The Terror Beyond (2)

Episode Summary & Review

Summary

Doctor Fate and Aquaman rescue Solomon Grundy, intent on using him to help battle an ancient evil. The pairing of these heroes is an homage to the Marvel Comics superhero team The Defenders and the plot is based upon H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.[1] Hawkgirl’s atheism is shaken by Grundy’s sacrifice to recover his soul, and to a lesser extentby the reliance of Wonder Woman and Aquaman on their deities when in need.

Our Take

The second half pays off the Lovecraft setup with a genuinely apocalyptic scale, and Grundy’s sendoff lands harder than expected for a character who was mostly a brawler before this. Hawkgirl’s crisis of belief is the emotional core, even if Fate’s exposition slows things down. A strange, surprisingly moving hour worth seeking out.