‘Eternally Yours’ Exposes Jesse’s Secret to Phyllis — What’s Next?

Eternally Yours delivered a major twist in its latest episode, “Eternal Sunshine of Phyllis’s Mind,” which could change the direction of the season altogether. Warning: Spoilers for Eternally Yours Season 1 Episode 6 ahead!

The twist in question was the fact that Jesse’s (Parker Young) human wife, Phyllis (Rose Abdoo), was finally let in on the secret that the house she’s been living in is full of vampires. And while it happened more than once in the episode, Jesse agreed to let the reality stick without mind-wiping Phyllis, as he usually would.

The decision was reached after a plea from his half-vampire-half-human sons, Mort (Tristan Michael Brown) and Henry (Shylo Molina), who wanted their mother to finally be in on the family secret. Ultimately, the newest coven member, Max (Jaren Lewison), encouraged Jesse to be more open with Phyllis when he called out the vampire’s endless use of his mind-wiping power on the human.

As Jesse considered the benefits of not wiping Phyllis’s mind over trivial things, like arguments, it encouraged him to be more open, which led him to reveal his vampire status. It didn’t go well, as Phyllis screamed in fear, and the memory was eventually wiped.

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Yet the episode revealed an interesting layer to the gift, which is that a mind needs to be wiped within a certain amount of time in order to avoid having a memory become permanent. While Jesse cleared Phyllis’s memory in time the first time, he clearly wasn’t going to when the episode concluded with him driving her out to the desert, where he revealed he was a vampire before she bolted from the car, screaming and running.

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What does this latest development mean for the coven moving forward? Fans will recall that when Max learned his girlfriend Emma (Helen J. Shen) was a vampire, it wasn’t long before he was suddenly transformed into a vampire after a head injury that risked his life. So, viewers haven’t had a chance to see how that kind of arrangement would play out.

Thankfully, it seems like answers are around the corner with next week’s episode titled “Jesse’s Girl.” Until then, let us know your theories about what impact this will have on the coven going forward in the comments section below.

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