1899: Episode 2

2. The Boy

The Boy (Fflyn Edwards) is taken back to the Kerberos and stays with Maura. She tries in vain to squeeze any info out of him and finds a tattoo of an inverted pyramid with an intersecting horizontal line on his nape, similar to the logo on the envelope she received from her lost brother Henry. Eyk has the same envelope and starts having visions of his wife setting their house, along with their three children, on fire. Ángel sets his sights on Krester. One half of miserable French couple Lucien (Jonas Bloquet) takes interest in the geisha and is prodded by British socialite Virginia (Rosalie Craig) while the other half, Clémence (Mathilde Olivier), gets entangled with Jérôme, who is finally caught by the ship’s crew. The mysterious survivor introduces himself as Daniel (Aneurin Barnard) to Maura and later leads Krester and Tove’s young sister to him via his gold and green scarab beetle. Her petrified body, eyes wide open, is later found on deck. Eyk decides to turn the ship around and tow the Prometheus back to Europe against the passengers’ wishes and the company’s order to sink it.

And then they bonked each other. Apparently, "brother" Ramiro is not Ángel’s brother. Not a Spaniard. Not a priest. So who is this Portuguese servant in his “brother’s” life then? Gay lovers running away from intolerant 1899 Spain to find freedom in America. Sounds legit. But let’s not get sidetracked by all the bonking. The insignia of the pyramid with the intersecting horizontal line just floods this episode, from the carpet motif all the way to The Boy’s tattoo. Coupled with the official poster that clearly depicts the Bermuda Triangle, I really believe that the premise has something to do with it. Digging for more clues led me to the names of the ships. Prometheus stole fire, gave it to mankind, and was punished for it while Cerberus is the giant three-headed dog guarding the gates of the Underworld. And so my wild theory for now is that Prometheus found hell (Bermuda Triangle) and Cerberus was sent there to guard it. In any case, I’m 100% sure colored flat TV screens did not exist in 1899, so this might just be a reality show after all! A social experiment? A post-mortem historical study? That twist caught me off guard, I swear. Mind. Defo. Fucked. Send Aspirin.

“Aber ich sagte ihr, man kann niemanden, der das Meer liebt, ans Land binden. Man muss ihn gehen lassen. Und wenn man Glück hat, dann schwemmt die nächste Flut ihn wieder in deine Arme.” –Nina

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