Review: Krapopolis “Please Demeter”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

After an argument with Deliria, Tyrannis summons the goddess Demeter to help with the harvest, but things begin to escalate in a rather weird way. Sexually. Meanwhile, Hippocampus poisons Stupendous on the brink of death so she can settle a fight with an old rival. Not sexually.

OUR TAKE

Okay, cool, looks like we’re starting a streak of pretty solid episodes, because this actually carries on from what I was talking about last week about the show seemingly finally making good use of its weird setting and unique character dynamics. This week we have the main character hooking up with a goddess of all things, while his siblings try to play with the definition of being dead by getting Stupendous to “visit” the river Styx for a little bit in order to face an old friend in combat one last time. Once again, these are both plots that only Krapopolis could do, so it’s good it’s doing them. The main plot focuses on Tyrannis who, for the second week in a row, is getting in weird love interest territory with a character of the week, and this time without any plans for the woman to kill him! But guest voice Susan Sarandon isn’t like the wood nymph, she’s an immortal god, which leads to showing just how different the perspectives on life and its significance is to gods, which may explain part of Deliria, who has past with Demeter, and why she’s so hostile towards the family. It would be neat to see more examination of the gods and how their morality differs from mortals.

The other plot, which sees the brain and brawn combo of Stupendous and Hippocampus team up again (the first time being in Episode 3 when they tried to make peace with a pack of wolves that will lead to domestication of dogs) to literally cheat death. We get to see a lore accurate version of Hades (the location, not the guy) and see a pretty cool fight between her and her dead friend who died of a bee allergy, but even though the fight could’ve lasted forever, Stupendous is moved by Hippocampus almost killing himself to remind her that she still has a life and has to let this grudge match go, so she moves on from the fight and even helps her friend do the same with water from the river (that does make you forget, according to mythology) and leaves with a heartwarming promise that she will be back. Both pretty dang good plots, doing all the stuff I liked about last time, and it’s with that in mind that I finally award Krapopolis with its first 8/10 rating. Here’s hoping they keep the momentum.