![]() ![]() Deputy Dolls (Anderson) was revealed to be part dragon Waverly was revealed to be half-angel Doc became a vampire. Black Badge was revealed to be as big a bad as half the demons that plagued Purgatory, while the other half of those self-same demons proved to be more or less decent people just trying to make a new start. By the end of the first season, both Deputy Nicole Haught (Katherine Barrell) and Sheriff Randy Nedley (Greg Lawson) had become a part of Wynonna’s demon-fighting crew by the start of Season 2, nerdy Black Badge scientist Jeremy Chetri (Varun Saranga) had made the family whole.Īt the same time as Wynonna’s found family was growing, the relative clarity that underscored the show’s original premise started to muddy the straight line between Peacemaker (Wynonna’s demon-killing gun) and the revenants’ demonic skulls shattered at the end of Season 1, with the thorny question of who gets to be considered a hero, and who a villain, taking its place. border (Shamier Anderson), and Wyatt Earp’s mysteriously immortal best friend, Doc Holliday (Tim Rozon). Fighting alongside her originally were little sister, Waverly, humorless Black Badge agent from across the U.S. Corral-revenants who were themselves cursed to resurrect every time a new heir reached their twenty-seventh birthday. The latest in a long line of cursed Earp heirs, Wynonna was obliged to hunt down the demonic revenants of the 77 outlaws her great-great-grandfather, Wyatt, had put down back in the days of the O.K. A Weird Western procedural-meets-Chosen One epic, the show set its early narrative sights on the Ghost River Triangle’s sexiest prodigal daughter, Wynonna Earp (Melanie Scrofano), as she reluctantly returned home to take up her family’s gunslinging, wise-cracking, demon-fighting mantle. Sure, when it first premiered in 2016, its premise was fairly straightforward. This is lucky, as-and I say this with all the love in the world-it’s been a long time since the supernatural story Wynonna Earp was telling made much sense. Other shows could put their storytelling objectives ahead of their audience’s love for the characters doing the telling, but Wynonna Earp was happy to be the shit-show its family of fans (and crew) could call home. But while other fan-favorite projects have chafed under the weight of those expectations in recent years (looking at you, The 100-and you, too, Supernatural), series creator and showrunner Emily Andras made her peace ( pun intended) with her show’s role as fan fairy godmother early on. ![]() Telling a story with fandom front of mind isn’t, of course, the way most creative teams want to operate, even if our current era of fan-saturated social media is structured to incentivize just that. ![]() Like, “pool our money together to buy 100+ billboards around the world to save the show from cancellation” in like, “organize homemade fan art for a second billboard campaign to #BringWynnonaHome for a longshot fifth season” in. And its fans, in turn, were one thousand and sixty-nine percent in. Apart from being extremely loud, a bit nonsensical, and totally gay, the biggest legacy Wynonna Earp has now left behind is the fact that, until the last, it was made one hundred and sixty-nine percent (nice) for its fans. And honestly, if you haven’t been keeping up with Syfy’s indomitable Weird Western lovefest since it first premiered back in 2016, I think that’s as good a summary as you’re likely to find-that it’s more like fan art than an official screenshot is even better. It’s of Waverly Earp (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) from early in the series’ run, mouth stretched wide in a powerful roar, subtitled (loud gay screaming). There’s an image I stumbled on, while scrolling Tumblr’s Wynonna Earp tag after Friday’s big series finale. ![]()
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