’s both great to have everyone back and simply not enough.can’t provide the payoff that unspooling all of these ideas over the length of a season would. There’s a sense that it might have almost worked better with smaller ambitions, but that’s simply not how special-event programs work., particularly given how meaningful the show has always been for the people who loved it. But you also can’t quite go home again.
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