The Clearing Episode 6 Review: Hulu’s latest psychological crime-thriller is created by Elise McCredie and Matt Cameron and is based on In the Clearing by J. P. Pomare. The screenplay is adapted from the book by Elise McCredie, Matt Cameron and Osamah Sami. Jeffrey Walker and Gracie Otto serve as the directors for the thriller.
The main cast for the series includes Teresa Palmer, Miranda Otto, Guy Pearce and Julia Savage. It also features Hazem Shammas, Kate Mulvany, Xavier Samuel, Anna Lise Phillips, Mark Coles Smith, Harry Greenwood, Erroll Shand, Doris Younane, Claudia Karvan, Miah Madden, Gary Sweet, Alicia Gardiner, Matt Okine, Jeremy Blewitt, Lily La Torre, Ras-Samuel Welda’abzgi, Berlin Lu and Kristof Kaczmarek.
The producer for this series is Jude Troy and the executive producers are McCredie, Cameron and Walker with Richard Finlayson and Elizabeth Bradley. There are a total of eight episodes with the first six episodes out now. The runtime of each episode is 40-60 minutes. The Clearing Episode 6 is titled The Pied Piper.
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The Clearing Episode 6 Review: The Pied Piper
The Clearing Episode 5 served as Matriah aka Adrienne’s origin story and it gave a lot of perspective to the series and the origin of the cult. Following what happened in the last episode, The Clearing Episode 6 deals with the aftermath of Adrienne’s cult, escape and what happened following the raid.
We get to see that Adrienne was, in fact, captured and taken into prison. As Dr. Lathan was associated with Adrienne, he lost his job in this massacre. This event is unfolding in the past, while Amy aka Freya is pregnant, so one can say that some years have passed since the raid incident. A trial takes place for Adrienne and, the latter pulls all the right strings making sure that she can file for a mistrial, which she does. Eventually, she is let go (this is until they can redo the trial, of course).
In the present timeline, things are getting tense. We saw in the fourth episode, the signs that convinced Freya that Anton was behind the little girl going missing. She confronts him but, gets nothing. This pushes her off the edge and she rushes to the hospital to confront the recovering child. However, the meeting misfires when she hears a triggering sentence that is related to her time at The Kindred.
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Throughout The Clearing Episode 6, Freya is helpless in so many ways that it hurts to see her struggle. And, as she is fighting her demons, Anton, Adrienne and Dr. Lathan are on a different mission. The scary mission is bringing The Kindred back to life and, we see a scary glimpse of it coming true.
The Clearing Episode 6: Final Thoughts
The Clearing Episode 6 was a rushed episode. Not that things were not laid out properly but, the pacing was fast to build a sense of tension i the viewers. Especially the last ten minutes of the episode were terror, with Freya being triggered and discovering at the end what she does. However, there are certain closures the show should be offering by now, such as what happened to Sara. Given that it is not, it might be a part of the bigger and more major narrative in this show.
You can watch The Clearing Episode 6 now streaming on Hulu.
To read our review about the same, click here.