​ "Mrs. Stanwick" and "The Island Family – Wrecked S03E09-10 Review

Okay that was mildly funny with moments of inspired lunacy. Which is about what we expect from a good episode of Wrecked. So all things considered, we got what we paid for.

Starting with "Mrs. Stanwick". The episode brought together the separated survivors. Owen beat Chet pretty handily but refused to take his life.

Jess managed to destroy the generator with a crowbar, and shocked her memories back. That shut down everyone's bracelets. Todd fought Martha when she arrived, and Pack hid in a way that I considered describing as "like a little girl", but realized that would be insulting to little girls.

Florence is still helping Karen... somewhere. They get to the circle and find Bruce, who is still alive. The others arrive and there's a funny, if pretty standard, moment where everyone shows up walking in slow motion. And Karen complains that if they don't speed it up, she'll bleed to death.

The survivors want to force Martha to lure Declan to the generator shack so they can ambush the Hunters. Martha refuses, and they try to torture her with battery cables and a four-wheeler. However, no one has the stones to do it, as Martha well knows. However, Danny accidentally knocks the four-wheeler into gear and it takes off, dragging Martha to her death.

Declan, the other three Hunters, and some generic guards finally come out looking for the survivors. They find Martha's corpse, and Declan reveals he and Martha were married. Hence the title. There's a mildly funny sequence where the other Hunters remember Declan never treated Martha like his wife, but then nods their heads and agree when Declan says he and Martha tried to keep their relationship secret but the Hunters must have realized the truth.

The Hunters catch up to the survivors and everyone runs off. Jess and Todd take out Brewster. Danny leads Owen and Danny to the cliff, and they try to hide on a ledge. The guard easily finds them and prepares to shoot, but Steve hits him in the head with a rock and knocks him into the water below. There's then one of those scenes where Steve describes how he fell into a crevasse and heroically struggled in voice over. The actual flashback shows him screaming in pain. Eventually he pees on his hand to pull it out from where it's stuck.

Everyone heads to the main house, and Declan and the Hunters follow them there. When the other Hunters worry the survivors will call on the radio for help, Declan says it won't be a problem. Cut to the survivors staring at the smashed radio.

Cue "The Island Family". Declan gives the survivors ten minutes to come out (because that's how long it will take the other three Hunters to take a dump, pop their knee and eat a power bar) and then he'll spare one of them. Owen gives a rousing speech that no one gets about how his last name is "Island", and all of the survivors' last names are "Island" because they're a family after everything they've been through together. Steve changes his name to Stewart, and Bruce admits that his last name really is "Island".

Steve then advises the survivors to fill the house with booby traps and practice their quips. The Hunters and their guards come in, and the survivors eventually take them out. Todd sets one on fire with a "molo-Todd cocktail", Jess and Florence jump Peabody and Florence grabs his rifle, admits she's a hypocrite, and shoots him down. Danny sets an overly complicated trap involving marbles, a tripwire, a bucket, syrup, feathers, and a fan... which manages to kill Errol when he slips on the marbles and breaks his skull open.

Brewster spots Pack, who attacks him with a trout. The Hunter makes short work of him and prepares to shoot, but Karen arrives with a crossbow and a quip. Meanwhile, Declan finds Steve, who aims Declan's wall-mounted elephant gun at him.

Turns out the elephant gun was just for show, so Declan takes Steve hostage and prepares to head for his plane. Steve stabs him in the eye with the chess piece he stole a long time back, and Declan falls to his death. Bruce can fly a helicopter, so they head for Declan's helicopter only to watch Chet take off in it. While giving a big dramatic speech that no one can hear over the engine.

Cut to sometime later, and a bearded Danny and Owen make a trek up the hill to where they have the repaired radio and a generator. As they argue about Michael Jackson (Danny didn't know Jackson is dead or a pedophile), someone finally responds on the radio. And... end season.

Both episodes made a decent finale to the series. Wrecked started off kind of weak, but slowly got better as time went by. They went from a weak parody of The Most Dangerous Game to inter-group conflict, to stronger parodies of… a bunch of stuff. I wouldn't say any of it was particularly cohesive: they jumped from Home Alone to Wile E. Coyote, from poop jokes to idiot jokes: Steve quips "chessmate" as he stabs Declan in the eye with chess piece. The ninth episode was written by Chris Kula, and the finale by the creators Jordan and Justin Shipley. Kula has always been a bit hit-and-miss, but the Shipleys always seem to have a grasp of the show's strong points. One gets the impression they're not around for the day-to-day show production, though. And when the cats are away, the mice will write mediocre episodes.

Where the creative team and the survivors go from here are anyone's guess. Everyone who started the season is still around, Chet is gone, and Bruce is still there. There's also several other survivors: members of Chet's tribe who came back with Danny and Owen. Even though they pretty much disappeared in the last episode.

The woman who answers Owen's mayday could be anyone: a black widow, another Hunter, an evil James Bond villain looking for an island base. Who knows? And hey, that last one sounds pretty good. I haven't heard if Wrecked has been renewed for season 4. Anyone? But I can't imagine the third season got any worse ratings than the first two seasons, and TBS brought it back for season 3. So I wouldn't be surprised if it comes back next summer.

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?

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And next week The Flash and Black Lightning start. I'll probably review one of them, so see you then!