Sonny Boy‘s third episode opens with its protagonist nearly dying inside of a toilet. I think that’s as good an encapsulation as any of the series’ dry sense of humor and penchant for absurdity in its pursuit of metaphor. The island hasn’t become any less strange, but the kids are adapting to its strangeness. Even the class outcasts have a niche found for them in this ecosystem, which is the main subject of this week’s installment. It’s no less dense than the first two episodes, but it benefits from being more focused than either of them. Now that we have a grasp (however loose) on what’s happening to this drifting classroom, we can start to dig in earnest into how it happened, who these characters are, and why any of this matters.
Much of that information is likely to stem from Rajdhani’s research. We certainly didn’t need his help to figure out what Nagara’s not-so-secret…
