Main cast: Adam Fawns (Clay), Martin Huss (Dr Marvin Bell), Joanna Saul (Bronwyn), and Stephanie Zeit (Tasha)
Director: Jason Lapeyre

Ah yes, the “I woke up and realized they stole my organ!” urban legend. Given how ubiquitous that trope is, I’m surprised this one only comes up in the fifth Episode, The Harvest. 

Clay, a newly divorced man, decides to meet Tasha, whom he connected via an app, only to, yes, wakes up later with clear signs of surgery done on him and a scrawled warning on the wall to not call the cops or they will get his kids next.

Well, they took his kidney, and Clay doesn’t have a backup, so he needs to locate it and get it back within two days or he’s toast.

I have to hand it to director Jason Lapeyre, who also has a hand in the script: he manages to make Clay, who is supposed to be the bad guy here, come off as sympathetic, while the person that is supposed to be righteous because of what Clay did to them, ends up coming off as snotty and, worst of all, outright cruel and just plain nasty. 

Really, I don’t know what the intention of this episode is, because on one hand, it can be a grossly incompetent effort at showing me that Clay somehow “deserves it”, only to mess things in a horrific extent because this fellow ends up getting royally screwed over another person’s petty cruelty. On the other hand, it may want to make me sympathize with Clay, perhaps, and thus this episode may be making a statement about gender wars in a way that the MGTOW crowd will approve of?

At any rate, the whole episode is just an annoying because neither side is likable or sympathetic. Clay appears to be the victim here, mostly because the other side is far, far worse in comparison. 

In the end, I do wonder what Mr Lapeyre wants to do with this thing, but then again, maybe it doesn’t matter. This episode feels like an exercise in incompetent execution; the story as well as the characters aren’t memorable or interesting enough to warrant thinking so much about them. 

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