Damnation Episode 9
Seth and Creeley were on the wrong side of the law in blind allegiance to their father and his pursuit of wealth and legacy. The Turner family’s notoriety never extended beyond being local thugs, and the father, a victim of patricide, didn’t live to see old age. The brothers weren’t shown a good example of familial love, which opened the door for blackmail, being framed for a massacre, and serving a life sentence in prison. Creeley has never asked for an apology, only a confession which might not amount to much on a playing field with powerful individuals who can borrow a person from a life sentence as if he were a true crime library book. There are potential depths to this show that haven’t been mined and ought to be. In the minimalist world that’s Damnation, Creeley might say between spitting tobacco out of the corner of his mouth, “You know, Seth, I know I did you wrong, but you left me no choice.” It was under the cover of night that the father assassinated Seth’s first girlfriend and her preacher father, followed by seven corpses laying on the cold church ground. The brothers were on opposite ends of doing the right thing, loyalty, and family honor. Years later at Martha Riley’s farm, the brothers were on the same side because of bigger stakes and a centralized foe. The cowardly Black Legion thought they’d be able to cloak themselves in nightfall, but the farmers were ready.
