10 Things About October Faction That Make Absolutely No Sense

10. These Character Choices Make No Sense, Part 1

Initially, Fred and Deloris Allen seem like a sweet couple with a sinister secret - they’re monster hunters, working for an ancient order called Presidio, created to protect humanity (and created by Kindler specifically for the show - they're not in the source material).

So far, so Buffy/Supernatural… except here, the monsters are shown to be more than just evil killers or savage monsters, and Fred and Deloris are shown to have willingly participated in wholesale murder and, in the case of the Harlow massacre, attempted genocide.

They keep claiming that there’s another side to the story - but we never actually see it. We see them, a childless couple, save warlock twins from the scene of the massacre to raise as their own, but two decades later, they're still protesting that they did the right thing.

Meanwhile, we see Alice Harlow kill a whole host of innocent people on her way to find her children - yet her episode-long backstory is supposed to absolve her of being a murdering psycho. The fact that it largely does is due to Maxim Roy’s haunted, haunting performance in the role, not the writing - she singlehandedly makes Alice Harlow, the antagonist for half the season, compelling as a protagonist in the back half of the season.

This could have been a fascinating flip of the expected narrative - the heroes are the villains! the villains are the heroes! - but October Faction wants to have its cake and eat it too. We're clearly supposed to be rooting for the happy couple trying to keep their family together. Except it's not their family, and the pair of them are lying mass murderers who stole their kids from the bloody ashes of a whole community.