As this is the show’s final season, that’s probably a good thing with only eight episodes to bring everything together, there no sense wasting time on arbitrary subplots and character dynamics that aren’t going to influence the final outcome in any meaningful sense. With the war between the Barons virtually over and Chau ( Eleanor Matsuura) still missing, there’s not much to do for peripheral characters beyond fret about what’s happening with Pilgrim and Sunny. “Chamber of the Scorpion” felt, if anything, more focused than the first half of the season. ( Aramis Knight) is still a bit too pouty, but his sense of having been betrayed by Sunny ( Daniel Wu) and given a purpose by Pilgrim feels authentic and the roles of the Widow and the Abbots continue to waver as the Badlands’ status-quo shifts from one threat to the next. Pilgrim and Cressida ( Lorraine Toussaint) don’t seem to have an agenda beyond a genuinely unswerving belief in what they’re doing M.K. But what has always been consistent about it - and what is just as prevalent in “Chamber of the Scorpion” - is how it works in that flexible moral grey area between heroes and villains.

At this point fans of the show know what to expect, even if the show itself seems content to reinvent itself either in part or entirely whenever it feels like it. all this, and isn’t always communicated in the best possible way, but whatever. These two have a complicated history but it isn’t worth getting into it in brief, the Master wants to work with the Widow to thwart the upcoming schemes of Pilgrim ( Babou Ceesay), who plans to use the newly activated Meridian Chamber to rebuild the mythical city of Azra by creating an army of “gifted” fighters.

Into the Badlands has always been a show about longwinded, sometimes silly exposition and awesome, sometimes silly action, and “Chamber of the Scorpion” has both in spades - right from the start, actually, as the Widow ( Emily Beecham), perhaps the sexiest character on television, takes on the Master ( Chipo Chung) in one of those floaty wuxia scraps just to let returning viewers know what time it is.

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