{"id":499122,"date":"2026-02-25T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499122\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:47:11","slug":"primal-season-3-episode-7-review-heart-of-the-undead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499122\/","title":{"rendered":"Primal Season 3, Episode 7 Review – \u2018Heart of the Undead\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Full spoilers follow for Primal<\/a> Season 3, Episode 7, \u201cHeart of the Undead,\u201d which is available on Adult Swim and HBO now.<\/p>\n

What a cool opening couple of minutes we got this week, first with the slow-motion blood rolling off the running Fang, and then the POV shots as the dinosaur hurtles towards Mira\u2019s village with her injured mistress on her back, finally culminating in Mira being carried into a hut where she falls unconscious as the camera fades to black along with her.<\/p>\n

More on Primal Season 3:<\/p>\n

Of course, not only is Fang and everyone else worried about Mira here, but they\u2019re also concerned about the health of her unborn child after the attack she suffered last week while battling those hog creatures. While watching \u201cHeart of the Undead,\u201d this actually made me ponder something for a moment \u2013 and forgive how morbid this is\u2026 what if the child of Spear and Mira who we saw in the final moments of Season 2 isn\u2019t the baby Mira is currently carrying? After all, Genndy Tartakovsky<\/a> has already undone the death of Spear which occurred in that episode, so what\u2019s to keep him and his team from diverting from what we think we know about the rest of what\u2019s to come as well?<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>Fang can’t get past Spear’s return.<\/p>\n

But no, that\u2019s not what\u2019s going on here, and soon enough the medicine woman, after examining Mira, smiles at Fang and the little villager kid: The baby will be OK, and so will Mira. (I mean, come on. Sure, Primal is the type of show where in its pilot episode it killed both of our main characters\u2019 children, but having Mira lose the unborn baby would be a step too far\u2026 uh, right?)<\/p>\n

Anyway, after that tense opening, what this episode is really about is Spear\u2019s realization that he has become a monster\u2026 or at least a monster in the eyes of most everyone around him, even his former best friend, Fang. This leads him on a Frankenstein<\/a>-ian journey \u2013 villagers with torches chasing him out of town, spontaneous moments of literal self-reflection in a mirror of water, and eventually, apparent if transient death. The thing about the Frankenstein monster, as we all know \u2013 and now about Spear as well, it seems \u2013 is that these guys just don\u2019t die that easily.<\/p>\n

The thing about the Frankenstein monster \u2013 and now about Spear as well, it seems \u2013 is that these guys just don\u2019t die that easily.\u201c<\/p>\n

Except, Mira and Fang don\u2019t know that, and by episode\u2019s end they think Spear is truly gone again, down that waterfall. They have no reason to think that the connecting river and waterways have taken his unconscious body into some kind of volcanic hellscape, where skulls adorn spears and a weird-AF-looking man-creature awaits him. Why would they ever think that!<\/p>\n

Questions and Notes From Anachronistic History<\/p>\n

Funny how the villager who\u2019s most afraid \u2013 sweat rolling down his face, eyes watering \u2013 is the one to make the first move and impale Spear. Ain\u2019t it always the case?The village child pantomiming to Mira everything that happened while she was asleep is just great.Notice how Mira is not happy with Fang after the T. rex rejected Spear again and led to his being driven out of the village. Maybe Mira will also be the key to Fang finally accepting Spear again?That\u2019s a messed up snippet of a flashback that we got to the zombified sauropod dying in lava from Season 1\u2019s \u201cPlague of Madness.\u201d There but for the grace of God, Spear\u2026Blue and Red Jr. don\u2019t get a ton to do this week, other than be cute and hilarious and ever-loyal to Spear. Their mom could learn a thing or two from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Full spoilers follow for Primal Season 3, Episode 7, \u201cHeart of the Undead,\u201d which is available on Adult…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-499122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}