The series or episode finale of
Into the Badlands airs Monday, May 6 at 10PM EST. Try not to lose your head over it. The penultimate scene of Into the Badlands is paramount for a great deal of reasons, however the one that stands out the most is the opening secret grouping where we see Pilgrim (played by the amazing Babou Ceesay) murder and execute Nix with his uncovered submits a Dark Eyed attack of obdurate fierceness.
At the point when he's set, he hurls the separated leader of his once surrogate little girl down the stairs of The Widow's internal sanctum with no indication of regret appearing all over. Discussion about virus! Then, the camera needs to ensure that we know she's completely, emphatically dead as well, so it not just waits on a fix of her separated head — it zooms in nearer.
Classy, huh?"Yeah, that is like...wow," Alfred Gough, co-creator of Into the Badlands, said. "Even watching it later, you’re like...wow."
Although the series is certainly no stranger to shocking, repulsive displays of violence, Nix's death scene from Season 3, Episode 15 "Requiem for the Fallen" is incredibly disturbing, to say the least — not to mention disgusting.
But believe it or not, this act of trigger-warning, nightmare-fuel gore exists for an elegant storytelling reason — one that the show's creators, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, were quick to explain.
"We wanted to definitely show the audience that Pilgrim had gone over the edge and there was no coming back," Alfred Gough said. "And you see the journey of when he was so close to Nix at the beginning [of Season 3] and how much he cared for Castor. Then his betrayal...and he slowly descended into this darkness. To us it was like okay: there’s no coming back from this now. That’s one of the reasons we wanted to show that."
In other words, as the show nears its end, the stakes had to be raised, and we needed to know, without a doubt, that Pilgrim is a bad guy. Now, we totally do.
"It’s harsh," co-creator Miles Millar added. "Very harsh."
"It’s harsh as hell," Gough agreed.
