
The review contains spoilers for Halo season 2, episode 5.
There are so many things working against Halo’s latest episode ‘Aleria’ that I went in almost expecting it to fail. It didn’t. The high bar set by last week is an obvious shadow looming large across the follow-up, while the 60-minute runtime in a series that often focuses its attention in all the wrong places had me fearing the worst.