Cult: "In The Blood" S1E2 (Review)

By Steve Belgard

The ratings weren’t that great for last week’s premiere of Cult, so we pose a question - - suppose the CW cancels the show. Could they just get rid of “the show within the show” and just keep “the show,” or cancel the “show” and keep the “within the show”? This query is entirely possible in the paranormal TV world, I guess. Yeah, some people have too much time on their hands, and as we know, the mind is a terrible thing to waste.

The first episode had the catchphrase “Hey, these things just snap right off,” and although they just say it once in this episode, this week we get “Who is Steven Rae”? or “You’ll never get to Steven Rae” (the fake show’s creator). Steven Rae is actually the “nom de plume” of the actual show’s creator/writer Rockne S O’ Bannon.

In our alternate TV-reality, cops find a buried, tied up upside down corpse, and there’s a flashback from seven years ago of former “family” member turned cop Kelly buried and tied upside down (probably her initiation). Kelly tells her partner that Grimm is sending her a message with this corpse.
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