Warning: This review contains full spoilers for Yaga Season 1, Episode 4. Episodes 1-4 are now streaming on AMC+ in the US and Crave in Canada, with new episodes releasing on Fridays at midnight PT.
The latest episode of Yaga pulls out all the stops to create the most incredible entry in the series so far. It’s aptly named “Dance With The Devil.”
We begin with Rapp having another vision, this time of Pam mixing together a drug or potion in a lab while wearing a white coat and the sinister mask from Episode 3 over her face. As she opens her coat, we see she’s not wearing a top and has the Triskelion symbol tattooed on her sternum. Rapp blinks and immediately is brought back to the reality of sitting on the other side of an interrogation room at the police department, while Carson is pressing Pam about her involvement with Logan the night he died.
As Pam insists she did nothing wrong, she does admit to loving Logan, and that she had an intimate relationship with him even after he started obsessing over Henry, who she deemed as being “such a fucking narcissist” for loving the attention he received from Logan.
Clark Backo utterly glows as Carson in this episode – the balance of sweet and intimidating in her intensity while interrogating Pam is mind-blowing. We really get to see her step fully into her role and it’s phenomenal.
While Carson is pressuring Pam to cave and give any information she’s withholding, she tricks her into admitting to having a threesome with Henry and Logan. In shots of the intimate scenes, we hear from Pam how obsessed Henry is with himself, saying it was his idea and “he didn’t like the idea of someone taking something that belonged to him,” referencing Logan. We see Pam and Logan eventually having sex, while Henry watches and pleasures himself in the corner, with Pam saying that Henry said it was like “watching a movie of himself” and being utterly entranced by Logan.
A theme that’s developing more prominently in every episode is men in this show consistently becoming more creepy and perverted. We have Rapp hitting on basically everyone, Logan with his disturbing tape recordings last episode, and in this episode, Officer Eckert, played by Patrick Gilmore, makes several side comments alluding to his attraction to Pam, who is a noticeably younger woman compared to himself – not to mention a suspect in a murder case, which just shows how unhinged his attraction is.
In search of more concrete evidence, Rapp and Carson head to the motel to have a chat with Angel about her tattoo. She confirms it is a Triskele (a variation of the Triskelion) with multiple potential meanings: death, life, and rebirth; fertility; the triple goddess; and past, present, and future.
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