'Channel Zero: No-End House' Recap - 'The Damage'

Written by Scott Edwards

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Getting back to the real world, Jules is starting to see that the damage the No-End House has caused may not be reversible. Seeing blank faces when she thinks about her family, she will probably never be the same again. Margot is in the same boat and after talking to her mother when she has gone missing for three days, she cannot place a face with the voice. But they are free of the house’s clutches, or so they think since someone from the other side has made his way into the real world as well.
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Walking down the street and seeing some of his daughter’s memories, Mr. Sleator needs to feed and soon. Stopping by a house and seeing two little girls playing outside, he is trying to find the right place to feed, but when the girls’ father comes out, he is forced to head back to his former home. Sneaking into the backyard, Mr. Sleator has a plan of attack when it comes to his daughter and causing a brief distraction to get Jules out of the way, he is able to take the memory of a pet from Margot and starts eating in peace, but little does he know that he is not the only one who has made it out of the house.

After a long conversation, Margot and Jules clear up their fight in the No-End House and while they may have been on the outs for a little bit, they will be friends forever. While Margot takes a nap on the couch, Jules notices that the front door is open and gets stopped by Seth who knows that Mr. Sleator has made his way to the real world. Stopping the formerly dead father from feeding, the group comes to a consensus that they need to get him back in the house. With no way of getting him to head that way of his own free will, Margot pulls out her old man’s pills and decides that poisoning him is the way to go.  

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Freeing the dead man from the basement to have a talk, Seth moderates the conversation between father and daughter. With new knowledge, Margot feels bad about putting him back underground, but it must be done this way since she will not enter the house again. As the allergy pills put Mr. Sleator down, Seth and Margot need to find a way to dispose of the body. Dragging the lifeless Mr. Sleator out of the house, Margot is surprised to see her mother has come to visit. Snapping back to life and searching for his daughter, Mr. Sleator makes short work of the others in the house, since only his daughter is able to feed him. Close to getting what he wants, Seth jumps into action and stops the transaction once again, but it may be too little too late.
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Seeing her friend on the ground about to be killed by her father, Margot is forced to make a decision that may change her life forever. Agreeing to go back into the house with her father and Seth, Margot leads the charge back to the No-End House and there is no way to stop her. While Jules stepped away from the house to try and get some memories back while the others killed Mr. Sleator, she comes back to find Mrs. Sleator working with the police to try and find her now missing daughter. Knowing that she cannot be part of the investigation, Jules makes her way back down the street, but when arriving at the location of the creepy magic house, it is no longer there for her.

Okay, they really messed up the story here and I am a little upset that they have spread this season out to be six episodes, when it would have been fine with the people exiting the house. My problem comes midway through the episode when Margot has no recollection of a pet that her father is eating in trade, but has no problem remembering her mother who he ate days ago in the No-End House. This does not pair up at all, but the memories might be getting partially eaten, but this is still a huge issue for people paying attention. The fierceness that is coming from Mr. Sleator is just nuts and I am surprised that he could have been locked away for any amount of time in the basement without breaking out. I was kind of hoping that Seth was gone, but now he will be the focus of the remaining episode to make things work. This will be an interesting ending coming up and while I have my doubts that my mind will be blown, I will still watch it, because the rest of the storyline is kind of intriguing. Stay Scared.

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