Kaos – Season 1 Episode 6 Recap & Review

Breaking The Frame

Episode 6 of Kaos picks up back at The Cave. Dionysus shows and is shocked when he realizes Orpheus has crossed The Styx while Anatole has fallen. He’s well on his way to succeeding and this doesn’t settle well with Zeus’ son.

As for Orpheus, he’s led out into the wilderness for his next task. He doesn’t really know what this entails, since nobody has ever made it this far, but on he travels all the same as Charon says his goodbyes and leaves him to it.

Riddy can’t sleep and joins with Caeneus as they discuss what they’ve seen recently. He too dishonoured the gods as a child. No men are allowed within the ranks, but Caeneus hid among them and eventually changed his body. He’s given a new name and encouraged to leave. Caeneus hates the Gods almost as much as Riddy does, and this binds them together. It also prompts the two to let their guard down and eventually give in to their emotions.

Interestingly, its taken being dead for Riddy to actually feel alive, in a crazy twist of fate. She always felt like Orpheus was larger than life and she was insignificant alongside him, but now, with Caeneus, she gets a chance to be herself.

After opening up, Caeneus does the same when he announces his prophecy… which is identical to Riddy’s. Riddy brings up the crazed woman and believes that their prophecies have something to do with the Frame. Specifically, the horror that in reality, everybody who ends up going through the Frame winds up in this horrific place. There is no Renewal and the family that will fall? It’s referencing the Gods themselves. All of them.

Meanwhile, we learn a little more about the Underworld and what’s been happening. it turns out that the Frame has glitched out as the Nothing was never meant to hold that many deceased. This is why he needs to visit Zeus and sort this out. Persephone gives him a pep talk while up on Olympus, Zeus decides he’s going to bypass humanity and instead, go after the Fates. He figures that if he can destroy them, it’ll also destroy the prophecy too. However, this would destroy the entire world if he’s to do this.

Persephone and Hades show and demand that they talk. Specifically, how Zeus is making the prophecy come true because of the Frame breaking and glitching out. It’s a sign of the strain he’s putting on the Underworld. He needs to reset the Frame to protect the family. If he doesn’t, then Zeus is effectively causing this himself. Unfortunately, Zeus refuses to listen and demands that he head back to the darkness, burning Hades and leaving horrid scars all over him.

Caeneus comes up with a plan, and that involves going back to working as a Diver and making sure nobody goes through the Frame. As they set to work doing this, Orpheus finds himself facing his toughest challenge out in the desert. This includes seeing how far his devotion to his wife goes, with the promise of water quenching his thirst. He doesn’t fall for it, and makes it all the way to the Underworld. And as soon as he gets there, he spends ages at the fountain drinking before being offered the chance to be taken to Riddy.

While he wrestles with this, Prometheus narrates how the Gods were created. Zeus hated his father, and after years of torment, he killed him. Zeus attacked Kronos with such violence and vehemence that it led to his soul being absorbed into Zeus. It became part of him, giving him intoxicating power. Unfortunately, it led to Zeus needing to kill. When the God grew tired of doing this himself, he invented the Frame, not to renew human souls but to harvest them and liquidize it into Meander water. This is, of course, that circular fountain we’ve seen up in Olympus. It keeps the Gods immortal and as such, the lie maintained throughout with the humans distracted so they believe they’re going to be reincarnated.

Hera phones Poseidon and decides to show up alongside him to see Minos. They demand that he kill Glaucus and if he doesn’t, she’s going to take Ari. Hera hands over a dagger to kill it with, but Poseidon isn’t so sure this is going to work.

Back in the Underworld, Orpheus shows up to see Riddy. Caeneus is awkward and doesn’t know how to handle this, while Prue goes straight to Medusa, warning that they have a live mortal in the Underworld. Charon and Medusa seem to be working together, and with everything falling apart (or slotting into place, depending on your perspective!), Dionysus speaks to Poseidon. However, when he gets there, he finds Hera and Poseidon having sex on their boat. Woops.

The Episode Review

Everything is starting to slip into place now and it’ll be interesting to see where this one goes next. Dionysus appears to be the wildcard here and I’m sure he’s going to have a bigger part to play in the family falling apart than we’ve seen thus far.

Meanwhile, we get more drama involving Zeus and seeing him lose control and go off the rails is indicative of how unstable he’s become – and how he needs to be stopped. We get a good deal of reveals in this chapter too, especially involving the Underworld and how that slots into the grand scheme of things.

Everything has been gearing up for a dramatic finale and with two episodes left, it’s anyone’s guess exactly how this is going to play out.