'Jamestown' Recap: Season 3, Episode 6

Previously on Jamestown: Chacrow moves into Jamestown to work for Yeardley and kill Silas Sharrow, on the orders of the Pamunkey chief. Silas seems weirdly fine with this, but it all turns out fine anyway, since Chacrow can’t do it after he has some sort of religious experience while watching Meredith Rutter try to drunkenly commit suicide in a fit of guilt over driving his adopted son Tam away. Elsewhere, Joss drugs Crabtree and figures out that he’s got the King’s Seal, which means he’s actually the most powerful man in the colony, and not just a weirdo who likes to sell furniture no one asked for.

Season 3 is so strange, y’all. And this episode isn’t any different. It's not clear where it's going, and it's certainly not nearly as fun as it used to be.

No matter how much we as viewers may enjoy Pedro and Maria as characters; Jamestown has never been the sort of show that’s going to handle the issue of the birth of slavery in the American colonies with any sort of nuance. But the idea that Yeardley deciding to pass the two of them down in his will like a hope chest being the bridge too far for everyone in the colony when he’s been treating them like he owns them since they arrived there in literal chains is wild. Was anybody paying attention?