![]() Or maybe this is meant to be a nightmare, but not one where a razor-toothed clown eats you up but rather the kind where you feel like you're constantly being chased and the confusion is overwhelming. A variety of visual transitions, including vertical wipes and slow fades, and manipulation of focus continue to give the entire show the feeling of a waking dream where memories, imagined exchanges, and present-day activities seem to fold in on each other. ![]() ![]() Hawley's colorful, audacious, and object-obsessed aesthetic and the destabilizing editing style continue to work greatly to illustrate the hotbed of metaphysical and psychosexual subtext that lies just beneath the words that Hawley has written. Notice how even the difference in the names of the institutes underlines a desired break from the regimented intricacies of psychology and the past in the hopes of understanding time without constraints. Following his harrowing escape from the Division 3 lunatics, led by Mackenzie Gray's The Eye and his beautifully maintained fro, David is now spending his days at Summerland, the experimental institute for mutants run by Jean Smart's enigmatic Melanie Bird, where David begins to piece together memories from his childhood and his life before Clockworks in general. Indeed, much of "Chapter Two" involves getting ahold of where and when is David right now, and how he arrived at this point.
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