There’s a scene about two-thirds of the way in which by “Foe” whereby Junior rants about how grossed out he’s about humanity, and remembers, intimately, a time when he witnessed a co-worker blow his nostril and discard the tissue on his used meal plate. Junior is so disgusted that he begins to query the very perform of the human race. Mescal performs the scene with sweat and nerves and jitters, quivering with barely managed violence. He then begins pounding the wall along with his fist, leaving bloodied knuckleprints on the quaint nation wallpaper. I believe Davis needed this scene to speak Junior’s standing as a passionate outsider, a person unwilling to bear the filth of the “regular world” and aching to flee into connubial solitude along with his spouse. However this scene, and some different mysteriously violent moments prefer it, make Junior look like getting ready to bodily abuse.
Into this gumbo of distress, Davis stirs in a nonsensical sci-fi plot that makes much less and fewer sense the extra one thinks about it. A mysterious authorities agent named Terrance (Aaron Pierce) arrives at Hen’s and Junior’s door, and Junior instantly assumes he and Hen have been having an affair. Terrance informs the couple that Junior has been conscripted into the house program and that he will likely be dwelling in house, incommunicado, for 2 years.
Over the subsequent yr, Terrance will come to their house repeatedly to conduct deeply sinister exams on Junior with out telling him what they’re for. Junior begins behaving extra surprisingly than traditional, doing issues like working into burning barns and having conversations with beetles. What’s Terrance doing to him? And who’re these mysterious Males in Black lurking outdoors the home windows?
