Hello, Gasmii!
I hope y’all survived Thanksgiving and Black Friday and Cyber Monday and Powerball Wednesday all that other shit. Have you heard the good bad news that 666 Park Avenue has been canceled? I am devastated. (Devastated, I tell you!) Consequently, this will be the last 666 recap on the ‘Gasm. ABC will be running the last five episodes, but you will have to get through them on your own. I am so sorry about that! (Devastated, even. Or…not.) ANYWAY, let’s get to it, shall we.
Previously: Brian fucked an increasingly crazy Alexis. Gavin and Olivia’s dead daughter Sasha had a “falling out” with Gavin before she died. Our favorite Russian psychopath kidnapped Victor Shaw at Gavin’s behest. Henry tried to propose to Jane, but she decided she’d rather explore the sub-basement.
We open with Henry in front of a church handing out “missing persons” flyers of Jane. He has a flashback of Jane asking if they are going to be okay and now who feels guilty, huh, Henry? He puts the flyers on cars and has another Jane flashback.
I though Giuliani got rid of all the squeegee guys
At the Drake, Detective Cooper from a few episodes ago chats with Gavin and Olivia. He exposits that Jane’s been missing for 36 hours and they have no leads. Gavin offers to call the police commissioner because the New York City police commissioner clearly has nothing better to do than search for a ditzy blonde who dabbles in the occult. Henry comes in, despondent, and Olivia and Gavin say how sorry they are for him. Gavin says he will call in a top notch investigator – which I’m sure Det. Cooper appreciates – and Olivia says they will do anything they can to help.
Cooper says he spoke to Nona, who told him that she and Jane “split up” in the basement looking for Nona’s grandma that night and Nona doesn’t know what happened to Jane. All technically true. Henry suggests that Cooper follow up on the guy who tried to attack Jane on Halloween. Cooper says they are looking into it and Sad Henry goes up to his apartment where he mopes around all emo looking at the engagement ring he was going to give Jane. He says out loud, “Where are you, Jane?”
Sad Henry haz a sad
Times Square. Jane appears, proving my theory that the spiral staircase did indeed lead straight to Hell. At first, Times Square is completely empty, but then some ghostlike people appear and one of them says to Jane, telepathically, of course, “you shouldn’t have come here.” I say that to myself every time I end up in Times Square. The ghosts fade and it becomes normal Times Square with all the people and traffic and Jane is completely out of it. She calls out for Henry as she tries to cross the street.
Yup, tenth circle of Hell
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Legitimately, I’m sad about the show being cancelled. I do like it, and it was good to see John Locke and Vanessa Williams. I also think Nona is mad pretty. I bet they are so sad that the show is over.
But it’s for the best….a heroine as stupid as Jane could never hope to survive much longer anyway. And Henry is too boring to pull off the heartbroken or revenge-obsessed lover thing.
That’s a good question about Maris. If it had been me, when the staircase opened, I would have been like….actually, let’s go check with Maris about this and then we can come back.
No way in hell would I let someone I called a friend just enter a crazy ass hidden staircase in the bottom of a demon building.
Hence, Nona secretly hates Jane.
That’s okay, Nons. We all hate Jane.
I was disappointed in Shaw for falling for Gavin’s old tricks so easily.
I know his brain was rattled, but he really didn’t think that his estranged/dead father came back from the dead just to tell him to do what Gavin wants did he? So dumb.
And Alexis, Brian, and Louise need to wrap up their love triangle already. I’m really tired of them going back and forth. Their little arc should have been three or four episodes at most.
I’m boycotting ABC… they keep dancing w/ the stars on forever and a day, but cancel decent shows like 666 Park Ave… the show had promise, especially if they killed off Jane and Henry and replaced them with better characters. It has enough intrigue to keep me coming back for more, and enough stupidity (aka Jane) to have me talk to my TV like she can hear me.
I also liked GCB, and that was cancelled last year… DAMN YOU ABC!
I like this show and I’m sad it’s been cancelled. It did feel really flat at times, but it had so much potential. There’s so many things building up, and so many directions they can go with them.
I feel the same way, but I have to ask: Is it any surprise that this show has met the same fate that every previous show in that time slot on Sunday night the past few seasons has met? The only bedeviled thing about 666 Park Avenue is the time slot!
I’m disappointed that the show is cancelled as well. I agree that the show could have potential if they had killed off Jane and Henry and brought in more life-like characters to replace them (that would have been easy to do, since the show is really about the building and not them). I love Vanessa Williams and Terry O’Quinn so I’m sad I won’t see the two of them together on my screen anymore. I won’t bother reading the recap since we won’t be getting the final 5, so what’s the point?
I loved this show and will miss it and your recaps. I’m surprised you didn’t stop recapping at the mid-season finale. The cliffhanger was really good.