’The Sinner’ Boss Addresses Scapegoating and Its Horrifying Implications for the Commune

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “The Sinner” Season 2, Episode 5, “Part V.”]Mosswood has never felt like the sanctuary that it’s purported to be, but “The Sinner” introduced its most disturbing revelations about the commune yet on Wednesday’s episode.In flashbacks, Mosswood leader Lionel Jeffries (Brennan Brown), aka The Beacon, presented the concept of scapegoating to Vera Walker (Carrie Coon) in the form of a calf.

By raising the calf lovingly, naming it, but then putting all of one’s negative emotions on it, a bond would be created.

And then the Mosswood members would kill the calf, thereby symbolically eradicating those emotions in a supposedly healthy way.

While sacrificing animals is already a troublesome subject, how the episode ends hints that something worse may lay ahead when the Beacon allows young Marin (Hannah Gross) to remain pregnant, despite previously banning members from having children.“We’ll raise him, all of us together.

The child will bind us,

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