The show's progress with each episode this season is getting slower and slower. Episode 7 seems to be trapped just like the characters of the show. It wasn't able to decide which way to move forward and how to give the audience a reason to follow. This is what happens when you put 10+ subplots in parallel.
The seventh episode follows more than 10 subplots that include the individual storylines of Tabitha, Julie, Donna, Boyd, Kristi, Fatima, Kenny, Victor, Elgin, Randall, Acosta, Henry, and more. As a result, the 50-minute-long episode was hardly able to allocate 4-5 minutes to each, which impacts the overall progress of the show that hardly moves, and to be honest it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
Episode 7 begins with the news of Fatima not being pregnant. She still believes that she is and no one is able to convince her otherwise. Boyd predicts two possibilities - either this place has got her and she has lost her mind or she is experiencing something like he did with the worms inside the skin. Either way, Boyd conveys Fatima's condition to Donna, who feels it might not be safe for the others at Colony House if Fatima stays there. Boyd doesn't take her suggestion, but Donna seems to be proven right when Fatima kills Tillie.
Meanwhile, Tabitha is following her childhood nightmares deep into the forest where she reunites with Jim. They again get into arguments, but Tabitha is quite astonished to discover the place that was exactly like she saw in her childhood nightmares.
Julie goes on a ride with Randall but that is cut short when Randall starts seeing imaginary bugs that have been bugging him for the past few days. Victor doesn't seem to make any progress with Jasper, who is silent as a rock. Victor goes to Sara's as he thinks the basement could unlock Jasper's secret.
The new lady cop in the town Acosta gets back at Boyd for insulting her and wants her gun back. Her guilty feeling phase is over and now she wants to get out of the town. Things are not getting better between her and Boyd as she insults him and then leaves the sheriff's station.
The seventh episode, These Fragile Lives, focuses on almost every individual character but adds almost nothing to the story. The show now seems all over the place, and until the writers cut back on showing these individual subplots every episode, we might need three to four hours of episodes.
Final Score - [5/10]