Once or twice every episode, Syfys wackadooHappy!showed me something I had never seen before.
In that sense, Wednesdays season finale overdelivered.
2.A man put his foot into one bear trap, and then fell down onto another bear trap.
Credit: Syfy
3.Lobotomized kids wandered aimlessly through an underground lair of a monstrous child-catching Santa Claus.
4.That scary Santa was shot through the forehead.
Taylors style trends toward aggro-pop assault, extreme in mature content but also in Adult Swim-ish unreality.
Patrick Fischlers nefarious Smoothie was there, murdering a keytar.
It was a scene, man!
Meloni gave this M-for-Mature material a light touch.
The finale was a sometimes unwieldy attempt to wrap the whole season up.
There were some larger developments that could spark the already-ordered second season.
By the end, Happy had left his beloved Hailey behind, and rejoined Nick.
Theres the promise of further adventures for the pair, possibly relating to some of the threads (zombies?
the moral corruption of childrens entertainment?)
left hanging this season.
This seems to be the new model for a lot of genre shows in the binge era.
(Though, look, therewasa bug orgy.)
You felt that this finale was stretching to tie Nicks weird adventure up into an old-fashioned bow.
For all that cuckoo swagger,Happy!really just wanted everyone to be happy.
One moment from the final act worked.
(You try playing a sock puppet being tickle-tortured!)
The sock puppet nuzzled up against the dead murderous yuletide horror that once was his best pal.
For just one moment, the imaginary friend looked serene, and then was still forevermore.
Every sentence from that last paragraph is insane.
