These rules occasionally include human sacrifice and Grace is chucked into a to-the-death game of hide and seek on her wedding night.
Unexpectedly Grace wins, killing the whole Le Domas family, but now this opens up a seat at the table of the global cabal of Satanists. Mr Le Bail's rules say she must contest for this.
CW: bloody violence throughout
He's a bitter man and is trying to come to terms with things through therapy with Dr Kline (Renate Reinsve) but with little success.
The electrics in the store (where he also lives) are weird and when he goes down to check the breakers one night he sees light emanating through an impossibly thin discontinuity in an otherwise plain wall. When he starts looking for the source he literally falls through the wall as if it isn't there.
No good will come of this.
CW: weird as fuck
The young friends moan about work, go to bars and hang out in a standard "rubbish jobs in a boring town" kind of way.
Bear has a crush on the vivacious Nikki but in typical rubbish bloke fashion, can't bring himself to tell her.
One day he buys a novelty gift from a "new age" shop thinking to give it to Nikki. The One Wish Willow claims to give you one true wish if you snap it.
After a fumbled conversation with Nikki that he regrets, Bear snaps the One Wish Willow and asks that it makes her "love him more than anything in the fucking world".
No good will come of this.
CW: bloody violence, gore, mutilation, suicide, generally pitch black
Meanwhile TV weather presenter Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt), who is struggling with being overlooked for serious work, starts to have a very weird day.
It's a baroque old building with a large in-house staff tending to rich tenants and Superintendent Lily (Patricia Arquette) welcomes her, setting Isabella up in her new room.
No good will come of this.
CW: Ultraviolence and goopy gore
During a raid where a large number of people in an immigrant detention centre are freed Perfidia humiliates the CO, Colonel Lockjaw (Sean Penn) and he becomes sexually obsessed with her. Lockjaw begins to co-ordinate the hunt for the French 75 as a pretext to get to her, specifically.
When Perfidia gives birth to a daughter Pat tries to settle down and this is when things between them start to disintegrate. A bank robbery goes wrong and Pat is left literally left holding the baby, on the run under a false identity.
Now, sixteen years later Pat is a washed up, out of shape middle aged guy with a headstrong daughter (Chase Infiniti) who doesn't believe in any of his paranoid ramblings.
Colonel Lockjaw comes for them.
Unable to find what she considers proper work she's signed to produce episodes for a sensationalist "conspiracy" podcast channel but is struggling to come up with material and might lose that job too.
Out of the blue she receives an anonymous email about people who have received strange 'bricks' that have odd effects on their life. Looking into it reveals a decades long pattern she starts to investigate.
No good will come of this.
A new, intriguing neighbour (Mads Mikkelson) moves in opposite and she follows him, witnessing him slay a monster in the form of a group of men piloting a Chinese dragon.
When her parents are finally eaten (the monster is very real), concluding he has been delivered by the wish, she steals money to hire him to slay the monster.
The neighbour is an elite hitman but very much doesn't believe in monsters other than human ones.