Dominique Provost-Chalkley

Widows, Witches, Wishes, and Wynonna

Posted on 15/08/2017 by pixel51August 16, 2017

WYNONNA EARP – Season 2 Episode 10 – SPOILERS

Faux Mercedes (Dani Kind) preparing to torture Nedley for information.

The Purgatory Poachers have been county curling champions for six years in a row, in sharp contrast to Purgatory’s hockey team which wins infrequently and then only with demonic assistance. Nedley hides the third seal in his favourite mug (which has DAD written on it and was likely made by his daughter Chrissy in shop class). Jeremy named his favourite coffee mug Optimug Prime. (It is no more, having been accidentally broken by Waverly.) Doc somehow knows that Nicole Haught’s hat size is “barely a seven”, while Sheriff Nedley wears a seven and three quarters. Wynonna identifies herself to the doctor attending Nicole by flashing a badge. Pretty sure it’s the first time we’ve seen Wynonna do that.

Nicole’s cat, Calamity Jane

Rosita causes Dolls, Doc, and Waverly, to come into conflict with Wynonna. Doc, who is newly mortal, shows his support for Rosita by kissing her in front of Wynonna, who is trying to intimidate the revenant into being a test subject in the development of an anti-venom that will cure Nicole (and being quite nasty about it). Rosita submits to being exposed to the venom (which cannot kill her, but is still quite painful). As soon as Waverly finds out about this, she intervenes, saying, “This is not who we are.” Dolls, who is part demon, and better able to withstand the pain, replaces Rosita as experimental subject.

Rosita (Tamara Duarte) grimaces as she inserts the needle in her arm in Jeremy’s lab.

Despite Wynonna’s instructions to the contrary, Waverly locates Doc’s ring (on orders from Dolls) and gives it to faux Beth, who immediately heads to the site of the burned church to attempt to release her husband. To find that ring, Waverly makes a deal with a witch without reading the fine print, and Nicole is cured, but as a result, Doc once again finds himself at the bottom of that well and Wynonna vanishes into thin air.

In return for enabling Waverly to find the cure, the Iron Witch, Gretta Perley, (the twin sister of Maddie the Blacksmith) gets whatever she wants. She chooses to invoke the Marzaniok from Episode 2.3 and to wish Wynonna out of existence. (She uses the word verschwinden, which means “disappear”.) No one remembers that Wynonna Earp was ever there, and just where she might have gone is a mystery. Doc is not one of the witch’s targets, but when he grabs the trophy as Gretta is making her wish, he vanishes and is deposited at the bottom of the same well that the Stone Witch once put him in. (Perhaps Doc should steer clear of witches.) We don’t know if anyone remembers that Doc exists, but when he gets out of that well, Doc will be the only one (other than the Iron Witch) with any memory of Wynonna.

Sheriff Nedley (Greg Lawson)

Reality has been altered, but in a limited and local way. Jeremy has not vanished, though his arrival in Purgatory was indirectly caused by Wynonna. The reason for his being there may have changed, but he’s still there. That seems to imply that no one else leaves Purgatory, but people’s relationships to one another change. Waverly and Jeremy are planning a wedding, but just who is getting married is a mystery.

Doc restrains faux Mercedes as Wynonna prepares to extract venom.
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When Doc gave up his immortality by giving Wynonna his ring, he may also have lost his luck. He plays poker with a revenant named Stevie (Reamonn Joshee), and loses every hand. (Stevie’s winning streak drives the other two players out of the game.) Doc, who displays a previously hidden talent for deductive reasoning in this episode, figures out that Stevie might be there, not just to play poker, but also to have a look around the basement of the bar. Maybe Bobo left something important down there, and sent him to find it. (Doc still doesn’t know that Bobo is back.)

Dominique Provost-Chalkley and Rachel Ancheril

Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) asks Gretta (Rachel Ancheril) to help her find an antidote to the idows’ venom.

The commemorative plate from Episode 2.4 is made of metal. Wynonna asks what kind of metal it’s made of, and though we don’t hear Dolls answer (if he gave one), Wynonna says, just before she disappears, “I know what to do.” The plate was returned to Dolls by The Order for use as a weapon against the Widows. Such plates are often made of iron, and Nicole, after being bitten by the Widow, had too much iron in her blood.

Nicole, we find out, is married, and never got around to getting a divorce. Her wife’s name is Shae (last name unknown). She’s a doctor who likes rock climbing, and, one might assume, country music, because she explains to Waverly that she and Nicole “got married in a fever”. She does not say “hotter than a pepper sprout” but you know that song is in her head.

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Dominique Provost-Chalkley and Clark Backo

Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) and Shae (Clark Backo) at Nicole’s bedside
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Clark Backo (Shae) will be Patience Turner in the pilot episode of WAYWARD SISTERS, a proposed spinoff of the long-running CW series SUPERNATURAL, which tells the story of Sheriff Jody Mills (Kim Rhodes) and a group of troubled young women, all of them orphaned by supernatural tragedy. Turner is a high school student who discovers she’s a powerful psychic. Under Mills’ training and protection, the women develop into an effective monster-fighting force, and, unlike the original series, which centers on biological brothers, WAYWARD SISTERS is about a sisterhood of girls in a foster family. The pilot will air as an episode of SUPERNATURAL during that show’s 13th season. (Backo is listed as appearing in episodes 13.3 and 13.10.)

SHOWCASE ALBERTA: UP CLOSE & INTERACTIVE WITH WYNONNA EARP, will feature a Q&A with showrunner Emily Andras, producer & writer Jordy Randall and cast members Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp), Tim Rozon (Doc Holliday), Katherine Barrell (Officer Haught) and Greg Lawson (Sheriff Nedley). The event will take place 30 September at 2pm at Cineplex Eau Claire in Calgary, and will be live-streamed for those who can’t attend. Tickets are $20, and are now on sale.

Tucker Gardner (Caleb Ellsworth-Clark) and Poppy (Kiana Madeira)

Kiana Madeira (Poppy in WE Episode 2.6) will be Jess in G.L.O. (aka GIANT LITTLE ONES), a high-school drama about two students who were best friends since childhood until something unexpected happens between them at a 17th birthday party that calls that friendship into question. Written and directed by Keith Behrman, G.L.O. is currently filming in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Madeira is also Brooklyn in several episodes of the web series BARBELLE, a female written, directed, and produced web series featuring a cast of queer characters, which follows the lives of a newly famous Toronto pop duo (played by Karen Knox and Gwenlyn Cumyn) whose record label explicitly requires them to do public appearances as a couple (which they once were, but are no longer). Without $15 million to buy out their contract our heroines are stuck in the most expensive fake relationship of all time. BARBELLE will be available on Bell Fibe TV in Canada as of 28 August. It will be on YouTube in the fall.

Bobo, Connie, and the Curse

Posted on 31/07/2017 by pixel51July 31, 2017

WYNONNA EARP – Season 2 Episode 8 – SPOILERS

Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) contemplates her DNA analysis by the frozen pond from which Bobo rescued her many years previously.

With the aid of a pentagram, Peacemaker, and Wyatt Earp’s badge, Wynonna goes on what Juan Carlos calls a spirit quest. She has an out of body time traveling experience and learns how Bobo Del Rey became a revenant, where the third seal is hidden, and who the widows are. After being rescued from the burning church that housed the pentagram, she dies for seventy-seven seconds, and then is revived by either someone from the local fire department (The Order), or Dolls (it is not clear which).

When the Earp heir dies, all the revenants he or she has sent to the underworld return. Wynonna was dead for 77 seconds, and there are a total of 77 revenants. (There seems to be no reason for this bit of numerical synchronicity, as some of the revenants were alive, and some were dead at the time Wynonna died.) All seventy-seven revenants should be alive again now. This includes Killer Miller who brought the darkness in Episode 1.2. Miller comes to mind because Doc Holliday treats us to a (most likely apocryphal) story about how Miller was “filled full of lead” by Wyatt Earp.

Jessica Sipos as the young Constance Clootie, seen here in conversation with the dying Robert Svane. Apparently witches do age, but slowly. Also their eye colour is subject to change.

Ambrose and Levi, the romantic revenants from Episode 1.5, will also have returned. Maybe they’ll get together quickly, stay far away from the heir, and live a long and happy life together. There’s Jonas, the fellow who might be the father of Wynonna’s kid, who was just put down in the previous episode. He’ll be back to boast and make trouble for Wynonna. And then there’s Bobo, whom we actually see come to life again.

Bobo (Michael Eklund) was inadvertently killed by Peacemaker. Sometime in the 1880’s, Purgatory’s Sheriff Clootie, a demon, was using him as a human shield against Wyatt Earp’s bullets. Svane told Wyatt to take the shot, and the bullet passed through Svane and into the Sheriff. The Stone Witch tells Svane that he is included in the curse on Wyatt’s descendants. This may or may not have been true (the curse was cast by the Sheriff, not by Constance). It is implied that Svane might have avoided the curse had he committed a truly selfless act and helped Doc escape from the well, but he was jealous of Doc’s friendship with Wyatt and instead tried to trick Holliday into giving up the ring that gave him immortality.

A very cold looking faux Mercedes (Dani Kind) confronts Juan Carlos on a snowy road.

The sheriff did not die, could not be killed, and so was buried alive behind three magical seals (the last of which is the ring Doc wears) by his wife, Constance Clootie, who apparently did not like her husband very much. The widows are Sheriff Clootie’s other two wives, and they are trying to find and break that third seal to release him.

When Dolls insisted that Wynonna shoot Hypnos (in Whiskey Lullaby, Episode 2.6), it seemed that Wynonna began to realize that some demons are maybe not as bad as others, and that it might not be necessary to kill all of them. (When Nicole and Waverly did not track Poppy (Kiana Madeira), the cleverly named daughter of Hypnos, when she ran off, Wynonna told Waverly: “She’s not the enemy.” It might be that the ability to form alliances with some demons and possibly some of the revenants is central to eventually breaking the curse, but such an approach might precipitate conflict with Dolls.

Doc (Tim Rozon) prepares to leave for the salt flats. He does not know that the Stone Witch has been killed by Tucker Gardner. (One wonders how Tucker knew where the witch was buried.)

Waverly needs to know her ancestry, so she has her DNA tested. Nicole makes the mistake of trying to keep the results from her, and the two have a bit of a falling out.

From Waverly’s reaction to her DNA analysis, we can assume that she is not a blood relative of the Earp family. (She has only Wynonna to compare her DNA to. The test should tell her if she and her sister have the same mother, but a different father, or if they are entirely biologically unrelated.) Waverly has some sort of connection to Bobo, and Wynonna might paradoxically have created that connection while time traveling. (She told Bobo, then known as Robert Svane, that Waverly was his “angel”.) Bobo’s relationship to the Earp sisters is complex and still not fully understood. He rescues Waverly from an icy pond, tricks her into burying a talisman that allows The Seven to attack the Earp Homestead and kidnap Willa. Then he falls in love with Willa. He might be Waverly’s father, but even if he’s not, he probably knows who is.

Faux Beth (Meghan Heffern) opens wide as she prepares to bite into Juan Carlos

It seems unlikely that Waverly will turn out to be a key of some kind created by The Order.

The death of Juan Carlos (Shaun Johnston) is the latest in a series of departures of older characters on the show. Shorty and Judge Cryderman died in Season One. Gus hasn’t been seen since she sold the bar to Bobo, and Sheriff Nedley has announced his intention to retire.

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Rayisa Kondracki, Brett donohue, and Kara Kilmer

Brett Donohue, Kara Kilmer, and Rayisa Kondracki on the set of SLEEPER

Rayisa Kondracki (Constance Clootie in WE Season One) is Anna in the made-for-TV thriller SLEEPER, the story of Jennifer (Kara Kilmer), a woman who begins to question who her husband Freddy really is after seven years of marriage. After a miscarriage, Jennifer begins to question whether the spark may be gone. Then Jennifer catches Freddy in a few minor lies, and when a sudden accident throws Freddy into a coma, a larger story begins to unfold, making her question if she ever really knew the man. Filming in Montreal was completed in June. Broadcast details have yet to be confirmed.

New Touch, an unreleased song by CAVEBOY, is playing in the background when Rosita arrives at Shorty’s with the piñata. The group plans to release their next album sometime in the fall, and “New Touch” will probably be on it.

Caveboy (Michelle Bensimon, Isabelle Banos, and Lana Cooney)

Peter Skagan (Shorty) is Mr. Cravens in DEAD AGAIN IN TOMBSTONE, a film in which Guerrero (Danny Trejo) returns from the dead once more to protect a stolen relic which has the potential for creating hell on earth from getting into the hands of a gang of renegade soldiers. Marnie Madden (worker #1 in Episode 1.5) and Gwyn Auger (party guest in Episode 1.13) make uncredited appearances in the film, which will be released directly to DVD and Blu-Ray on 12 September. DEAD AGAIN IN TOMBSTONE (the first sequel to the 2013 film DEAD IN TOMBSTONE) can be pre-ordered from Amazon. A trailer is available on YouTube.

Faux Mercedes, Fire Breathers, and the ’52 Purgatory Fair

Posted on 03/07/2017 by pixel51July 3, 2017

WYNONNA EARP – Season 2 Episode 4 – SPOILERS

Wandering outside shortly after dawn, Dark Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) finds Dolls’ shiny dog tags.

The episode’s title, She Ain’t Right, might come from a song of the same name by Lee Brice that begins this way:

“She got her daddy’s tongue and temper
Sometimes her mouth could use a filter
God shook his head the day he built her
Oh, but I bet he smiled.”

In the fifties, Purgatory had an annual fair, complete with ferris wheel. These days, the town has a jazz club called Ba Ding, Ba Ding that seems to be run by demons, and (according to Waverly) the town is very close to getting a vegetarian restaurant.

The contents of Edwin Earp’s briefcase, a commemorative plate from the 1952 Purgatory Fair

The demon that possessed Waverly and the demons that replaced the Gardner sisters have distinctly different appetites. We find out that Waverly’s demonic possession can be transferred through a kiss. The demon had an opportunity (last episode) to kiss Tucker Gardner (Caleb Ellsworth-Clark) and transfer the demon to his body, but didn’t. It waited for an opportunity and transferred itself to Wynonna. The spirit of the black goo still hasn’t done anything terribly evil. It just seems to want to have fun.

Faux Mercedes (Dani Kind) discovers bacon.

The Gardner family demons, on the other hand, are quite nasty. They tell Tucker that he was the reason they chose his sisters for disguises. (They apparently peeled the skin from the sisters’ heads and are wearing it like masks. It seems that Beth and Mercedes must be kept alive for this masquerade to work.) Faux Mercedes tells Tucker: “You’re too angry and too dark to be locked up. You need space to let your darkness grow. We intend to nurture your prowess.”

There are many food references in this episode. Wherever demons normally reside, the food apparently isn’t so good. Faux Mercedes is amazed by the taste of bacon. The Black Badge courier handcuffed to Edwin Earp’s briefcase pilfers a croissant shortly before he gets his hand chopped off. Agent Haught is unhappy with her gluten-free pizza lunch. And what Grandpappy Earp hid in that briefcase is a plate. Sure it’s a commemorative one, but it’s also kind of food-related. Dark Waverly’s fondness for pilfering shiny things is discovered when Wynonna finds cutlery in her coat pocket.

Agent Haught (left) gazes unhappily at her lunch, a gluten-free pizza.
On right, the ill-fated Black Badge Agent carrying Edwin Earp’s suitcase takes a bite from a large croissant.

Edwin Earp‘s briefcase is made of a very durable material, and has a combination lock. The combination, however, is not very hard to figure out. it’s Edwin’s birthday (18 June 1940). Waverly was able to google that information, so why, once they discovered whose briefcase it was, couldn’t the fellow who stole the thing manage that bit of research? He could have used Wynonna’s phone to google Edwin, but it seems he did not have the patience. (Or perhaps he expected a more obscure combination.) All that was found inside the briefcase was a carefully preserved commemorative plate from the 1952 Purgatory Fair. Conflict over ownership of the briefcase resulted in two severed hands, one belonging to a Black Badge agent and the other belonging to Waverly. (Waverly’s grew back. Apparently demonic possession enables regrowth of limbs.) WYNONNA EARP is now tied with LOST GIRL in severed hands depicted with three.

Agent Lucado (Kate Drummond) directs Waverly from her SUV

Dolls breathes fire. Does he secrete a flammable fluid, or does he rely on methane buildup in the stomach for fuel? The spark could come from grinding his teeth, if he has fillings.

The upshot of all this is that Dolls is back to normal, as is Waverly. Wynonna is possessed by the spirit of the black goo, and can’t use Peacemaker anymore. The Gardner sisters, Beth and Mercedes, are hidden in a closet and probably in a lot of pain, while two facsimiles of them cultivate Tucker’s “prowess” (whatever that might be).

Crystal Chaitan as the cashier at the diner.

When Rosita (Tamara Duarte) made a pass at Jeremy (Varun Saranga) he declined (as expected), but he was very clear about not wanting to give Agent Dolls (who was on a cot across the room) the “wrong idea”. It seems that Jeremy might have a crush on Dolls.

Will Agent Lucado (who is now out of favour with everyone) try to capture Dolls to redeem herself in the eyes of Black Badge? Will Jeremy find true love in Purgatory? What will Wynonna do with Waverly? Will she hide her in the treehouse that Bobo once used for that purpose? If peacemaker doesn’t work for Wynonna, will it work for Waverly? If it does, will that prove she’s an Earp?

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Maureen Jones and Dominique Provost-Chalkley

Cujo (Maureen Jones) opens the dressing room for Waverly at Ba Ding Ba Ding

The WYNONNA EARP panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con will be Saturday 22 July at 2:30 pm in Room 5AB, and will include Melanie Scrofano, Tim Rozon, Dominique Provost-Chalkley, Shamier Anderson, Katherine Barrell, Tamara Duarte and Varun Saranga, along with creators Emily Andras and Beau Smith.

Maureen Jones (Cujo) will be Miss Townsend in DRAWING HOME, a film inspired by the true story of a young 1920s Boston debutante. Her future seems set: a dream life in the upper echelons of society. But then she meets a young painter from one of the most beautiful places on Earth, the Canadian Rocky Mountains. As their attraction turns their lives upside down, they soon face a universal question: Can one find “home” in another person? DRAWING HOME had its world premiere on last November at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. (The film was shot on location in Canada’s Banff and Yoho National Parks.) A trailer is available on Vimeo.

Sam Duke (Earl in WE Episode 2.2) is Ricky Caldwell in the horror/thriller EVERFALL, which is about 18 year old figure skater Eva Saint (Jessica McLeod) who, a year after being sidelined by a tragic accident, accepts an invitation from her coach to skate in a mysterious competitiion in the remote town of Everfall. Accompanied by her vlogger boyfriend and his cameraman, she embarks on what turns out to be her last chance at a comeback, but sacrifice will be required. A trailer is available on YouTube. Directed by John Kissack (who directed MIRACLE ON CHRISTMAS LAKE) and filmed in Calgary, EVERFALL is currently being submitted to film festivals.

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