It soon becomes clear that Zoe has been diagnosed with (one assumes) schizophrenia, and that the girls’ mother is hospitalized with the same mental health issues. Rather, the two are running from problems that (a little frustratingly) the episode refuses to name outright. It’s not long, though, before we learn that she and her sister have less “moved away,” and more “fled” their previous home. At first glance, Alice seems a responsible yet tender-hearted protagonist, eager to put down roots and make connections in a community she wants to help bolster.
A city where we learn quickly enough that all is not well. “Butcher’s Block” opens with sisters Alice (Olivia Luccardi) and Zoe (Holland Roden), who have recently moved to a new city. Beneath that, though, “Insidious Onset” either poses a deeply worthwhile line of questioning through horror as a vehicle, or conversely, risks stumbling into insensitive trope after insensitive trope. The inaugural episode of Channel Zero‘s third season, this time based on Kerry Hammond’s “Search and Rescue Woods” and here titled “Butcher’s Block,” only peels back the first layer of skin on its narrative.
Warning: This article contains discussion of mental illness, ableism, and spoilers for Channel Zero.
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