'Demons' S01E06: 'Nothing Like Nebraska'

Is this really the best they could come up with for a season finale? A frankly absurd plot in which Luke inexplicably turns against everyone while the largely insignificant Big Bad Damp Squib called Gladiolus Thrip returns following his supposed death in the first episode? The barrel has been scraped beyond recognition.

Just how quickly does Luke take the word of the happy medium as gospel, rejecting the opinions of his friends like Ruby? This is all a painful attempt to engineer a confrontation between mentor and pupil, as Galvin finds himself in the line of fire. After all the build up, the central clash is resolved in the space of a couple of explanatory sentences from Mina that reveal that Luke's dad had gone to the dark side. Luke buys it straight away. If Mina had told him that his mother was actually Adolf Hitler in disguise he would undoubtedly have hauled the poor woman off to Nuremberg without question.

As Thrip, Mackenzie Crook struts around in style, delivers his lines with morbid menace and is visually magnificent in his throwback outfit and hair. Yet there's no substance, no ingenuity to his character. He pulls a few strings here and there to manipulate Luke, but little else of note. He barely puts up any resistance when Mina attacks him. It actually looks as if he was just glad to escape the awful show.

At least Pauline McLynn is on hand to provide some entertainment as the medium, even slipping in a cheeky reference to her legendary tea-obsessed Father Ted character Mrs Doyle. "Try the teacakes... just kidding," she says to Luke with a twinkle in her eye. A nice touch.

An interesting twist occurs at the very end, as Mina turns fully fledged vampire, but it's all too late to kick this lacklustre show into life - or even half life.

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