The Originals Review: Keepers of the House (Season 4 Episode 4)

There is a great power lurking in the blue light on The Originals Season 4 Episode 4, “Keepers of the House.”

It’s feeding, waiting, and planning to take over New Orleans like we’ve never seen before on this show. The fact that it’s taken control of Marcel and Klaus is frightening, and it’s going to take vampires, wolves, and witches to defeat it.

Including Freya Mikaelson, whose eye is on the prize aka killing Marcel at any costs.

Freya is so driven to destroy Marcel because he’s the first viable threat to the Mikaelsons since Dahlia. Fear is a powerful tool, and it’s driving her to kill Marcel at great risk to her life and the fragile trust forming between Marcel and the Mikaelsons as they hunt for The Hollow.

More importantly, she’s blind to the fact that her new mission is turning her cold and stealing the light we’ve always seen inside of Freya that separates her from the rest of her siblings. When her siblings find out, because they will, it will test the Mikaelsons.

Will they protect a sister that is their blood, but that they haven’t known for that long? Or will they protect a son that they raised and who loves Rebecca, despite his protests that those feelings are gone?

Either way, Freya will have to choose what’s more important when she realizes Marcel and Klaus are both under the thrall of The Hollow.

Delegating Hope’s care is exactly what the Mikaelsons need to do right now. No more going in half-cocked with a semi-decent plan where the body count is in the dozens by the time they’re done.

Every single one of these people care for Hope, and like every new family, they’re going to have to change their habits. And that definitely means chilling out with the senseless killing. I’m looking at you, Klaus.

Klaus putting his love into people instead of New Orleans is a signature moment for the hybrid. Holy character development, Batman! He’s spent seasons trying to gain control over his favorite home and look at him now.

Sure he’s still trying to find a balance. And sure he sometimes spouts off and looks like he’s about to fly off the handle. (He did in this episode for a tiny bit too.) But he’s recognized that there are more important things in this world.

The most important thing to Klaus Mikaelson is his daughter and he will continue to grow and change for her. As the season progresses we’ll see Klaus struggle to shed his old habits, that pesky Hollow business, and not fall back to the killer he was in Seasons 1-3.

Marcel will never be able to root out the problem in New Orleans because wounds take time to heal over and many still feel like they’re at a disadvantage or in the same place they were years ago, under the same king.

By the end of this season, there’s no doubt that the Mikaelsons will stay in New Orleans. I don’t think it could handle telling a story away from this historical place full of rich supernatural history. But they’ve got to work together.

The vampires, witches, and werewolves have to find a way to make it so they all have equal footing and say when it comes to their home. Together they must protect it from threats like The Hollow, especially now that it has Marcel and Klaus in its hands.

The Hollow taking these two is an act of war and a brilliant tactical move. Instead of fighting all of its enemies at once, it has taken the most powerful creatures to fight for it. Hope has never been in more danger than she is now.

Only by uniting will the vampires, wolves, and witches be able to save their home from the monster hiding in the blue light.

Additional Thoughts:

• Was it just me or did Freya and Keelin have a “moment”?
• Hayley and Elijah are still going strong. The talk they had about what Elijah would do with those children if he had no choice, is about moving the plot forward and getting rid of old habits.
• Kid actors are hit or miss. Hope, played by Summer Fontana, is doing a pretty good job balancing being adorable and warning every one of the impending doom with her creepy connection to The Hollow.
• RIP Detective Will Kinney. He’s been a red shirt for a while and he didn’t even know it.
• Marcel and Klaus arguing in the forest is a father/son argument. There’s still love their.
• When someone tells you to not look into the blue light…YOU DON’T LOOK INTO THE BLUE LIGHT!

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The Originals airs Fridays at 8/7c on The CW.

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