Review: Channel Zero No-End House 202
Channel Zero: No-End House steps up the chills with episode 202. Are we in the house? Did we make it out? What the heck is happening?
The second episode of Channel Zero: No-End House, “Nice Neighbor,” picks up where the premiere left off. Margot and Jules had left the house, but it becomes immediately clear that they did not have the same experience inside the house. Jules won’t talk about her experience, not yet, anyway. But she doesn’t really have a chance to talk because she soon discovered that Margot’s dad was alive and cooking omelets.
After a very strange conversation with Margot’s newly reanimated and no-longer-dead dad, Jules suggests that they’re all still inside the house. The flowers in Margot’s yard are different. Maybe they’re still in Room 6. Margot doesn’t want to hear this because she has a dark secret: Her father didn’t die of natural causes. He killed himself, and she’s the only one who knows. This is her chance to be with him again, at least for a little while.
As more members of the group emerge from the house, there’s no question that they all had very different experiences inside the mysterious house. For JT, the freaky “Gatekeeper” from Room 2 appeared in Room 5. He returns home to find that he’s already there. Indeed, the Alpha version of himself is there waiting for him, and he’s ready to take over JT’s life. JT wants to know what happened to his parents, but as it turns out the real question is what happened to him. This confirms that we are no longer in the world we once knew.
That would seem to be the theme of No-End House: The world that was outside the front door of the house is gone and the house’s visitors are in a completely new world after emerging from the back door. What happened in Room 5 seems to be setting the stage for their nightmares. In fact, everyone in “Nice Neighbor” is having a nightmare of a time outside of the No-End House (which has disappeared) except for Margot, who is getting a second chance with her father. The intriguing part is that her dad knows he was dead, and he vows not to leave her again.
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Nothing that we’re seeing is at it seems, and the story has been set up quite nicely for the rest of the episodes to explain what is happening. One thing is for certain: You can’t trust anything in Room 6 and surprises lurk around every corner.
Channel Zero: No-End House airs Wednesdays at 10pm on SyFy.