"Unmasking the Past: Discover the Chilling Secrets Gullsander Has Been Hiding in Black Sands’ Thrilling Mid-Season Twists!"
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Black Sands takes us back to the past so that we can better understand the present.
And once again, the series is both riveting and chilling. As Black Sands Season 2 Episode 5 explores the aftermath of Davíð’s death, and Black Sands Season 2 Episode 6 shows us exactly what was happening at Gullsander.
What both hours reaffirm is how, once again, trauma can beget trauma and destroy people from the inside out.
Isn’t it funny how the stars can have a say in life’s most troublesome moments? Just like a good astrologer would tell you, sometimes you have to dive into the past to make sense of the chaos currently unfolding in your life. Black Sands does just that in its recent episodes, peeling back the layers of trauma like an uninvited guest at a family reunion, revealing all those messy secrets hiding in the corners. It’s as if the universe conspired to remind us that our histories shape our present—what’s got you in a twist? More important, can you handle the truth? LEARN MORE.
Black Sands takes us back to the past so that we can better understand the present.
And once again, the series is both riveting and chilling. As Black Sands Season 2 Episode 5 explores the aftermath of Davíð’s death, and Black Sands Season 2 Episode 6 shows us exactly what was happening at Gullsander.
What both hours reaffirm is how, once again, trauma can beget trauma and destroy people from the inside out.
The first hour was within our present-day timeline, and the truth around Helena’s death was finally coming to light.
But the hour also had everyone discovering that Davíð is dead.
What was interesting about Helena’s death is that the poor woman really did kill herself. It was easy to assume that Davíð was the one responsible for her death, and in some ways, he actually is.
But Helena had been struggling with the effects of what happened at Gullsander and Davíð’s abuse of her entire life. You can bury that type of pain all you want, but it still lingers beneath the surface.
And the moment she found out that Davíð was back in town, it triggered her all over again. She went to his house, Gullsander’s house, and hanged herself, leaving him a note that said that she was ending her hellish life at the place where that hell began.
Davíð didn’t kill her, but he did get into a car accident trying to get rid of her body, and then staged the scene and took off. And thanks to the DNA found at the scene, Aníta and Gústi were finally able to name him.
They already knew about the speculation around his assaults, too. But what they couldn’t anticipate was that the Gullsander girls had already gotten to him.
What surprised me was that they didn’t actively try to cover up the scene. They just left him there to be found. And once Gústi begrudgingly filled Tommi and Anita in on Davíð being the prime suspect, they were right on their heels, trying to talk to him too.
Well, Tommi was likely prepared to beat Davíð up at that rate. But finding his dead body changed everything. And now, Tommi went from the guy shocked to learn the possible truth about what happened to his grandmother to a suspect in Davíð’s murder.
In Gústi’s defense, looking into Tommi is just a matter of doing good police work. We all know he wasn’t behind that murder, but he had enough motive, and it’s a course of action they have to follow through on.
I respect the fact that he’s not allowing his fondness for Tommi to interfere with his objectivity, and I love that even though he voiced all of this to Fríða, he let her speak to Gabriel and took up checking Tommi’s stuff himself.
No sense in jeopardizing a friendship.
Again, I truly feel for Fríða, who has a lot she’s trying to navigate here, but she always does it so well and with genuine empathy for those around her.
For every bit as upset as she knows Tommi is, she still looks after him in any way she can.
And even with this investigation and the truth coming to light about Davíð as well as finding his body, she was immediately attuned to what this means for Aníta.
Our poor Aníta has lost another member of her family. Davíð is not a good person in the least, and at this rate, losing so many people around her has to feel as if her entire family is cursed.
But Aníta has been barely holding on these days as it is, and even though she also wasn’t fond of Davíð and has been sickened after piecing together who he really is, the man was her family, and now he’s gone, murdered.
It’s not the loss of him specifically that hits her so much as what he represents. However, I love that she went to Ragnheiður and gave her a heads-up about the police looking into her and the Gullsander women.
Aníta really doesn’t want to see these women, who already went through so much, have to go down for killing the man who already caused them so much harm.
If anyone can understand their position, it’s Aníta.
It’s those moments regarding the case where she seems to have the most clarity. It makes the stark contrast of how much of a shell she becomes at home all the more painful.
She’s really not doing well whenever she has to do anything with Erla, and it’s heartbreaking. But what was unexpected was the moments she had with Steffi.
That single tear down her face when Steffi told her she didn’t hate her and genuinely wanted to do what’s best for the kids seemed like a weight was lifted off her shoulders. She’s been so guilty, and it was just one more heavy emotion weighing her down.
It was such a far cry from her and Steffi’s last interaction.
Steffi immediately looked into ally mode, just being a support to Aníta, mother-to-mother, and I love that and want to see more interactions between the two.
I love Steffi. She’s an interesting character, and it seems that Jonna’s words have gotten to her.
Jonna is such a truth teller, and even though it was upsetting that her father had an affair, Jonna has been holding her mother’s feet to the fire for being a miserable, unhappy person long before that.
Teens are far more intuitive than most give them credit for, and it was a tough truth for Steffi to process, but Jonna wasn’t off the mark.
I’d love to see how Steffi proceeds. She’s angry right now, but she still loves Gústi, and their family and its future are in her hands right now.
Their family has its challenges, but it’s a nice contrast to the horror show that unfolds with Aníta’s family and the Gullsander women.
Spending an entire hour on flashbacks is a risky move, but fortunately, it paid off here.
With context, we got a better understanding of the power dynamics at play when Davíð was harming all of these girls.
They drop us in with us finding out about Halla’s pregnancy as she is, and from there, it’s filled to the brim with uneasiness, foreboding, and ickiness.
It’s no wonder that poor, sweet Helena struggled so much. It was her first day and night at Gullsander. She was a fresh, innocent face, eager to get to know the other girls, feel like she was part of something, and find a home.
But she was like an innocent lamb to slaughter. We saw a few times when some of the girls were trying to look after her, not wanting her to take that downstairs room, which was isolated and away from the other girls.
But she was none the wiser about why Davíð was offering that up. He was ready to move on to the next girl, Helena.
The hour explores the power dynamics that are at play in abusive relationships, and Auður really wanted to believe that she was in love with Davíð, and that she wasn’t a victim of his, even though she was only 14.
She viewed the other girls as competition. Helena wasn’t another victim of Auður; she was the girl who was replacing HER when it came to Davíð’s affections and attention.
It’s difficult to even judge her because it’s just such a sad byproduct of abuse.
And that’s what Black Sands does well: explores how abuse and trauma can shape everything about a person, make them awful beings, broken beings, and fragile beings.
Davíð was such a horrific man. It gave me chills every time he waws around one of the girls, and that intensified when he got aggressive with his mother, locked her away, and started demanding things of the girls.
But hearing Helena’s bloodcurdling screams was the worst yet. And seeing how Ragnheiður watched Davíð drag her off, heard what was happening, and just ignored it? Or Davíð’s mother doing the same thing?
That was brutal. And that’s where the conversations around silence and complicity shine through.
We came full circle in a way that’s worth appreciating, however twisted it is. Davíð was an abuse victim, too. His mother locked him away in sheds and left him there when she couldn’t handle him, and who knows what else.
So that flashback of a young Davíð pushing his pregnant mother down the stairs and effectively blinding her was likely his response to the punishments she’d inflict on him.
And seeing that she finally told Salómon the truth about his lineage and Gullsander’s history and her own guilt in how she treated Davíð had him pushing her down the stairs and ending her life.
Like father, like son, right? Or, like Black Sands.
Over to you, Black Sands Fanatics. If you’re out there reading and watching on Viaplay, let me know!
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