SurrealEstate Season 2 Episode 3 The Butler Didn’t Review And Recap- Susan Has Reached A Breaking Point In This Murder Mystery Rich Episode

We spend so much time at work that it can almost be like a second home, and the people we work with can be extended family. Unfortunately, if that work environment is toxic, it becomes a prison we willingly check into day after day for a paycheck. What happens when our home becomes equally detrimental to our health, and we don’t even know it yet? SurrealEstate Season 2 Episode 3 explores the power of memories, experiences, and manipulations when tensions boil over and life-long guilt takes hold.

There’s an underlying sweetness to SurrealEstate that has always come through. Regardless of the ghost of the week or the occasionally creepy subject matter, the Roman Agency was a team, and so many of the ghosts were driven by grief and love. That sweetness is being tested in Season 2 now that Susan and Luke are at odds. It creates an imbalance that is going to start affecting everyone. Luke is defensive and belligerent, and Susan is feeling abused and angry. It’s a deadly combination for partners who sell houses and purge the supernatural. At least in SurrealEstate Season 2 Episode 3, they can bring peace to a couple, but it looks like the Roman Agency’s days of success are behind them.

Andrew Tolliver has only lived in his gorgeous house for one year and already wants out. The ghost of a woman he claims not to know keeps dropping in on him literally. When a young couple comes to view the house, she makes an appearance and runs them off as well. Luke and Susan are forced to work together to speak to the ghost using Auggie’s new gadget. Tensions are high between the two. It is palpable and uncomfortable. Between sniping at one another, Genevieve, the ghost, tells them she is looking for her killer because she did not hang herself. A search of the house finds her diaries, which detail a steamy affair with a W and four possible murder suspects.

SurrealEstate Season 2 Episode 3 felt like the setup to an Agatha Christie story in all the best ways. A small group of possible killers and a melodramatic death preceded by a third marriage of a pseudo-celebrity was fun. All of the usual suspects were present. The cheating friend and new husband. The antagonistic son who was having an affair and involved in blackmail and a mysterious man who was Genevieve’s true love were all possibilities.

They each had motive and opportunity, but in the end, it was a tragic love affair and a horrible accident that cost Genevieve her life. Andrew Tolliver, who had been missing since the ghost showed up, was Warden Oliver or W. He and Genevieve had an affair all those years ago, and when he tried to break up with her because she wouldn’t leave her husband, she threatened suicide. In his efforts to stop her, she fell over the railing and to her death. Once Susan was able to tell her the whole story, Genevieve brought Andrew back. Unfortunately, he was already dead of a heart attack. He had been feeling guilty his entire life and left a sizeable amount of money to the same Shetland Pony rescue Genevieve put in her will. Finally, in death, these two could reunite and find the love they desired.

Things in Susan’s house seem to be great. It anticipates her needs and provides solace after a long day, but there are signs that it isn’t what it appears to be. Her alarm being set for 6:15 PM and not AM could have been user error, but later, when she had trouble unlocking the door, it looked more like a sign. This house is becoming territorial. It might love its new owner too much, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it starts restricting her outside time. Susan doesn’t need any encouragement to dislike Luke, but she still cares about the others. I wonder what the house will do to drive a wedge between them all. Susan’s comments about homes that seem great but aren’t are obvious, foreshadowing that there is trouble brewing.

A seemingly innocuous conversation between Zooey and Luke about her taking the real estate exam and joining the team as an agent hides more severe ramifications. It would be easy for Susan to walk away from the agency to start her own. If something terrible happens to Zooey due to Luke’s hubris, however, it would be just the thing to bring Susan back into the fold. I hope it is not too steep a price to pay. The idealistic young woman is the beam of youth the group needs and often the glue that binds them. Savannah Basley(Zooey) has grown on me and brings something fresh to the series that is needed.

Susan has developed new talents that include talking to people in her dreams. Whether this is the emergence of a new gift or something the house is doing, we don’t know yet. We do know she is taking time from the agency. She is tired of being controlled by men who don’t value her. Luke, who has been incapable of seeing anything but his own problems, doesn’t understand why she is upset. He is too wrapped up in his loss to see what he is doing to her. Hopefully, he figures it out, and they can mend things before it is too late.

Auggie continues to be a bright spot in the series. Lines like “The man’s a carnival ride with a loose bolt and a tight downhill turn are both colorful and oddly poetic. I could listen to him for days. For his sake, I hope this rift is fixed sooner rather than later. I have a terrible feeling Zooey, Phil, and Zooey could end up paying the price for their bosses’ problems. Find all our SurrealEstate coverage here.