‘Keeping Faith’ Recap: ‘Series 2, Episode 5’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode 205 of ‘Keeping Faith’.
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For the most part, series two of the AcornTV series, Keeping Faith, has been quite the harrowing affair. One that has pondered upon just how much a person can take trouble wise, since Faith Howells has indeed been dealing with crisis after crisis in this series, to the point where we’ve all been wondering… as to whether or not we are going to see Faith straight up collapse, mentally. Thanks to the incredible weight that she’s carrying upon her shoulders. But as it turns out, after several episodes of making Faith suffer and pushing her in ways we never thought possible, the next chapter in this intense saga, opted to finally move the story in a more hopeful direction.
 
Of course, it didn’t seem like that was going to be the case at first. Because this is a story that also saw Faith come to discover that her husband’s illegal dealings were far more intricate than she originally knew. Since there were some odd questions and inquiries revolving around Madlen’s family finances, the kind that were initiated by Evan and were likely tied to the Reardon’s various moves around town and that made it seem as though Faith was going to spend her time in this tale, dealing with more uncomfortable truth and situations, especially in regard to the Reardon family. Since Gael continued to turn up the heat on Faith to close the Corran Energy deal post-haste. A feat that Faith wasn’t sure that she was capable of since no one at Corran was listening to her pleas or her offers. But oddly enough, while these sequences were tough and dark in their own right, they were actually the key to offering up some semblance of hope in this tale.

Because while Faith was investigating and racking her brain as to how she was going to get out from under Gael’s thumb, Evan was alone and doing his own thing and that allowed for us to learn that he was under a lot of pressure himself… primarily from the police. For DI Breeze was outright hammering Evan and demanding that he start to do something about Gael before bad things happened to him and his family. Which finally got him moving on making contact with Gael, so that he could provide Breeze with some kind of juicy intel to use to throw her in jail. Something that he succeeded at. In fact, he was so good at getting her to talk, that it was obvious that she was going to incriminate him further for more crimes that we didn’t know he committed, thusly motivating Evan to cover his tracks to keep Breeze’s ears from learning more about his involvement with this twisted family.

But what made this sequence so hopeful and worthwhile, is that for the first time ever… someone is holding Evan’s feet to the fire for what he’s done and someone is actually going after Gael with impunity and that likely means at some point, Breeze and the rest of the police are going to close in and put an end to Gael’s reign and well… if they don’t, it seems like someone else will. Because Steve Baldini couldn’t help but notice that Shane Reardon was starting to ask a lot of questions about his brother’s death and how exactly it went down. And while that didn’t exactly lead anywhere in this tale, the fact that there are cracks showing in the foundation of this family, is a wonderful sign that perhaps Gael can be defeated from within, and it will be quite interesting to see where this little nugget takes us in the series two finale.

Because alas, we are nearing the end of this second chapter in Faith’s incredible journey and well, it is wonderful to know that it likely won’t end in strife and sorrow. For there really is some magic brewing behind the scenes thanks to Breeze and Steve and it looks like Evan is finally about to get his just desserts. Simply because he’s failing miserably at leading a double life, and it is only matter of time before his comeuppance arrives and well, that means the time has come to dive into the finale. So that we can finally see if Gael Reardon can be defeated, and learn who killed Madlen’s husband and of course, to see Faith Howells standing tall once again once the dust settles. Because she genuinely deserves a slice of happiness in this life, and hopefully she finally gets a genuine taste of it once everything has come to a head in the next episode. Until next time.

Series 1 and 2 of ‘Keeping Faith’ are available to stream right now on AcornTV. Series 3 premieres on April 12, 2021.

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