A wonderful conclusion to the first arc. Isabella is throughly defeated, Emma and the kids escape, and even Ray is redeemed at the end, changing from his realist mentality to adopting the idealism that drove Emma and Norman to escape with everyone they could.

We get some more backstory on Isabella during her time as a child at the farm, that shows everything she’s done to merely survive. If the information revealed by Sister Krone didn’t do so already, Isabella’s backstory drives it home even further that she’s a dark mirror of Emma and that only looking out for yourself in the world only perpetuates the violence of the farms and keeps the demons in control.

From here on out I’m going in blind, since season 2 hasn’t come out as I’m writing this. I’m looking forward to seeing how the Gracefield Children survive in this new fantastical landscape.