Prophets of the light.
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
The Path closed out its first season in a fairly quiet and mysterious fashion as Eddie began experiencing visions similar to the ones he had during his ill-fated Peru retreat. And with this more-defined tilt into the supernatural - which began last week with Alison's husband's journal - the series has now made a big move toward turning the number one doubter/denier into the movement's next true prophet.
A reluctant one though, hopefully. I'd hate to see Eddie fully give into these dreams and return to the fold so openly. He needs to fight this, kicking and screaming. Especially now that Sarah seems to be aligned with Cal's methods of bulls*** and deception. For a moment, she seemed thoroughly shaken by Cal's half-assed explanation regarding Steve not showing up because he'd become pure light, but by the end, after she caught Cal in his big wicked lie about Silas, she seemed more ready to grab the scepter and become the leader of a movement of her own design. With Cal under her thumb perhaps given all she knows about him now.
And so right at the moment when she's ascending to a position of power - with an actual fraud - Eddie might become the real deal. That's a nice twist. Granted, we still don't know how Sarah will react when Cal opens up about killing Silas. Will she turn Cal in? Will she just go with it? Is she now so broken that she's willing to accept keeping the movement alive at all costs? And what will Eddie make of all his visions when he's now taken such a harsh stance against the "fairy tale" aspects of the Meyerism? "The Miracle" definitely gave us some interesting Season 2 items to play around with.
Visions aside, most of this finale played out like a straight family drama. Agony over divorce, kids, lives in shambles. Nothing about it, necessarily, was steeped in cult-ness. It was just relatable pain. And I loved the moment when Sarah lashed out at her own parents after they told her everything would be okay. The two of them are so scarily numb to their old position on their other daughter that they now come off like brainwashed mouthpieces for the movement, incapable of empathy.
Most everything else about the finale felt like things settling in, falling in line. Hawk came back to the movement, Abe's daughter made a miraculous recovery, and Alison was allowed to return to the compound. Eddie's visions took us back to the pilot episode and reminded us that, even though he was on a drug, his visions still showed him things he couldn't have known otherwise. So even though he was tripping, he was being shown truths that were being hidden.
The Verdict
"The Miracle" took us out of The Path's first season with a story grounded in family pain and supernatural wonder. Will Eddie be swayed back into the movement based on his visions? They certainly affected him enough to send him down to Peru seeking the truth, so maybe he'll reach a point where he no longer thinks he's "crazy" and starts realizing that he may be Steve's successor. A solid, if not somber way to round out the season.
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