When one door closes on Haven, at least one more if blown wide open. And true to form, Thursday’s midseason finale, “Chosen,” did just that, shutting down the Mara/Audrey storyline while jumping off in a somewhat new direction.
Directed by Shawn Piller, “Chosen” picked up from last week’s story with a rapid-fire delivery of some key facts: Charlotte is 1,100 years old and is Mara’s mother. Mara, who is 600, became super-bad after being split from Audrey and doesn’t realize what a truly evil girl she’s been. Also? The mysterious aether is from the void between the two worlds and Charlotte and Mara belong in that other world. As a die-hard Haven fan, even I had to chuckle at the main storyline after I’d typed it. Only in this genre can stuff like that happen and no one bats an eye.
Anyway, Charlotte wanted to meet up with Mara and–with help from Audrey–perhaps the two could show Mara the err of her ways. And, if things worked out like Charlotte hoped, Mara and Audrey would become one again and the Troubles would stop. After all, Mara had said she turned off Duke’s leaking Troubles. (Raise your hand if you loved that exploding husband off the top of the episode. “I told you not to touch anything!” Good old Duke.)
Speaking of, the lanky lad was once again the odd man out in the situation, leaking black eye goo while seeing the gal he’d grown to have feelings for disappear. Now there is just Audrey, and Nathan has his love back. Duke, meanwhile, lost Mara and is in a very bad way. By episode’s end we’d learned that not only had Mara not turned him off like she’d told Charlotte, but he was exploding Trouble leeches out of his eyes. Now, instead of just a few people having them, it looks like every Havenite is going to be Troubled.
Like I said, only on Haven.
Notes and quotes
- “I’m about eleven-hundred in your years. Mara is six-hundred. Ish.”–Charlotte
- Turns out Dwight is into super-old chicks
- “Lady, I know problems and store-bought Kahlua is not a problem.”–Duke
- “I have to go to The Great Gull to pick up a body. With a sponge.”–Gloria
- Dave and Vince’s realization that the Croatoan massacre may have happened around Haven is an interesting twist, but there is still lots to cover in that storyline.
Haven returns in 2015Â on Showcase.
Thank goodness Audrey is just Audrey again!!! The Mara/Audrey storyline was getting on my very last nerve. I feel sorry for Duke after having been used by Mara to spread her evil plan of troubling the whole town of Haven. But this is Haven, and troubled citizens are the norm. Now we will have many more interesting “trouble” episodes in the next season.