What episode are you on? That convo is pretty significant but I don’t wanna spoil if you haven’t gotten there yet.

Yup it’s the same dude. Honestly Hill House was my fave, but this is prob tied with it now. Def not as scary as we all been talking about itt, but I fw it. Really fresh take on some of the mythos’ that have been beaten to death by now lol

On 5 currently lol I will say it's getting better as more is revealed

Hamish Linklater hive stand up, our boy is finally getting his moment

Best thing about the show tbh. Im surprised i haven't seen him anything before.... For some reason his face looked familiar

he was in FX’s Legion & had a minor role in Fargo S3

I finished it last night and definitely liked the 2nd half more...I guess Flanagans style just seems a bit self indulgent with the lengthy dialogue/monologue scenes...I can't say they aren't written well but just feels unnecessary at times...like the sheriff diving in to his entire "how I got here" speech when the doctor goes to talk to him...it just keeps awkwardly cutting back to the doctor making the same sad face...same with the "what happens when you die" speech...I get the significance of both but just felt a bit clunky

Finished it last night, great series all throughout. Tbh I'm not really a fan of Vampires, think they're pretty overdone much like Zombies but I loved how it was executed.

I actually didn't mind the monologues, thought they were great except for Sheriff Hassan's monologue about why he was there. Isolated from the context of the scene it's great but it seemed like they were trying to cram backstory 'cause they realized they only had 1 episode left.

Hill House is still top dog but this is second in my listing for Flanagan TV horror

Lmao yes that's what I just mentioned in my post, didn't read yours until just now just felt so out of place. I was expecting her to react like "uhhhh ok?"

Sometimes the lengthy dialogue works (loved the meeting scenes between Riley, the pastor, and the drunk dude) but yeah other times it's so awkwardly thrown in there lol plus the lady playing the doctors mom kept distracting distracting bc it was obvious she was just covered in makeup and she did a pretty iffy job of portraying an elderly person to where it felt like a parody almost

funniest s*** was the sherrif letting it all out all the racism and the lady was like ok ill just go

Nah I get it 100% lol. In retrospect it was very much info-dump-y, but I guess it spoke to me so I was willing to ignore it

I would agree, because I think zombies and vampires have been done to death, but idk something about this felt fresh. Not like the premise was anything super super different, but maybe it was just me going into this blind and now expecting anything even remotely close to what we got.

LMAO exactly it just kept cutting back to her face "that sucks but I really need to get going" face...thought it was going to end with him saying "and now you want me to investigate St. Patricks...FUCK YEAH I WILL" but instead he's still refusing and only gets convinced when his son refuses to stay home and not attend the Easter Mass lol there's just so many of those long winded conversations that on paper are not poorly written just felt weirdly inserted into this story...which happens a lot with Flanagan...his style is basically very talky horror lol I can see why Tarantino digs him

furthermore if he left his previous NYPD gig because of racism...why the f*** would you take a sheriff gig on a island of 100-200 mostly white, ultra religious people it's like Danny Torrance taking a gig as a hotel caretaker after the events of The Shining lol

it definitely throws a bunch of unique aspects of storytelling all into one (the guy returning home after a prison stint, the island cut off from society as a whole full of dreary/close minded people, religion vs science, ADDICTION which seems to be a big part of most of Flanagan's stuff, etc.)...also I respect that Flanagan puts his wife in everything he does but I often feel like her performances are too much of the same every time...like her performance in this just felt like Hill House and Bly Manor all over again as far as her acting goes...loved her in Hush but aside from playing a deaf character that performance also felt the same as her others lol

it'd also be great if horror movies/shows could stop with the violence against animals smh being a cat lover such as myself the ending of that first episode made me not want to watch the rest of the series lol then the dog gets poisoned and you gotta see its last moments n s\*\*\*...fucked up and didn't really feel like horror just animal gore for the sake of it...I probably sound like a wuss but that stuff always puts me off to whatever I'm watching (hated when Stranger Things killed Dustin's cat too)

Is this essential viewing?

i mean we literally see a group suicide of humans aswell so i disagree with this

Fair point but they were some nutcases lol just feel like animals especially cats and dogs are used too often for just shock gore imagery rather than their being an actual purpose behind it...like you see the one cat in the woods get picked off and suddenly they're all being put on display on the beach???...the dogs death was tough to stomach too like they didn't have to get that graphic with it IMO..most of the humans got pretty quick deaths by comparison even the especially awful ones.

what the f*** kind of question is this

The sheriff actor is channeling TLOU Joel vibes

When he was like ‘you don’t know what she I went through…I bear that for BOTH of us…’

Plus the jacket, the beard and look

It was straight Joel

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Idk if this is true but I know the actor is a big gamer so it could be tbh

yeah i think the cat beach thing had no great reason but the dog was done very well and had a purpose, we also see parente force their kids to take the poison that shir was def the most f\*\*\*ed up part imo

Do you have trouble with reading comprehension? Simple question: is it a must watch show or would I not be missing out if I didn’t watch it?

lmfao how is anyone supposed to tell you what is a “must watch” for you?? and imagine asking some bullshit like that instead of watching a bit and finding out for yourself whether it’s worth watching.

oh, and my reading comprehension has probably been better than yours since i was 5 years old btw

this s*** is legitimately 3x better than Bly Manor lmfao