ow Cape Fear Episode 8 Finally Exposes Max Cady's Twisted Intentions and Sets Up an Explosive Endgame for the Bowden Family

Spoilers below for Episode 8 of Cape Fear. New episodes stream every Friday on Apple TV. As Cape Fear barrels toward its inevitable explosive conclusion, I find myself queuing up each new episode with the same thought: This one can’t be as flat-out nuts as the last one, can it? And every time I get the same answer: Yes, it absolutely can. This week’s episode, titled “Los tiempos de Dios son Perfects” (Spanish for “God’s timing is perfect”), is so surprising, so melodramatic, and so propulsive that it left me in a state akin to Jack Torrance’s “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” moment in The Shining in which I repeatedly wrote “BONKERS” in all caps on my computer. Because this episode, filled with floating body parts, double crosses, and revelations is BONKERS. Episode 8 picks up moments after where we left off last week, when Tom and Anna tried to frame Max by convincing Anna’s father, Brandon, to plant suspicious medication in Max’s house. Soon, the police arrive and take Max into custody. Max glares at Tom and Anna while he’s loaded into a police car, and the look on Natalie’s face signals that she suspects something’s up as well. Meanwhile, back at Zack’s psychiatric f