Davon
- Episode aired Sep 4, 2022
- TV-MA
- 44m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
1.3K
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A young stranger suddenly wakes up in a dangerous, foreign town with no memory of how he got there. He must piece together fragments of his broken mind to uncover why the townspeople accuse ... Read allA young stranger suddenly wakes up in a dangerous, foreign town with no memory of how he got there. He must piece together fragments of his broken mind to uncover why the townspeople accuse him of murder.A young stranger suddenly wakes up in a dangerous, foreign town with no memory of how he got there. He must piece together fragments of his broken mind to uncover why the townspeople accuse him of murder.
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Mason Bienvenue
- Garen
- (as Mason James Bienvenue)
Brock Vickers
- Hesitant Father
- (as Brock D. Vickers)
Sarah Cool
- Longtime Survivor & Townsfolk
- (uncredited)
Drew Clavin Farmer
- Zombie Jules
- (uncredited)
Chelsea Reuter
- Melted Walker
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe dark lighting which serves as a through line across the episode is reminiscent of the early horror films of the twentieth century, where the villagers organize with torches and pitchforks to seek out to hunt and kill the "monster" of the story.
- Crazy creditsA motion picture that was captured on film stock which was grainy and bubbling away to the point of disintegration due to close exposure to the projector light. The contents of which were a "Walker" moving in the direction of the "screen".
Featured review
The audience have a hard time believing that anyone who paid even a little attention to the events of the episode needed its message spelled out so plainly
In a small town in Maine, Davon awakens with a head wound and temporary amnesia and shackled to the corpse of a woman named Amanda. After putting Amanda down, Davon hallucinates Amanda talking to him, accusing Davon of murder. In flashbacks, a wounded Davon arrives in town seven weeks earlier and he is taken in by Amanda and her sister Nora with whom he develops a romantic relationship. In the present, Davon finds a zombified boy in Amanda's basement and puts him down before being captured by the townspeople who accuse Davon of murdering their missing children and attempt to execute him. His memories slowly returning, Davon remembers finding Nora's son Garen who escaped while Davon fought off, shackled himself to and accidentally killed Amanda in self-defense when she tried to kill him. Escaping his execution, Davon finds Garen with Amanda's son Arnaud who has been kidnapping and murdering the town's children, convinced that he is sparing them from the horrors of the world while Amanda had been protecting her son. Finding the reanimated bodies of two of Arnaud's victims, Davon summons the townspeople and exposes Arnaud while Garen exonerates Davon. The enraged parents feed Arnaud to his own victims in revenge and the disgusted Davon leaves town.
The episode does its best to immerse us in Davon's jumbled point of view by careening constantly between flashbacks and the present day, but in the interest of clarity, let's lay all this out in chronological order: Seven weeks before the episode begins, an injured Davon is rescued and healed by the small, apparently peaceful community still residing in Madawaska. The group's leader, Amanda, is obviously bad news; this is the kind of person who says stuff like "Sometimes murder is mercy" while grimacing and staring directly into his eyes without blinking.
Davon is either too dumb to recognize the obvious danger here or too distracted by Nora, a Madawaska resident with whom he enjoys an instant and mutual attraction. The budding lovebirds have an adorable postapocalyptic courtship - flirting over strawberry picking and piano lessons - that sadly unravels when Nora becomes convinced Davon has murdered her preadolescent son, Garen.
Yes: As Agatha Christie might have titled one of her lesser novels, there's a murderer in Madawaska. But the episode doesn't have a lot of time to introduce and resolve this whole mystery, so you don't need to be a Poirot to figure out the likeliest suspects. Amanda is creepy but so obvious she's clearly a red herring. But she does have a weird teenage son, Arnaud, who keeps talking about how his mother is the only person who loved and understood him.
We hear about all this in the past tense because - in the episode's cleverest bit - it turns out Amanda is the zombie handcuffed to Davon all along. When Davon stumbled into the murder basement where Arnaud had been bringing his young victims, Amanda tried to stop him and died for her trouble, leaving Davon on the hook for the kidnappings and killings. And with no one left to vouch for his innocence, the entire town is ready for his execution.
That includes Nora, whose distrust of Davon belies the fragility of her own mantra: "We decide who we are." The town has decided Davon is a child murderer - and by deciding (inaccurately) who Davon is, they have decided they're the kind of community that will murder an innocent person based on flimsy and circumstantial evidence.
Madawaska's baroque method of execution involves putting Davon in an old car, crushing it with a bulldozer, then letting zombies feast on him. Like the board game Mouse Trap, it is a bizarrely elaborate way to do a relatively simple thing, and it gives Davon plenty of time to escape without too much hassle.
With his memories restored, Davon confronts Arnaud, who mounts his defense for why killing kids is actually a moral good. Growing up in the zombie apocalypse makes you twisted, he warns. By killing the kids, he says, he's saving them from a lifetime of awful things they'll need to do to survive. He finishes this weird little speech with a familiar line - say it with me: "Sometimes murder is mercy."
Davon is not convinced. Neither is the rest of the town, who finally figure out the truth. And in a stab at a poetic execution that is at least more practical than crushing by bulldozer in a car, Arnaud is tossed into a nearby pit where the children he killed have come back as zombies.
This is Davon's chance for a big speech, and he doesn't waste it. "We don't have to live like this! We don't have to be like this! We decide who we are" he shouts. It was probably fun for Usher to cap off his performance with this big, melodramatic monologue, but the audience have a hard time believing that anyone who paid even a little attention to the events of the episode needed its message spelled out so plainly.
The episode does its best to immerse us in Davon's jumbled point of view by careening constantly between flashbacks and the present day, but in the interest of clarity, let's lay all this out in chronological order: Seven weeks before the episode begins, an injured Davon is rescued and healed by the small, apparently peaceful community still residing in Madawaska. The group's leader, Amanda, is obviously bad news; this is the kind of person who says stuff like "Sometimes murder is mercy" while grimacing and staring directly into his eyes without blinking.
Davon is either too dumb to recognize the obvious danger here or too distracted by Nora, a Madawaska resident with whom he enjoys an instant and mutual attraction. The budding lovebirds have an adorable postapocalyptic courtship - flirting over strawberry picking and piano lessons - that sadly unravels when Nora becomes convinced Davon has murdered her preadolescent son, Garen.
Yes: As Agatha Christie might have titled one of her lesser novels, there's a murderer in Madawaska. But the episode doesn't have a lot of time to introduce and resolve this whole mystery, so you don't need to be a Poirot to figure out the likeliest suspects. Amanda is creepy but so obvious she's clearly a red herring. But she does have a weird teenage son, Arnaud, who keeps talking about how his mother is the only person who loved and understood him.
We hear about all this in the past tense because - in the episode's cleverest bit - it turns out Amanda is the zombie handcuffed to Davon all along. When Davon stumbled into the murder basement where Arnaud had been bringing his young victims, Amanda tried to stop him and died for her trouble, leaving Davon on the hook for the kidnappings and killings. And with no one left to vouch for his innocence, the entire town is ready for his execution.
That includes Nora, whose distrust of Davon belies the fragility of her own mantra: "We decide who we are." The town has decided Davon is a child murderer - and by deciding (inaccurately) who Davon is, they have decided they're the kind of community that will murder an innocent person based on flimsy and circumstantial evidence.
Madawaska's baroque method of execution involves putting Davon in an old car, crushing it with a bulldozer, then letting zombies feast on him. Like the board game Mouse Trap, it is a bizarrely elaborate way to do a relatively simple thing, and it gives Davon plenty of time to escape without too much hassle.
With his memories restored, Davon confronts Arnaud, who mounts his defense for why killing kids is actually a moral good. Growing up in the zombie apocalypse makes you twisted, he warns. By killing the kids, he says, he's saving them from a lifetime of awful things they'll need to do to survive. He finishes this weird little speech with a familiar line - say it with me: "Sometimes murder is mercy."
Davon is not convinced. Neither is the rest of the town, who finally figure out the truth. And in a stab at a poetic execution that is at least more practical than crushing by bulldozer in a car, Arnaud is tossed into a nearby pit where the children he killed have come back as zombies.
This is Davon's chance for a big speech, and he doesn't waste it. "We don't have to live like this! We don't have to be like this! We decide who we are" he shouts. It was probably fun for Usher to cap off his performance with this big, melodramatic monologue, but the audience have a hard time believing that anyone who paid even a little attention to the events of the episode needed its message spelled out so plainly.
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- May 11, 2024
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