Primal Season 3, Episode 7 Review - ‘Heart of the Undead’

Full spoilers travel for Primal Season 3, Episode 7, “Heart of the Undead,” which is disposable connected Adult Swim and HBO now.

What a chill opening mates of minutes we got this week, archetypal with the slow-motion humor rolling disconnected the moving Fang, and past the POV shots arsenic the dinosaur hurtles towards Mira’s colony with her injured mistress connected her back, yet culminating successful Mira being carried into a hut wherever she falls unconscious arsenic the camera fades to achromatic on with her.

Of course, not lone is Fang and everyone other disquieted astir Mira here, but they’re besides acrophobic astir the wellness of her unborn kid aft the onslaught she suffered past week portion battling those hog creatures. While watching “Heart of the Undead,” this really made maine ponder thing for a infinitesimal – and forgive however morbid this is… what if the kid of Spear and Mira who we saw successful the last moments of Season 2 isn’t the babe Mira is presently carrying? After all, Genndy Tartakovsky has already undone the decease of Spear which occurred successful that episode, truthful what’s to support him and his squad from diverting from what we deliberation we cognize astir the remainder of what’s to travel arsenic well?

Fang can't get past Spear's return.

But no, that’s not what’s going connected here, and soon capable the medicine woman, aft examining Mira, smiles astatine Fang and the small villager kid: The babe volition beryllium OK, and truthful volition Mira. (I mean, travel on. Sure, Primal is the benignant of amusement wherever successful its aviator occurrence it killed some of our main characters’ children, but having Mira suffer the unborn babe would beryllium a measurement excessively far… uh, right?)

Anyway, aft that tense opening, what this occurrence is truly astir is Spear’s realization that helium has go a monster… oregon astatine slightest a monster successful the eyes of astir everyone astir him, adjacent his erstwhile champion friend, Fang. This leads him connected a Frankenstein-ian travel – villagers with torches chasing him retired of town, spontaneous moments of literal self-reflection successful a reflector of water, and eventually, evident if transient death. The happening astir the Frankenstein monster, arsenic we each cognize – and present astir Spear arsenic well, it seems – is that these guys conscionable don’t dice that easily.

The happening astir the Frankenstein monster – and present astir Spear arsenic well, it seems – is that these guys conscionable don’t dice that easily.“

Except, Mira and Fang don’t cognize that, and by episode’s extremity they deliberation Spear is genuinely gone again, down that waterfall. They person nary crushed to deliberation that the connecting stream and waterways person taken his unconscious assemblage into immoderate benignant of volcanic hellscape, wherever skulls adorn spears and a weird-AF-looking man-creature awaits him. Why would they ever deliberation that!

Questions and Notes From Anachronistic History

• Funny however the villager who’s astir acrophobic – sweat rolling down his face, eyes watering – is the 1 to marque the archetypal determination and impale Spear. Ain’t it ever the case?
• The colony kid pantomiming to Mira everything that happened portion she was dormant is conscionable great.
• Notice however Mira is not blessed with Fang aft the T. rex rejected Spear again and led to his being driven retired of the village. Maybe Mira volition besides beryllium the cardinal to Fang yet accepting Spear again?
• That’s a messed up snippet of a flashback that we got to the zombified sauropod dying successful lava from Season 1’s “Plague of Madness.” There but for the grace of God, Spear…
• Blue and Red Jr. don’t get a ton to bash this week, different than beryllium cute and hilarious and ever-loyal to Spear. Their ma could larn a happening oregon 2 from them.