In Channel Zero’s third season, the show pulls back from the claustrophobic focus of its first two and sinks its teeth into the rotting underbelly of American class warfare. Butcher’s Block is broader, bloodier, and funnier than either Candle Cove or No-End House, but while its lens may be wider it lacks none of their piercing insight. Its grisly thrills pluck a single string of a vast and sprawling web of social injustice, mental illness, and class treachery. When Sisters Alice (Olivia Luccardi) and Zoe (Holland Roden) Woods arrive in the show’s nameless city, they’re coming from a childhood shaped by their mother’s violent schizophrenia and Zoe’s own ongoing struggles … Continue reading Insanity, Class, and Cannibalism in Channel Zero’s Butcher’s Block