you Hello fellow weirdos and welcome to Horror Through Her Eyes. You've got the amateur destroyer here and the Taminator in the his house. We're ready to explore the twisted world of horror and prove the girls enjoy horror just as much as the guys do. We also have our very special guest tonight, our returning guest through this whole series, Nicole Trawick. Is that right? Yeah. I'm always afraid I'm going to get backwards now. You're thinking it too much. Overthinking it. I am. I am.
So thank you so much for coming back for three episodes. Yeah. Really cool. I want to thank you again for inviting me on to this.
Doing such a deep dive on a series that I love and I feel like has so many layers has been like... really awesome for me it's actually been a lot of fun awesome seriously that's why Tammy and I love to talk series too because especially nowadays it's not like how it was back in the day when there were like water cooler series I mean there are occasionally you know like with last of us
or something everybody watches it but a lot of the time now it seems like there's too many shows that don't have enough viewers you know what i mean or not enough like there's not people around you that are watching it unless you happen to be watching it with like your partner or something. So it's really fun to get to talk to you about the series in person. And you don't even realize how much you're going to dissect it until you get into it. it and then you're like oh wait this could mean this
Especially when you have multiple perspectives and then they just open doors for you. So you weren't even thinking about. Yeah, exactly. So we love that you came back. Thank you so much. And, you know, fitting podcasts into your schedule isn't the easiest. thing to do so we really appreciate it so yes thank you and uh nicole you're going to be blessed with our haunting headlines this week so go ahead and take it away whenever you're ready Well, we'll start out with some...
sad news, it looks like. After a long battle with illness, it was announced on June 20th that the legendary Emmy-winning actor Donald Sutherland has passed away in Miami, Miami, Florida, at the age of 88. I didn't even know he was sick. honestly. I didn't either. His son, Keith Sutherland, writes on Twitter, with a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film.
Never daunted by a role, good, bad, or ugly, he loved what he did and did what he loved. And one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived. It's nice. Yeah. Donald Sutherland made a handful of noble pit stops in the horror genre through his multi-decade career on screen. which kicked off back in the early 1960s. Here in the horror world, Sutherland is known for his roles in Don't Look Now, 1973, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978,
which I have to say is, yeah. You feel me. One of my favorite movies, that last scene with Donald. It gives me chills just thinking about it now. I think it's one of the most horrifying endings to a movie.
movie ever 100 incredible if you've never watched that movie go watch that movie and most recently stephen king adaptation mr harrigan's phone 2022 Sutherland also starred in films including Castle of the Living Dead, 1964, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, 1965, The Rosary Murders, 1987, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie in 1992, Citizen X,
1995, Fallen 1998, Virus 1999, Salem's Lot, 2004, and An American Haunting in 2005. Yeah, what a bummer. That was one of those ones that just kind of knocks the wind out of you when you read it. You're like, what? No, not Donald Sutherland. It seems like he had a good life and a very good career. And you could tell he loved what he did.
It sounds, I mean, I didn't even know he was sick either. So I'm guessing he got some kind of a diagnosis and it sounds like they kind of kept it within the family and just announced it when it was all over. So we all get to remember him as he was. So that's good.
yeah it does make it hard though when it like comes out of nowhere it's like with david bowie i was just gonna say it's like david bowie yeah yeah that one just like totally knocked me on my ass yeah i was like what he's not there's nothing wrong with him Yeah, that totally surprised me.
I feel like he's always one that kind of has just thrown himself in every role that he's done. I know it's not horror, but he was in 100 Games as President Snow. I thought he was incredible. Perfect in that. Playing a bad guy. kind of morally ambiguous especially when if you read or saw the the prequel but yeah he he will be missed very much so on to some better news and i actually just heard about this today myself but the hollywood walk of fame
2025 class has been announced today, and we're thrilled to pass along the word that two legends in the horror field are getting their bloody flower. First up, Robert Englund joins fellow horror acting legends including Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, with a much-deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2025. Finally! Robert Englund tweets this afternoon, I woke up this morning to discover I'm in great company in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, class of 2025.
Just to hear my name mentioned alongside Jane Fonda in print makes my old heart go pit-a-pat. He's so cute. Robert Englund's name is also being mentioned alongside fellow master of horror John Carpenter today. as Carpenter has been announced for the 2025 Hollywood Walk of Fame Club. He's my favorite director, so I feel like that's... I was thinking, yeah, he doesn't have one yet? Yeah. Well, did Jane Fonda really just get one?
that seems way overdue too. Yeah. I think a lot of times these are, you hear about them, they're like, you didn't already have one? I don't know. Yeah. And then Bill Duke, known for his roles in 80s classics Predator and Commando, is also being honored. Yay, everybody!
That's awesome. And then next up, with a sequel to the Fear of Heights thriller Fall on the Way, Variety reports this week that two stars of the 2022 movie will reunite for the upcoming remake of The Breed, a new take on the killer dog horror movie. Oh, I don't know about that movie. Yeah, that's one that I totally missed. I'll have to check that out. Virginia Gardner and Grace Caroline Curry will star alongside Paige Kennedy from The Meg.
In the remake that's being directed by filmmaking brothers Sean and Brian First, the remake is described as an unconventional reimagining of the West Craven cult classic. So again, the original movie wasn't directed by Craven. It isn't quite a cult classic. In any event, Curmudgeon Films will be producing the breed in the fresh take of the 2006 horror movie.
Violet, who is Greek Caroline Curry, is a rebel icon and badass on a mission to search for abandoned dogs on a remote island which leads to complete adrenaline-fueled terror. Oh, that just sounded good to me, so I threw it in there. Yeah, dogs are like my biggest fear, so I'm terrified, and I'll watch it.
Did both of you see The Fall? I know you did, Jessica. Did you see it, Nicole? The Fall? Yeah. I loved that so much. I thought it was just kind of like a sleeper, but I really liked it. I liked it, too. I was kind of surprised. I was like, how are they going to have this?
what was it hour and a half or like, how are they going to really make it go on for that long? But I thought it was really well done, especially for somebody with a fear of heights. I think that would have been good on the big screen. Did you see it in theaters?
I didn't. I saw it on the little screen, unfortunately, though I wish I would have seen it. But I think it's one of those that was just there for a really short time. And I didn't I don't think I remember. Mark was the one that told me to watch it. And I think it was already gone from theaters by that time. But it's. also one if you haven't seen it has a really good twist that honest to god got me and i love when a movie can do that so yeah liked it yeah me too
All right, cool. Well, thank you so much for reading our haunting headlines. And since you're our special guest, we're also going to let you go first for our Fright Bites. It's smooth One movie I wanted to bring up that I just saw, it popped up on Netflix. I hadn't heard about it. I hadn't seen it advertised. I think it popped up for me because I've seen a bunch of Indonesian films on there, horror films. And I think that's why it was recommended to me.
It's called Monster. Have either of you heard of this? No, definitely not. Yeah, I haven't heard anybody online. When I watched the movie, I hadn't heard any podcast talking about it, but I recently listened to Fresh Cuts and the guys did it on there. That was a good review. But before that, I was like, this movie, I feel like came out of nowhere for me. And I was a little blown away. Nice. I always watched Indonesian movies on there and it didn't get recommended.
to me, but I'll look it up. Yeah, you should look it up. Yeah, me too. That sounds awesome. I think it came out last year there, but it just came out on Netflix like this month or last month. I don't know. Okay. Quick little synopsis is two friends are kidnapped, kidnapped by a monster and have to fight by any means necessary. That's literally the whole thing. And there's not really any dialogue in the film. There are a couple words like I think it's mostly like.
somebody saying a name it might be like a couple other little things so um what was that movie on hulu that no one will save you yeah my number one of last year yeah yeah i loved that movie i feel like it's it's a hard thing to pull off you really
have to the actors really have to pull off facial expressions and body language and these kids it's mostly focused on one kid and then you see the other little kid too and then the you know monster monsters I want I don't want to give anything else away but
I thought they did a good job, especially the main little girl. Awesome. I thought it was really good. All right, I'm going to watch that. Yeah, you really have to, in order to, you know, when you don't have dialogue, you have to have the plot moving along in an interesting way to keep you engaged.
Otherwise, you're going to get bored and probably stop paying attention. I feel like this movie definitely does that. Nice. Check that one out. Maybe I'll check that out this Friday for movie night. And then I just... finished watching this a couple days ago, I think. Under Paris, which is also on Netflix. Oh, what'd you think? I really enjoyed it. I'm kind of a sucker for shark movies anyway, even a lot of bad shark movies, I have to admit.
This one, I feel like, is one of the best shark movies since maybe, like, 47 Meters Down, The Shallows. Like, I was pleasantly impressed. I thought it would be, like, a little bit more B-movie, sci-fi kind of thing. The acting was really good. I really liked all the characters. Well, I shouldn't say that. You don't like a lot of characters, but you kind of understand the characters. The acting is really good. The story is decent. It's all CGI, obviously, but I feel like most of it is good.
Nice. There's a scene or two where it's like, okay, they had to do a shot like that, but it's a little silly. But I mean, otherwise, it's a little good. And the ending was not what I was expecting. Think of how most shark movies end. And this kind of went in an opposite direction. So it is in French. So subtitles, but they do have a dubbed version that my daughter ended up watching. And she said it was actually not too bad. Nice. That's awesome. I haven't heard a ton about it yet.
couple of reviews i've seen have been positive so i'm like yes be a good shark movie but i'm also a sucker for shark movies so i watch terrible shark movies and still have fun If you like shark movies, I think you'll like it. I've actually heard a lot of bad reviews about it, and I'm kind of surprised. Okay. I haven't been digging very deep, but I happen to see a couple. Maybe one of them was even from you. Did you post?
I did post about it, yeah. Okay, one of them was probably from you. But, yeah, I've seen only a few of them. And so far the ones I have seen have been positive and brief. I think it was fun. And I think it's good the way it ended, but it's also open to a possible sequel. I think it would be good either way. So we'll see. Awesome. And then the, I'm sorry. Oh, I just said very cool.
The only other things I've really been watching are TV shows. One that I just started watching, it kind of been on my TBR for a little while. And then I heard somebody talking about it and how good it was. So I was like, I decided to put it on. Parasite the Gray on Netflix. It's a South Korean. Yeah, I think I started that and I got distracted by something else. It's like I haven't come back to it, but it's not because I didn't like it. It was just like I've just been watching other things.
Yeah, I know of it, but I haven't seen it. I guess it's based on a manga, and they also did an anime of it, which I haven't seen. I'm kind of curious to look into it. But it's basically people rising to combat unidentified parasites after they violently take over a human host to gain power. They are hinted at being kind of alien. You don't, at least from where I'm at.
in a series you don't really know too much about them but they're they are definitely sentient and they completely destroy the host and take over and there is the main girl in the movie who that does not happen to for a reason that you have to watch to find out And it's yeah, it's pretty interesting. And I was looking it up. They do a mix of practical effects and CGI. Because some of the stuff I was like.
That looks good. Like, I think that's really practical. So I looked it up, and they do a lot of practical. Okay, cool. So the special effects are amazing. Oh, good. All right. Yeah, I think that's a fun little one to watch. Nice. I'll have to watch that one next. Like when I need a show.
Yeah, I don't know how many episodes. I think it's only one season. It just came out, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, it did. And then the last thing is not technically horror, but I feel like a lot of horror fans probably watch the show or maybe should watch the show, but the boys season four. Yeah, I'm watching it. You are? Of course. I love that show. It has to be my favorite show that is currently airing on TV. It's so violent and bloody. I feel like it shocks me.
one or two episodes every season. And yeah, it's hard to shock me, I feel like. And so when that happens, I am I get an ear to ear grin. I'm pleasantly surprised. Yeah, the gore on that show is like next level. The things that they get away with and that they do. The things they think of and then actually put in the show.
And that the actors, like, agree to do some of this stuff. Right. It's so much fun. It's by Eric Kripke, if you've ever watched Supernatural. He did that, and he's pulled a bunch of actors from Supernatural, which I love. I get a kick out of that. And he has stated that several of these characters are kind of parodies of or based on like real life people, politicians. There's a lot of social themes. Like it's not just blood and gore and nudity.
shock value it's it's like current event stuff twisted and like right got superpowers like how would they be and i think it's just a brilliant show yeah totally you don't watch it tammy i I haven't, but I know both of you do, and I'm sure I will. I don't know why I haven't watched it, to be honest with you. I guess I just don't ever think about it, you know? I don't go on Prime very much. It's on Prime, right? Yeah. That's like one of the...
last places i ever check for something to watch i think it's part of the problem too so it's on my list i just don't know why i haven't started it yet like you guys make me want to watch it so it's awesome yeah it's just so messed up it's like so much up but so funny and clever too yeah they'll go so dark and then five minutes later you are just laughing your ass off hilarious you don't like know how to react to some of this stuff
It's so good. And the actors, they have such amazing actors. Yeah, like if you watch it for anything, at the very least, watch it for Butcher. Oh, Carl Urban, yeah. Yeah. It's very hot. It's like his hottest role. Yeah. I think he's at like whatever age he should be at or something. He's like so hot. He's like peak urban right now. Yes. Yeah, that's pretty much what I've been watching. I haven't been watching too much lately. Yeah, I have not been watching a ton, but...
For my Friday movie night, I did finally watch Maximum Overdrive from 1986 with a couple of my friends, and we had so much fun. It's one that has been on my watch list for forever. And I've just been waiting for like the perfect excuse to finally watch it. And I feel like so many people make the movie sound like it's unwatchable. You know, they're like Stephen King's only movie ever directed. But he was like so messed up on drugs. It's such a mess. And I was like, OK, this is like so bad.
it's good I love that movie I've seen that movie a hundred times it's one of my guilty pleasures and I know everybody hates it and I don't get it I really don't I love it I haven't seen it in a long time but it's a fun movie and I think it's a fun
movie to watch with other people totally yeah it was it was a good time so i'm glad that i finally could check that box um but yeah so much fun for anyone who hasn't seen it i'm sure everybody has either seen it or they know exactly what it is Thank you. I also started watching a show on Netflix called Evil. I think there's like already four seasons out. And I'm trying to remember, I feel like Mark told us that we need to watch this. Does that ring a bell, Tammy? Or am I making that up?
Nicole, you told us to watch this, didn't you? I love this show. My husband and I watch it. It's one of the few shows we watch together, and we haven't started the newest season. I think that just came out. Yeah, I believe there's four seasons. It was originally, like, on... Paramount Plus, I think. Yeah, it's like a CBS show, I think. Yeah, probably Paramount Plus. My boyfriend, Luke Cage, is on it, which makes me want to watch it. I've watched a couple episodes. It's good.
Don't know why I haven't watched anymore. Yeah, my mom... was watching it and she was like you have to watch the show i'm like okay because i actually probably shouldn't have done this but i watched all of from like i finished season one and then i went through season two really fast um because i just got
subscription for a month so i could watch the you know for this so i was like i better watch the second season before my subscription runs out so i did i'm gonna try not to mix it up with these ones from the end of season one uh but then i did i didn't
have a show so i was like okay mom i'll throw you a bone and watch this show um it's actually it's not terrible it's like kind of cheesy now it makes sense that you said it's like a cbs show like i could totally see that just because i don't watch shows like that anymore you know what i mean since We don't have cable anymore. It seems like shows like that, I don't know. They just like don't really exist to me. I'm sure they exist, but I just like am unaware of them. And it's about a priest.
a clinical psychologist and a contractor. And it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but they all work together to determine whether their clients who are people that are asking for an exorcism are actually possessed or if they're suffering because of some. underlying physical or psychological condition um what i like about it so far i'm only at the beginning of season two i think i'm on like episode two of season two or something
But I thought it was really interesting the way they wrapped up the first season. It's like they have a main storyline going on underneath, but each episode is also kind of like a monster of the week kind of styled episode where they're dealing with like a different kind of evil. each time. What just happened?
And then by the end of season one, they actually kind of brought everything together in a way that made sense, which I wasn't expecting. I thought they was just going to be like monster of the week. But no, there's an actual main storyline. So I was like, OK, well, that's cool.
because I feel like too many shows like this, it feels like they didn't write or plan everything out before they started making the show, and then they're just kind of winging it and putting things together. So the way that it's put together makes me feel like they actually had a plan.
from the get-go and if they didn't then they're doing a good job at like faking me out so it's still fine so i'm excited to see where it goes and i think it It plays with some interesting ideas when it comes to like morality and corruption and good versus evil and science versus religion and things like that.
I'm intrigued by it. And it is kind of just like turn off your brain. I mean, even though it has these kind of deeper themes in it, it's also like a kind of turn off your brain and relax kind of show. So I've been watching it when I go to bed at night. a pleasant experience for me so far so i would recommend it if any of that sounds appealing um but that is and besides the boys um that you mentioned i've been watching that too i think i'm caught up on the boys so
But other than that, that's all I've been watching this last week. That's it. What about you, Tammy? What have you been up to? Not too much horror, because I've had some of my shows that aren't horror, like Doctor Who just wrapped up and some other stuff. But I did, since we last talked, I did go see Watchers at theater. It was fine. It was fine.
Overwatch. I'm in the middle. Did either of you start Eric on Netflix? I don't even know what that is. I'm going to say it's horrid. It deals with extremely horrifying... And there is a monster in it, but it's not horror, per se. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch and... Oh, I have heard of this. Yeah. Gabby... The actress with the really thick hair and the dark eyebrows that was in the movie about the lesbian pregnant couple that we just talked about. Oh.
I can't think of her name, but Gabby Hoffman. Yes. Thank you. Gabby Hoffman, which I like both of them and their son gets stolen and kind of just follows a lot, a lot of that. So I'm like, actually, I think I'm on. Episode six of eight. And it's quite good. But, you know, it's kind of like horror adjacent and very, very triggering. So I would put that warning out there. But if you think you can kind of deal with like some sexual abuse issues. and...
Child abuse. And I mean, I know that all sounds horrible, but trust me, there's like kind of like a good story. And then how this monster comes into it. It's interesting. I've never quite seen anything like it. I did watch Trim Season, I think, is the only news.
horror movie I watched and I watched it because it has my girl Alex Esso in it who I really like. It was fine. It has to I'll give it points for originality for sure. It's about like a witch who has her own own like marijuana farm and these kids come to work there for trim and they call it trim season they go in and like harvest all the pot and trim it trim it up and all that and kind of what what happens to them so
you like a 6 out of 10 like I didn't hate it and I loved anything that Alex Sesso is I could just watch her do anything so that was fine and then I watched a horror movie on Tubi called Bedrest which was also fine This woman who had just lost a baby.
It has a trope that I hate where it's like the pregnant woman must be crazy. Like no one ever wants to believe her. She had just lost a baby and now she's pregnant again. So she can't really be seeing ghosts because she must just be crazy. And I feel like that gets overused. lot, but it was, it was like, it's a 2B movie. So, you know, I mean, take that for what it is, but. Was it a 2024? No, I might be actually a little, maybe 22 or 23. It wasn't very old, but it wasn't like brand new.
One of the branded ones. Okay. I haven't been on in a while, so I figured maybe I missed the 2024. I'm sure I've missed a bunch of them. Yeah, that's it for me, really. There's been nothing. There's been nothing. I mean, there's the Exorcist movie. at the new Exorcist movies at the theater, but I'm not even sure I want to spend the $10 to go see it. I think there's some good stuff coming.
Quiet Place is coming out next week. We already got tickets for that. All right. I will be there for that. Maybe we'll have some good stuff to talk about. Yeah, it's one of the ones that my whole family loves. I think the first one is my daughter's favorite movie ever. Awesome.
excited for that. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah, my family, I know we all like the first one. I don't think my husband's seen the second one, but Raina and I, that was our first movie that we saw post-COVID in the theater was the second one, and we both really liked it. And it was so nice to like go back to the movie theater, even though we wore masks. I feel like those are good movies to see in the theater too. Yeah. Unless you have some idiot like making noise, but I feel like everybody wants.
to be really quiet and immerse themselves in the movie, which is fun. Totally. Yeah, I'll never forget seeing that first one in the theater. It was awesome. Very good. Well, are you good on your Fright Bites, Tammy? Yep, that's it for me. All right. Well, before we get into our episodes, we just want to remind you that our podcast is a spoiler filled podcast. So this is your warning. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Hey there.
Those are my fancy sound effects for you. Tammy, whenever you're ready, please take it away. All right, so we're wrapping up Season 1 of From, Episodes 8 through 10. So we'll start with Episode 8, which is called Broken Windows, Open Doors. I guess I'm just getting right into it. It is the next day, and Boyd is packing for his trek into the wilderness. So if you remember where we left off last time, there had just been the slaughter at Colony House.
We're in the aftermath of that now. He's covered in blood. Kenny comes in, and there's blood all over the floor. The survivors from Colony House have been rehoused in town, and Kenny suggests a town meeting, and Boyd agrees. but instead tells Kenny it's his turn to step up as he has important things to take care of. Boyd goes to Sarah in the basement and asks her to take a walk. And here's where we finally start to get Boyd's backstory. I couldn't remember. I didn't want to bring it up.
because I knew just last time we talked, Jessica hadn't watched up season two, but I couldn't remember when we got Boyd's backstory, but we finally get to get it here. We see him arriving with his wife and Ellis, the boat song that he. ...understood as his sign in an earlier episode, is playing on the radio. They are discussing how they can possibly buy a boat. They seem like a very happy family. We learn they are a military family. They surprise him by already having...
bought the boat for his retirement. Boyd slams on the brakes. There's a tree in the road. I did wonder with this. Because we had mentioned in a previous episode that like maybe one of the connecting factors for everybody is that like some sort of traumatic thing happened to all of them before they got there. So I was trying to think like I wonder.
something had happened to them that was kind of like traumatic before this really nice scene you know of him retiring and getting his boat and stuff um Or maybe they maybe that's why he's the leader. Like they didn't have any trauma. They had like a nice, perfect little family, you know, life thing going on. I don't know. But I'm trying to.
Hold on to those little like threads and ideas that we come up with throughout the different episodes to see if I can apply them to like different people's situations. But there's like so much going on, it's hard to remember at all. I do. I mean, I've seen both seasons and, you know, I still don't feel like I'm any closer to the answers than we are right here at episode eight. But I do feel like there might be something, something.
something to the fact that people might be bringing sets of skills with them, but I don't know how much weight or water that holds because what about all, like, you know, before they kind of figured out the talismans and all that, we learned just about, we learned this has been going on since Victor was alive.
little boy so probably hundreds of people have been slaughtered so is like whatever force possibly good starting to like recruit some people that have some skills to maybe start turning things around or because why else would it be bringing people Yeah, I was kind of having thoughts about this, too, because, yeah, it seemed like so many people had something traumatic or something bad that was going on, and maybe this is almost better, in a way, being here, and they seem like...
a happy family but what if there's two different forces bringing people in and so yeah there are people that have had bad stuff happen and then something else is trying to bring in people that can maybe help them Okay. And those are the people that can actually like hear the voices or see the boy in white and stuff.
Probably, maybe. And then you have some that like cross over because Boyd can do that and he has all the mad skills. So it's like he's like the super person, you know, like he feels where so many hat. I mean, like, you know, like before was was the evil force or whatever, just bringing in people for the fun of the slaughter. Like, you know, and what's weird, like these monsters, when they come, they don't they're killing just for sport because they don't get any. They're not like vampires.
who need the blood they don't like eat them per se they rip them apart but it's don't seem to be using them for there's like no reason for them to come and slaughter everybody they can find every single night And be so cunning about it and all that. So it's like, man, what was the reason for, you know, I mean, Victor looked like, looks like he's at least 40, I would guess. So, and like, maybe he was about 10 or 11, maybe 12 when he got there. So this has been.
going on for 30 years just my guess like what the heck at least Yeah, like, yeah, I mean, it could have been going on before Victor. We can just use him as we've seen a picture of him as a child there. So that's like one mile, like one lamppost we can go off of. But like, what the heck? What's the purpose?
I really feel like those creatures are more of a tool for something bigger. They're just killing. They're just having fun. They don't have any rhyme or reason. They're not bringing people there. At least I don't believe they are.
I think it's something else that we just haven't discovered yet. Yeah. And now that I've seen the second season, I totally get what you guys mean about how like there's just more questions now and still not really any answers. But it wasn't in a frustrating way. So that. was good at least to me I feel like they did a good job at like keeping me still engaged and entertained without giving me any answers that I wanted and that just intriguing me even more now I want to know about this and this
And I think they do a really good job. I mean, jump. The season ends, we see a bus pulling up. I know I'm jumping a little bit ahead, but my point is they have a really good pace of, like, bringing new people in to, I think, keep us engaged, you know, and there's just so many different storylines.
But I feel like we're kind of like finding out almost at the same pace of them kind of like new things about the town and, you know, things that could possibly happen. So this is one series that I'm like, oh, my gosh, this is so good. good watch him cancel it and i mean so far they haven't but i would just die if they like canceled it now you know that would have been if they like canceled servant halfway through or something you'd be like no
That would have been awful. That would have been awful. Moving on. Cut back to Sarah and Boyd in the Woods, if you remember from last episode of Doctor. Father Katria had hid Sarah away and then Boyd found out about it. So nobody at this point still knows that Sarah's out there. He won't tell her what he wants, but he asks her about the voices and what they tell her. He breaks the news to her.
that Father Khatri is dead. He tells her about the massacre at Colony House, which of course she was unaware of. She starts to cry, but Boyd's not having it, reminding her the only reason she's alive is because Father Khatri thought she had the key to getting home. And he has no problem putting a bullet in her himself. He cocks the gun and tells her to keep walking. I know. Cut to Kenny arriving home with the new people from Colony House. And Jade is like, what the fuck?
I know, very entitled. Very entitled to this house that he is also a guest in. He's also squatting at. Yes. And he even phrases it like... What? They're going to stay in our house? Like, it's not your house. He's just a nightmare all around. But he does have a good scene coming up later, which was nice to see. Cut to Julie telling her parents about what happened. She is back at home now. She says how Victor saved her by running into the forest and using the faraway.
trees. She said Victor said it's starting, but she doesn't know what that means. Ethan says you use the faraway tree and tells him what Victor has told him about using the trees to teleport. Teleport is my word, but I don't know what else you would call it.
He wants to go find Victor. Julie starts having a freak out. Jade barges in looking for Victor. Jade starts telling Jim about the symbol and what he's discovered, but Jim's not having it. He tells him that after he ran off their little experiment with the... radio worked. He actually got some static. Jade is shocked. Jim tells him he thinks if they can go higher, it will work.
Boyd and his family. It's so now we're getting we're back to Boyd's like beginning story. We're seeing they just saw the tree and now they're just entering the town. So we're seeing going to get his back story now. It's Twilight and they are entering.
They wonder where everyone is. Father Khatri runs out in front of them and starts on the spiel of the town, but they go through denial like everyone does at first. But it's getting dark out, so Father Khatri is desperately trying to convince them. They think he's crazy.
but then they hear the screaming coming from the wood. Boyd's like, what was that? And Father Cotter says, that was death. It's coming right now. Boyd gets out and they follow Father Cotter. They cower in what looks like a fruit cellar with Donna and Father Cotter. and a guy I didn't know trying to be silent. They hear them overhead and lots of screaming.
I think the guy in the cellar, isn't it that one asshole that lives in Colony House? Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. He's always giving Ellis a hard time. Yeah. Because he's been there long, longer than most people. That's right. So now he's. see, okay, he was there before then.
Well, and we hear everybody getting slaughtered upstairs. Did they, like, just because only six people could fit in there? Like, did they go to the one? Are there, like, these cellars all over the place? Because it was, like, under a sliding piece of, like, sod or something, you know, to hide.
it or whatever and you just hear everybody else getting massacred up there and were they just like too slow or is it just like first come first serve yeah we know that there's like hiding places everywhere um remember when sarah was telling oh about the barn
Yeah, the one in the bottom. Yeah, so they, like, know about all these hiding places because I guess they used to have to, like, hide out all over, you know, every night. But the scene was, like, really, really scary to me, watching them in there and knowing that...
They had to live like that for, like, 40 years or something before Boyd came along. All of them, obviously, but you know what I mean. Like, nobody figured out the talisman thing. Right, and everybody has a rough night at first, but this family... They just barely got there and got thrown into this right away. They didn't even get a lot of the verbal warning yet. You would just be like, I am having a nightmare that I cannot wake up.
from which we see is what abby eventually ends up thinking but um i just and your kids with you like i don't even know what i would do yeah okay back to Present time. Cut to Christy fixing Ellis' arm in the clinic. Fatima is with him. Kenny comes in and offers to help. He returns a book to Christy. She kisses him. He looks very pleased. Cut to Jade and Jim walking to Colony House. Donna is picking up body.
parts and crying, but they asked to talk to her and asked to build a tower on top of Colony House to broadcast. Donna is skeptical but gives the okay, saying 14 people died there last night and they might as well use the house for something, doubting people want to come back to live there now oh I felt so bad for Donna in all these scenes like I mean from this point on really at least what we have so far of the show Donna's going through it like I feel so bad for her and she's always
just trying to keep everyone together. She's a female void for sure. She's got that steeliness to her and just that ability to like, yes, all this is going on, but I absolutely cannot fall apart. It's everybody's looking to be. Yeah. They had really built a good thing there at Colony House. Like I think I told you guys, I feel like I would have chosen Colony House myself. So I think she not only had the death, she had a couple deaths going on, like the death of what they had built.
literally the death of picking up pieces of people and I think, yeah, had that not happened, I think they would have gotten a bigger fight from her about putting the tower up and, like, invading their space, you know? But I think at this point, she's kind of just like... do whatever the fuck you want to do yeah and her just like taking on the responsibility of anybody who dies from that house is like so heartbreaking you know and it's like i understand she feels responsible
But like, how can she put that big of a burden on herself considering like where they are? Yeah, just like Boyd, I feel like she has taken on that responsibility and she puts it on herself and maybe just like.
we will find soon why boyd feels so guilty about certain things maybe the way that she came in and watched her sister die while she just ran and hide yeah yeah she feels like she can't she can't do that again but now it's finally starting to like break down a little bit and we see her losing it yeah yeah I think she's carrying
Almost that same, almost that same guilt as boy when we find out what happens to Abby, that she probably feels that same kind of thing about her sister. Like, if only I had just A, B, or C, you know, even though there's nothing she could have, neither one of them.
There's nothing they could have done. They made the best decision they could. But I think it's something you would carry, which as someone who suffers from anxiety, like just to be able to put that aside and function every day, let alone be the person.
that's, like, going to be there for everybody else. That takes a strong person, for sure. Yeah. All right, back to Boyd and Sarah, who come across the shack in the woods. He tells Sarah she is going to wait in there. He will be back before dark. She tells him he doesn't need to wait. to handcuff her. She wants to help. That's all she ever wanted and he leaves her unprotected. Back to Boyd crawling out of the cellar on the day of arrival seeing all the dead bodies.
So there's a lot of going back and forth in time here in this one. He helps Abby up, which is his wife, and they are shocked. Donna says, welcome to your worst nightmare. Father Khadri tells them to meet him at the diner, and he will try to escape. Blaine. Boyd's family is going through the initiation process, asking all the questions. Father Cotry says they pretty much know as much as he does, and that is nothing. They just try to live through the night. Boyd starts coming up with a system.
how they need to start living as a team and gets them started. He totally takes charge. So he just... And they like just let him like, oh, my God, our savior has arrived. Yeah. I mean, and like seeing the situation that they're living with, it's not hard to see why he's compelled to like try to go out and do and find whatever.
can i'm surprised that like more people haven't done that to be completely honest but it's like finding out what we're gonna find out soon you can't really hold it against them you know what i mean it is like life Or death already. So, yeah, it makes sense to me. Yeah. Okay, so Ethan is at the table going through Victor's drawings. Julie's in the basement staring in the hole. She asks if they are getting a...
If they are still getting a divorce, she asked her mom if they are still getting a divorce. And Tabitha says she's not sure. And they discussed Thomas's death. So here we get a little more of the back story on the baby that that couple had lost. That the phone rang and they turned for one second and Thomas rolled off the table and died. And their marriage is too tied in this death maybe to survive. And pretending everything was fine just made everything worse. So as a mom of three.
I have for sure turned my back on my child for a second, you know. Luckily, nothing like this ever happened, but I just can't imagine because you would blame yourself. We have a lot of guilt in this episode, for sure. I appreciate, too, that it's not like some crazy unknown. illness or something that they do in shows you know it's like something that they could feel responsible for and something that like could happen to anybody and something that moms worry about all the time
And then they have to try and tell themselves like that it's nonsensical, you know, but then it turns out that sometimes it's not. And it's like so hard to be 100 percent responsible for this little tiny, fragile baby, you know. until they can get big enough to, like, if they roll off the table, they'll be fine.
But Raina, I know my daughter Raina rolled off my dad's bed that was really high when he was babysitting her once, you know, and stuff like that happened. So it's I appreciated that it was something that does happen.
and can happen in tragedy, but might not necessarily, you know? I turned my back on Landon once, and I mean, for seconds, and somehow he managed to stand up in his high chair, flip over the top onto his head. So then I'm... the emergency room with a kid with a you know and then they're looking at you like what did you do to your kid and it's like oh my god and I
You know, you feel terrible. But I do like that they don't blame each other. But I can totally understand that how a marriage that is just too tied with that one. It makes sense for a marriage falling apart. It was nothing that they did to, you know. And that's why I think they still kind of wrestle with because they do have feelings for each other. It wasn't like their relationship fell apart. There's just like this cancer in it now that they just can't seem to move past.
But, you know, there's still little nuggets there. We'll see. I mean, maybe. And, you know, too, and it kind of does get brought up, like, are things just better while we are here? Like, what will things be like when we go back? But I think they're at least now. starting to acknowledge that they do have feelings for each other and they kind of do know what the problem is. But I don't know if that problem is fixable. I don't think you can control how you feel about something like that.
Although after going through, oh, go ahead. Sorry. Oh, no, I just want to say, I mean, she literally told Julie, like, he is the love of my life. Sometimes I look at his face and that's, you know, I see this tragic accident. And I feel like when they were back home, it probably just got brought up so easily. Just your day to day life.
you know, nothing too crazy going on otherwise. But in this situation, they have to work together. They have to talk to each other. They have to trust each other. So maybe that is starting to build back their relationship in a weird but good way where it couldn't have happened if they didn't.
Yeah, it almost feels like this is one of the situations where them being there might be better for them. We've kind of mentioned that it's not necessarily true for everybody, but it seems like some people's lives were almost made better.
by coming here. Sarah kind of hits it. She doesn't say what happened, but she does say that her brother saved her from something. It almost seems like maybe the father was sexually abusing her. Something weird was going on there, and the brother, like, I think, took her and ran.
And then they ended up here. But she has said that her life was better here. So, like I said, I don't think it was better for everybody. But some people, this place is doing something for them under the most horrifying of circumstances, apparently. but yeah. All right. So this is Lou.
Oh, Mrs. Liu is keeping people from the diner who want to raid it for extra supplies before the colony house people do. So there's some people who aren't drinking the Kool-Aid that are just all kumbaya about everybody mixing in town now. Obviously, Colony House is empty and everyone has to be integrated into the town. Boyd shuts that shit down. He is the voice of reason and everybody backs down. Back in time to Boyd and Father Khatri at the beginning.
Boyd is trying to figure out ways to deal with the monsters and how to make things better. We find out that Abby, his wife, was a Marine. And Abby is just watching the townspeople, like kind of like staring off into space. And LSCs are doing this and asks if she's okay, but she doesn't seem okay. Back to Boyd and the police. Okay, back to my president.
time boyd in the police station saying he's staying now kenny is like what you need to do what you need to go it's the place is cracking up and what suddenly changed his mind he said the talismans were just temporary he needs to go He stands up to Boyd and tells him he's wrong and tells Donna she needs to get over it and go back to being a badass because that's what the town needs from them. So he kind of tells off Boyd and Donna. And then Kenny leaves Donna and Boyd.
And Donna wants to know what Kenny was talking about. Like, what does he mean that you need to still go, Boyd? And he's like, let's take a walk and I'll explain. Boyd has decided to, like, set out on a nature trek to try to go farther. than anyone else has gone before. Back in time again, cut to Boyd bringing a goat. And Father Khatri is like, what the fuck? And he's like, yeah, there's chickens out there too. Alice tells Boyd he needs to talk to him. Alice tells him something is wrong with mom.
And Boyd is not noticing it because he's too busy trying to organize the town and he poo-poos Ellis. Ellis says Abby needs him, but Boyd says your mom is tough as they come and tells them they will all talk tonight when he gets home. Ellis asks one more time, but Boyd says no. Boyd is in the forest marking trees when a dog approaches him. He tries to check the dog's tag, but...
the dog takes off. He tries to follow. Boyd gets lost and stays lost till after dark. He starts hearing the monster screeching and whips out his gun. He falls backwards into like a cave. A milkman approaches and others follow, but they soon...
turn around and leave something about the cave question mark then boyd sees the talismans hanging in the cave and figures that's why but we don't know for sure now do you think that the dog was trying to lead him do you think the dog is maybe trying to help in a way or just purely coincidence.
Well, the boy in white was there, too, for a minute, but it didn't seem like Boyd could see him. I think the dog is who tends to like if you see the dog, you see the boy. It seems like I in my mind, they're like forces of good. So I don't...
Did he follow the dog and then fell into the cave, right? Yeah, he was following the dog, and then the dog just took off and he couldn't see him anymore. And then he realized, oh, shit, I'm in the middle of the woods. I don't know where I am. And he was trying to get his bearings and getting dark and all that.
consider that but i i have noticed too what tammy said about how the dogs show up like with the boy whenever we see the boy show up so i had just kind of assumed that the dog was linked to the boy in white um and if we think that he's a force i know we don't know for sure but we kind of think that he's like a force of good um so that would make sense that he'd be using the dogs in that way now makes me want to go back and think about all the other scenes where we've seen the dog
and, like, if anything helpful came out of those scenes. Didn't we see a dog when Jim and Tabitha, in one of the first few episodes, when Ethan goes into the woods with Victor? Don't they see the dog then, too? So is the dog... So the boy was there, but... But Boyd didn't see him, but he was kind of behind him, so maybe he just didn't turn around. But is the dog real and the boys not? Or can the dog only also be seen by certain people and Boyd would have seen the boy if he had turned around?
It seems like everybody's seen the dog because even Jim and Tabitha have seen the dog before. Okay, yeah, yeah. I wonder if the point of that in that scene back in that episode was it gave... victor a chance to like give ethan back to them while helping them and then like also being like i have a gun um so maybe that that was the kind of like helpful situation in that
episode for the dog. Well, too, we have some magical animals, right? Like they say they don't know where the cows and the chickens come from. And the dog is an animal. So I kind of, I wonder, you know, like, what's up with the animals? Animals are magical. Yes, they are. Period.
Let's see. Back to present day in the clinic. Boyd comes to see Alice. He tells Alice he's setting off to find a way out of this place. Alice is not happy. Boyd tells him everything he would regret not getting a chance to say if something happened to him. leaves Donna sees Boyd off Fatima tells Ellis to get over himself and what happened which we'll find out here pretty soon what it was which he was blaming his dad for of which we are still unaware she tells Ellis to go after him or
he will regret it. Kind of a nice scene between Boyd and Ellis, I thought. Yeah, and I really like... fatima helping with their relationship because she is like an outside perspective but ellis trusts and loves her you know what i mean so it's like i'm just glad that he's receptive enough to listen to her um because she's obviously like
very wise beyond her years and all of that. So we find out too, it seemed like at like Fatima had been there forever, but we do find out she came after Ellis. So as long as she's known Ellis, he's been angry with his father. So the fact that.
she's able to see beyond that and still like counsel him in this way even though like he's had these feelings the whole time that she's known him i think she can see the good see the good in boyd so and probably too we find out or we i think we had found out by this point that something terrible had happened to her father so she probably she can understand like you know your father could be gone and how
that feels if you don't like set things right with them and then you don't have them anymore yeah that's very true Cut to Boyd returning to town in the daylight so that we're going back in time again. Returning to town in the daylight with the talismans when he hears gunshots. We see it's Abby, his wife, picking people off randomly with her gun.
she doesn't hear him she aims at donna who says please why are you doing this and abby says it's okay it's not real it's a nightmare and that she's trying to wake everyone up so they can go home and everything's going to be all right because you don't you can't die in dreams. Boyd is slowly approaching her from behind asking her to stop. He tells her all about the talismans. She doesn't believe he's real because he couldn't have survived the night.
which that kind of makes sense. He keeps trying to reason with her. Ellis comes running up and Abby aims at him and Boyd has to shoot her in front of Ellis. So here we get, we get, that's what, this is what happened. And this is what had driven. the wedge between Ellis and his dad all this time. Yeah, it was pretty awful. I did not want that to happen. It's so scary. And yeah, heartbreaking. It's like, and the look on Boyd's face and the way that he screams out.
when he has to shoot her, felt so realistic and not, like, acting. Like, there was a break in his voice. Why does he not have an Oscar? Like, if he is like this in everything he has... The dude. He's incredible. I think he's a really underrated actor. 100%. 100%. Oh, he's just. Yeah, that one scene, you can see every emotion going across his face. Like.
He's trying to calmly talk to her, get her attention away from Donna. But as soon as Ellis comes and he sees her point the gun, he doesn't hesitate. You can tell how much it destroys him, but he has to do it. makes those cries of anguish at the same exact time, and you're just like, oh, ah, God, it's just heartbreaking. Yeah, I have goosebumps right now thinking about it. He doesn't hesitate and does exactly what he has to do.
But, oh, my God, I can't imagine making that kind. But this this situation, too, I think you it's probably a little bit of their militariness coming out, a little bit of PTSD on her part and him being so no nonsense, you know. do what has to be done without yeah yeah my husband was in the army he's the exact same way i know in a situation like i don't i don't see him hesitating where i think i would but i i yeah i i see like you can definitely see that personality
And I've had the same thoughts about Abby. Like, is this PTSD? Were things triggering her? Which would be completely understandable. Or is the place getting to her? Oh, yeah. Is it a combination of boys? Was she hearing? Was somebody telling her something?
Like, you know, it's a dream. If you kill everybody, you'll wake up. She doesn't really say that. Like, where did she get the thought from? I didn't think of that, but that makes perfect sense. And plus, all we really know about her is that she's a Marine. So, you know, she's. seen some shit. So, you know, I think we've talked about how this place seems to know how to pick up people's weaknesses. So it probably...
What would have been able to say to her, you know, this this can't be real. And, you know, that's not really your husband. How could he still be alive? He was in the forest all night. You know, that can't you know, it was able to get in her head. And logically, it kind of.
makes sense because this world should not exist this should not be happening right i know and honestly like whenever i try to like figure out what the hell is going on in this place i kind of come to the same conclusion too like maybe if they die they just get to go back.
Like the real world. I think you said that the last time. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I don't know. That's like the only thing I could think of that makes any sense, but that place doesn't really make sense. So, but I can see somebody coming to that conclusion.
And, you know, when we were seeing her just staring off into space those couple times, she looked like she could have been hearing voices at that time, you know, because she seemed kind of didn't hear Alice right away when he talked to her and stuff. So she was definitely consumed with something.
thinking something. So, yeah, that could very well be. Yeah, I think Christine also reveals a lot. Sorry to cut you off. Oh, go ahead. No. Just one other point I thought of. I've always been wondering about, you know, like Boyd being the leader. And they're always kind of alluding to whatever Abby did. And I'm always like, why are they still so comfortable with Boyd, though, if Abby did something so terrible? But knowing that he had to take her out himself makes that dynamic.
So much more sense, you know, like that would probably just make everybody trust him even more if anything, you know, do anything. Yeah, that was all. Sorry. No, no, it's a good point. He leaves the sheriff outfit and star, presumably for Kenny. He heads off in the woods when he hears Ellis call him. He explains how it was the talisman Boyd brought back that saved him and Fatima from being killed at Colony House. He apologizes for caring.
the anger for so long over his mom and that Boyd has saved his life at least twice and tells him what happened with mom wasn't his fault. And this was so great to see because you know that's exactly what Boyd needed, finally got released from his guilt. Boyd says this is an
is not goodbye. Sarah comes out of the shack and Ella sees her. So now the cat's out of the bag. I was like, damn it, you're ruining this perfect moment. Now he's not going to trust him again. I was so mad at her for coming out. I'm like, why did you do that? Yeah. of all things, Sarah. I know.
She gets on my last nerve anyway. Boys tries to explain that he needs her and that he will explain when he gets back and asks Ellis to trust him and not say anything. Ellis says, just come back. They exchange I love yous and Ellis leaves. Boyd looks relieved and scared. Cut to Kenny addressing the townspeople and he has the sheriff's star on and I thought that was so cute. He explains that Boyd is risking everything to try to find a way home and that the least they could do is ban
together. No more dividing. They are a community now. Donna tells everyone that Jim and Jade have a plan for a tower at Colony House and that they should all help. Jim tells them about what is needed to get this built so they can all go home. Alice returns to Fatima, who asks if he is okay, and he says no, and she holds him while he cries, and the boat song plays. Boyd and Sarah set out from the shed. He handcuffs her, and they set off. And that is episode eight. Damn.
Good stuff happened in that episode, yeah. All right, here we go. Episode 9, Into the Woods. Boyd and Sarah are trekking through the woods. Sarah asks, how do you know this is the way? And Boyd says, I don't. I just follow my best hunch. back upon the cave stone structure whatever I call a cave before but now in the daylight it looks almost like a man-made yeah kind of like a little stone hut or something yeah but that looks like it leads down into a cave So I'm not sure what it is.
where he got the talisman. Sarah asks what that is, and Boyd says he doesn't know, but it's where the talismans came from. He says they are going to camp there because he's never been further and tells her to go in. Katsu Kenny and his mom in the diner, she tells him to go be a ghost. Sheriff.
Kenny goes out as Christy is coming in. They are sharing a book and she gives it to Kenny. Their conversation about a happy ending seems to maybe be about them in a roundabout kind of way. Donna is housing a lot of... colony house people in the sheriff's station and people are heading in for the night after helping with the tower. They are skeptical about the tower. Donna marks one on days without incidents sign.
So I kind of truncated this, but there was a guy walking in and she could tell something kind of seemed wrong with him. And she just kind of chalked it up to people aren't so sure, you know, how the tower is going to work. We find out that there was more wrong with that guy than that here in a second. Oh, yeah. Back to Tabby still digging her hole. Suddenly she's having visions of being in a tower of some kind, and she hears a foghorn. She hears a phone ring and a baby cry.
She keeps climbing the tower stairs and sees dates etched on the wall and Jim hanging upside down from the ceiling. I thought that was a really jarring scene with Jim hanging there. I don't know why there's scarier things in here, but I don't know. That one just was like.
And then she suddenly jerks awake. It was a dream. Donna wakes up screaming. Donna wakes up to screaming. And one of the guys has hung himself in the sheriff's station. And that was the guy that I was just saying that she had asked. OK. And he wasn't OK.
It's a colony house where they are working on the tower. Jim tells Kenny they will need more material to get the tower higher. And Kenny says he will send more people to the barn. Donna walks up and Kenny asks, where is Eric? Oh, Eric is the guy that hung himself. And she says he's not coming in.
I put here he must be the guy that hung himself, but yes, for sure, that's the guy that hung himself. Fatima and Ellis talk about Eric and the radio tower. Fatima says how hard it will be to reintegrate if it does work. which I thought was a really good point that hasn't been talked about too much. Like, say we all do get to go home, you know, but they aren't the same people anymore. Well, I like that analogy or whatever that Ellis brings up in that conversation.
like relating it to war and soldiers coming home which this is kind of a war zone all the things they've seen and gone and all this death and destruction you have military people there you have these confederate soldiers it's like There's definitely lots of little snippets of like, this is a war zone. Ooh, I didn't think of that, but yes, that's so true. Yeah, we know that like when soldiers come back, you know, that it's like really weird for them at first. Yeah.
Takes a long time to readjust. Yeah, totally makes sense. OK, back to Boyd and Sarah. Boyd is marking trees so they can find their way back. Sarah says, what if the woods? I thought this was also a good point. What if the woods are a big loop like the road and we end up right back in town? Oh, yeah. Boyd says he doesn't...
I don't know what I meant to put there. And he says that with our voices, how do you know? Oh, Boyd says he doesn't. And then he says, same with your voices. How do you know they aren't lying? So he kind of throws it back on her. She says he wouldn't understand. And he says that my brother would and she says my brother would. They said my brother would die if I didn't kill Ethan. And then that's what happened. They told her two cars would be arriving. So far, what they have said has come true.
puts Boyd up. Boyd instead takes off her handcuffs. It hits Boyd, and he says, I've seen this town make good people do bad things. So he is coming to understand her a little bit more. Back to Julie, Tabitha, and Ethan. going through Victor's drawings, making up a story that they need to figure out. That's what Ethan thinks. They need to figure out the quest. They discuss the tower and if it will work.
The when I get home, I game, which is kind of like the never have I ever, but like the opposite. Like when I get home, I, you know, I'm going to have a Coke and a hamburger or whatever. Jade and Jim are working on the batteries for the tower discussing more power and the reality. and the feasibility of the tower.
Cut to Donna crying in Colony House. Kenny comes in to say sorry about Eric and if she needs anyone, he is there. She says Boyd minded his own business and asked Donna if she wants to come and help. She is like, there's plenty of wood here, and starts busting things up in Colony House with an axe. Jim and Ken, or because Kenny had said they need more wood, and she's like, there's plenty of wood here, and she starts going all the shining on the wood.
Yeah. Jim and Kenny try to stop her, but she sarcastically says, your glorious tower is going to get us all home. We don't need this place anymore and keeps chopping. It's not a home anymore. It's a fucking tomb. She stops and everyone is staring at her. She said. She says fuck off and barrels out. She's losing it. She's a great actress too. Yeah, she is. The only other thing I've seen her in is that
Tubi movie. I think you really saw it, Jessica. I don't know if you both saw it. They came out this year with the actor that plays Alice, too. I can't remember what it was called. Oh, maybe I didn't even realize that they were actors in whatever movie it was.
I definitely didn't see it, whatever it was. Yeah, it was not the greatest movie, but they were both good in it. I think she's a really good actress. Was that the one with, like, the Halloween tradition? Yeah, the mummer mask thing. Okay. Oh, snap. I did not realize.
what that was and ellis was in that too yeah she plays ellis's mother in the movie oh that's so funny yeah that's the reason i watched i was like oh oh they're doing that is so bizarre yeah it was not great it was definitely a tubing original yeah well some of those are pretty great so you always got to give them a try at least exactly
Okay, back to Boyd and Sarah marking their trail. She talks about Nathan's theory about this place and how the more they tried to leave, the harder it would push back. Another good point. They hear clinking and follow it. It's bottles hung in a tree, which Sarah questions because Boyd said no one had been out that far before. So who hung these bottles in this tree? Like a giant wind chime.
Boyd sees there's notes in them, and suddenly the voices in Sarah's head go nuts. She grabs her head, screams in pain, and has a seizure. Back to Donna in the bar with the bartender guy. He comments on it's her first time in there. She says at least here she is. can be alone, and on cue, Kenny walks in and asks for a few seconds alone with Donna. She tells him to fuck off back to his fantasy land. They end up discussing the tower. Kenny says it's worth trying, but Donna is worried about when it
the impact that will have. They got people's hopes up and there will be more Eric. She has seen this happen. She's not grieving Eric. She's grieving what they almost had. The colony house was special. They had joy for a little. while anyways and now it's fucking gone so and she's and she's not mad at really she's like eric chose the way he wanted to go out and she kind of supports him and she understands that she's just more afraid like you know when this doesn't
People have had their little ideas before, and then it goes bad, and then you're stuck with what's left. And she's kind of being more practical and worrying about that. Well, yeah, and she takes on that responsibility of everybody's life.
For some reason. So I'm sure it's very worrisome to her or especially worrisome to her. And she doesn't have colony house anymore, which is, I think, her comfortable place and where she felt in charge. So she's probably kind of feeling like she's flapping in the wind a little herself.
You know, totally. Cut to Jim at the table thinking Ellis checks on him and asks about Jade and updates Jim on the supplies. He tells Ellis he will figure this out. Ellis looks dubious and leaves. Kenny is ringing the bell for days.
like Boyd used to do, walking up and down the street, ringing the bell, saying it's getting dark out, everybody's got to go in. He comes upon Christy upset outside the clinic. She knew Eric, he was a friend, that he was good to her when she first got there. She tells Kenny...
to promise that if it all falls apart, he will come to her and talk to her and let her help. He promises, they hug, she doesn't look convinced. Jade's setting the table while Mrs. Lou prepares dinner. He's talking to her slash himself about how he's genius. So, the thing about Mrs. Liu, I think she probably can understand English and maybe just doesn't speak it very much, but...
I mean, I don't think he's on drugs anymore. I'm not sure if he has any more laughter, but he's totally always acting like really ADHD and like he's hopped up on coke and stuff. He's always just talking about how great he is. So he's like in the kitchen setting the table and Mrs. Lou is just like stirring her stuff like, oh, you know, doesn't this guy ever shut up? Yeah. Well, we know that he at least had weed for a while. Yeah. Because I think he has like a last blunt or something.
or joint that he has to smoke at some point. And he's like, this is my last one. Oh, that might be in like this episode or the next episode, actually. It's right when they're about to. Yeah, it's coming up. It's coming up. Yeah, that's right. Because then he doesn't do it and he ends up doing something else. And then that's his sweet time thing that we said.
coming out he has one good scene and we see a little bit here um so he's talking to her slash himself about how he's a genius and how much pressure he's under and how jim looks down on him this part was so funny she yells at him actually in english You so much complain, complain, complain, stop complaining. And he says he looks like really ashamed of himself then. He's like, I'm sorry. And then he and then he suddenly says, holy shit, I know how to fix it. After she reminds him that if he needs.
It's electric. It's in the houses. So about her saying that. And he's like, he has a eureka moment. Jim gets home. They are all still working in the basement. Julie asks about the tower and says it's going to work. Jim asks how she knows. And she's like.
what if we were supposed to come here and how the family is really back together as a family and things are just better all around. She asked him to come help with the hole. As they head downstairs, we see the lights flickering upstairs, but they don't. So like they start. heading downstairs and the lights are flickering in the house but they don't see it Boyd and Sarah are in a tent in the dark with a talisman hung up which I could not stay in a tent out there I don't know about you guys
Even if I had a talisman, I'm like, why didn't they just stay in that cave? Why are they in a freaking tent? Sarah was passed out. He got a bottle. He was able to get one of the bottles down. He opens it, and the note inside it says, 1864, and that's it. I actually, sorry, I wanted to cut you off here. Nerd that I am, I had to, I went down a little rabbit hole with this because I had to look it up. I wasn't completely sure, but 1864 is like in the middle of the Civil War.
okay so i was like is this a thing like the the bottles and the trees and it is It's actually a tradition that started over in Africa, in like the Congo, that slaves brought over and continued over here in the South. They would...
hang bottles in trees or actually put them on the branches to catch evil spirits. It was like a protection thing and it was sometimes placed in like... important areas and i was like that i was like why didn't i even think of like looking that up like i just thought it was a random thing and this time yeah like i don't think it is random wow i don't think it and i know uh when she was having that dream
about going in the tower and all those dates were etched in the tower 1864 is one of the dates that's on there so yeah but I didn't know anything about the whole Africanist and all that so maybe we can deduct that this is an important spot at least. Oh, that's very cool. I thought it was really cool. And one of the articles that I read
I thought it was weird. One line, it says that they were hung from trees and huts like talismans. They actually used the word talismans in an article that I read. And I'm like, the word they use in the show is a little rock they put in the house. Yeah. It's very interesting. Oh, you're so smart researching stuff. I'm like, yes, I have to wait until they reveal what this is. Well, my family says that I'm a nerd because I'd go down these rabbit holes and I'll look up something.
something and I completely miss everything and I have to go back. Nice. I think I only really do, I do that with like bugs and plants. That's about it. I don't research anything else. We're all nerds in our own way. Well. And maybe they give their talismans the power or something, because the talismans were right there. So, I don't know. Or the talisman cave or whatever was right there. Yeah, it's going to be.
Yeah, but they're never brought up again, are they? At least not in the next – I hope they just don't forget about them. Like, I want an explanation now. Yeah, so do I. I'm hoping that it comes back around. I know. We need a list.
I hope and I think they're just story building at this time because having seen... two seasons like I said I know nothing more than anybody who hasn't even watched this yet really so it just it's all going to come together I'm sure but there's just so many layers to this cake here yes I hope that they come back to everything in a satisfactory way.
Like, what is up with the Civil War? I don't know. I know the first time I watched this, so this is my third watch, some of the stuff felt random. Now, the more I think about it or look into stuff or talk to you guys and you...
and bring up something I hadn't thought of. I was like, no I was like these guys know what they're doing yeah like these layers all make sense they all fit together so I'd be surprised if it kind of falls apart because it really feels like everything is very deliberate yeah I think especially because they're worried about it I don't want to wait. I don't want to wait for season three anymore. All right. Sarah says the voice was different. This time it was a woman.
And she was screaming that she was wrong, that they shouldn't have come, that there are things out here that are worse than the monsters. She says it doesn't make sense but to tell Mr. Fish and Loaves that I was wrong. Boyd looks stricken. She doesn't know. We know from the scene of Boyd and Abby that that was his nickname in the military. They hear voices outside like or noises outside like wood breaking and something starts throwing them around in the tent.
Something didn't like her talking about the voices, maybe. Or it was going to happen anyway, I don't know. Maybe it didn't like Abby feeding her information. Do you think that was really Abby's voice? If it is really Abby, I don't know. Because there's like a couple of scenes later where I'm like, would real Abby...
say that. You know what I mean? But she did say the fish and loaves and we did hear her say that earlier. Yeah, but even the monsters can like know everything about them. But she did say this was the first time it was a woman's voice. Yeah. It could be something messing with her, but at the same time, they don't reveal, like, what is throwing them around. So maybe they were pissed at Abby. I think they want us to think it's a giant spider, so I don't know.
Oh, maybe. Oh, I don't even want to think about that. I don't like the theme coming up. All right, back to the hole digging. Tabitha says they've reached the bottom. Back to Boyd and Sarah being thrown around in the tent. The talisman is gone. He finds it and quickly hangs it back up. Sarah says, we shouldn't have come here. Boyd says, it's okay. We're okay. And Sarah says, no, I don't think we are.
And a horn blares and a bright light outside, which looks and sounds like a lighthouse. And that is the end of Episode 9. Any nuggets of wisdom? No, just more curiosity. All right, last but not least, episode 10, Oh, the Places Will Go. Ethan is playing with his finger puppets that we saw him with the very first time we ever saw him.
The kind that you used to get out of the treasure box at the dentist when you were done getting your teeth cleaned. Those kind of stuff. The little monster guys. Or out of the gumball machine. Yes. He's playing finger puppets in bed with Julie. They hear urgent.
knocking downstairs. It's Jade yelling he's got the solution and starts setting up in their kitchen table and explaining what he's found. Back to the tent and Boyd and Sarah. There seems to be slashes in the tent, but they seem fine. It's daytime now.
She asks if he thinks the bugs and animals know where they are. And I thought this was a really great thing, too. She asks if he thinks or does he think the bugs and animals know where they are and about the monsters? Because she kind of comments like she had a little an earthquake.
And she's like, do you think this earthworm knows that we're someplace weird or does it just think dirt is dirt and it's just going about its life? So I like that too. He says he doesn't know, but he thinks it's time that they. They go outside and everything is covered in giant spider webs. And I mean everything. And Boyd is like, what the fuck?
Cut to the diner where everyone is gathered and Jade explaining what he's discovered and what they will need to make it work, i.e. lots of wire and cord. Real ones that came in with people when they arrived, not the fake stuff from the town. Jim says if they all work quickly, he can start sending a transmission by nightfall. People disperse, and Jade takes off on his bike, but Julie stops him and says, Hey, his name is Jim. The bike he stole, you mean. Yeah. His name is Jim.
My father's name is Jim. Jade had been calling him Teacup. I'm looking at the map at the police station. This is the map that marks where everybody had come from. And when you see it, like there's like literally tax across the whole United States. Kenny says you missed the speech. Donna doubts the tower, but Kenny tries to stay positive, saying radio waves can do things that we cannot.
Kenny goes to help Christy strip the ambulance. Kenny has his globe lamp from college. He has a list of the places he wants to go inside the globe and shows it to Christy. And it's written on like one of those long CVS receipts. works maybe we can go some of these places together and christy you can see kind of gets kind of like and she stammers and she says i like you a lot but i'm engaged you know that kenny apologizes and leaves take the wires and he's mortified.
Tabitha starts on stuff in a shed. The bartender who opened the shed for her tells her he doesn't believe the tower won't work. Tabitha starts going through the stuff and finds a pickaxe and looks very pleased. Cut to Colony House. And I was like, why does she look like... Either she's pleased that she has a weapon or I think she thinks she can use it to get through the cement in the basement.
Because she had dug down what she thought was the bottom. She's trying to find where the wires go. That's why she's digging this hole in their house. But she reached like a cement floor or whatever. Cut to Colony House. Ellis asked to talk to Fatima alone. It's important. They go outside and stop at what Ellis says is the very spot he first saw her when she arrived. He says he's thought and realized that he can't be without her and proposes to her. Aww. Aww. Aww. Aww.
Back to Boyd and Sarah walking through the spiderwebs. Boyd wants to find out where the bright light came from and goes the direction the light came from. She asks about fish and loaves, and he admits that it's him. So in doing so, he admits... that her voices are right. She asked if the female voice could have been Abby. The voice said to go back.
Boyd hears a woman calling for help. Sarah can't hear it. He sees Abby caught in the spider webs. She grabs him and he runs, like scared runs. She scares him. And now there's spiders everywhere on him, biting him. Sarah pulls them off. She asks what he saw, and he says nothing. So he saw Abby, but she didn't. I'm trying to remember, does Abby say something when he confronts her in the spiderwebs? Because I feel like she did, and that was one of those scenes where I was like,
Maybe this isn't real Abby. I thought she just rubbed her mouth and screamed. Maybe. It was like unnaturally wide, and then she just like makes this ah sound. I don't know. No, I think you're right. I think maybe it was just her kind of like pulling him away.
way and then that ends up like he gets covered in spiders because of it i was like maybe well something about her face changing like that he immediately wanted to get away from her so i think whatever it was about her he realized it wasn't really her and then yeah i hear
comes all these biting spiders. Right. Maybe there is like real Abby, but then also something like fucking with him and trying to use, you know, Abby's projection. Well, yeah, I mean, showing as Abby, you know, it's the one thing that for sure will get him to run over.
there and maybe that's how it needed to get the spiders on him because we find out the spiders bite him and like are like poisoning him or something he's like getting sicker and sicker so I don't know why they weren't just throughout all those
spiderwebs they seem to just come from where Abby was so I'm not sure. Yeah maybe that was something bad like luring him over there and then like Sarah couldn't hear or see her this time but she could the last time and normally Boyd can't see or hear her so. That makes me think. And I thought maybe he was just imagining the spiders, but she was actually pulling them off. So those were real to them. Yeah, I thought that at first, too, that they were fake. But then, yeah, she was pulling them off.
Okay, back to Colony House and everyone is working. Jim asks Julie if she's okay. She says she's good, but she doesn't seem like it. Ethan says he wishes Victor was there, but he has to do his part of the quest. Doing this is their part. Back to Sarah and Boyd. She can tell Boyd isn't feeling right and says they should stop. Boyd insists he's fine. Boyd starts crying there's no way out and how this place fucks with you. He thinks it's feeding on his pain. He falls to the ground in pain.
and he says he doesn't feel right. It's getting dark, so Sarah says they have to keep going. Boyd says there's no way out. They're going to die out here. So it's definitely getting to Boyd. This is a big shift. We don't usually see him break down like this. She reminds him of Ellis, and that gets him moving. And there seems to be a storm gathering, too. And I think whatever the Force is, is making this storm in response to them putting this tower up. my opinion, but...
Okay, back to Colony House. They are hoisting up the tower onto the roof. Jade gets on his bike, and Jim asks where he's going, and he says to get his rolling papers. And the... And this is his good scene here. In the Liu house, Mrs. Liu is at her husband's shrine when Jade comes in. He's surprised to see her. He tells her they might be going home. Jade talks about his childhood and how he hated leaving.
leaving his grandma in France after she died. And he's saying this because he can tell Mrs. Lou is upset, like if they do get to go home, she's not going to be bringing her husband with her because, you know, at the beginning, Sarah had left. He left the door open, and he was one of the first people that we see get killed way back in Episode 1, I think. So he's telling the story about he was raised by his grandma in France, and when she died, he had to go live with his uncle, and he was only 12.
really upset about having to leave. He felt like he was leaving her in France and leaving without her. And he tells Mrs. Liu, don't... be sad and don't feel guilty because we bring people with us when we go is what a lady had told him at the airport. And so that's what. He says to Mrs. Liu, and you can tell that kind of, like, makes her feel a little bit broader. And she asks him in English to pray with her, and he actually agrees. That's really sweet.
It's a really sweet scene. It is. And it's the first time we see Jade acting like a normal person. Empathy, yeah, and not thinking of himself. And I think Mrs. Liu might be one of the few people he actually has respect for. because he seems to love himself, and that's pretty much it. He might have a little for Jim, or he's starting to have some for Jim, but I think, like, he has real respect for Mrs. Lou. Oh, I agree. And it's because she hasn't taken his shit from day one either, though. Yeah.
I think like when she snacks him in the with the spoon and that's when he first comes to the diner. He's like, I like you. Yeah. Back to Jim showing Ethan how the tower radio works. Jade and Mrs. Lou arrive with snacks. They're ready to. Try the radio. Christy talks to Kenny in the kitchen. She gives him his lamp. He apologizes for making things weird. And she talks about how hard of a situation she is in.
But and she's kind of wondering, do the people back in the real world, do they wait for us? She says she has feelings for both of them and they hold hands. So she has a girlfriend back in the real world that she's engaged to. But she's also admitting that like. This is kind of her life now, and she's not denying that she does have feelings for Kenny. So it feels like she's in kind of a tough spot.
Everyone is gathered to watch the tower. Jim gets static and a signal, so it's working. He and Tabitha kiss each other and tell each other they love each other. And she leaves, and there's it. But there is a huge storm on the horizon. Back to Boyd and Sarah.
need to take shelter from the storm. They hear that horn again. Boyd is struggling, but Sarah convinces him to just keep going and the horn gets louder and then they see a lighthouse. So it's striking when they see that because it's like, oh my gosh, a real thing.
Back to the radio, Jim is transmitting SOS Mayday on different frequencies. The storm is really close. Donna warns the storm is too close and to pack it in, but Jim doesn't want to. Ethan goes in and Donna starts helping with the radio in his place. Suddenly hear a hello. Is someone there? Is this Jim Matthews it asks? And Jim is stunned. It says your wife shouldn't be digging that hole, Jim. Now what the fuck? Jim runs off home to where Tabitha is digging.
She falls through a hole into like a sub-basement. A light comes on behind her, and yay, it's Victor. And he says, the boy in white said you would come, and I should wait for you. Victor says, we have to go. It's not safe here. This is where they sleep. There's drawings all over the walls, but Tabitha does go with Victor as the house starts caving in. Jim runs in yelling for her, but no answer. He sees the hole in the floor all the way to the sub-basement, but no Tabitha. Back to Boyd and Sarah.
Boyd can't go on. He tells her to go on so they don't both die. Sarah hears Sarah look up, and she sees the boy in white. He tells her Nathan was right about this place. It's angry now, and you have to get inside, and shows her where to go into a... tree she helps boyd up and they go into the tree boyd goes in first but immediately finds himself in a closed in space no sarah at the bottom of like a long vertical chute so imagine like a chimney with no body
And he's stuck in it down at the bottom and it was, I don't know how maybe 10, 15 feet up. So he just, that's where the trees. put him and he has no way out. Yeah. Cut to the empty diner where a song starts playing on the jukebox. I think I'd like to go home are the lyrics. And we see a bus pull up outside. And that is the end of season five.
no I want more especially now that you've seen season two right it's like I just want to talk about it now yeah i almost went right into season two after finishing this last episode i was like no i should wait because i'm just going to confuse everything yeah they're watching it though yes i know i was thinking right now like wait doesn't this thing happen right now and then i remembered oh no that's the first episode of season two. So I'll have to wait.
to talk about that but wow well i will i hope this encourages a lot of people to watch this who haven't and in my opinion as wonderful as season one is season two is even better and it just builds and you learn a lot of things but you also get a whole bunch of new stuff dumped on you. So you're just as lost at the end of season two. But don't let that discourage you. It's so excellent. Yeah, and it looks like they're already approved for season three at the very least, right? Yeah.
I follow Harold on Instagram. I remember, I think it was a couple months ago, how he posted how they were filming season three. Nice. I'm so looking forward to that. guys are right. If this was on Netflix, I think it would be like in the top 10 immediately. It would be huge. I really would. Yeah, I know. I think they did a disservice like having it on NGM Plus, unfortunately. Yeah, like who has that?
No, and Chappawait was on MGM+, and nobody watched that either, so it got canceled, and that was such a freaking good series. It's good enough to get picked up by the bigger guys, and it's just, yeah, hot. super lame. Well, I do have a monstrous mention before we go. Did anyone else want to say, Oh, actually we should, we can actually like rate the show now because we were waiting until we got to the end. Go ahead, Nicole.
I actually thought about that. I was thinking about this at the beginning before I went in with my third rewatch of the show. And I feel like I like it and I pick up things every time. Probably the first time I watched it, I was thinking like... probably around a nine just because of all the questions and things like that. And it was a little frustrating, but now having seen it several times and watched season two, I'm more invested and less frustrated, even if they're not giving us answers.
Because if they give us too much all at once, it's probably not going to be as interesting. I like figuring out these little things throughout the episode. And I'm like, I don't know if I should do this, but I feel like I have to give it a 10 because I can't think of anything that would bring it down.
a little bit i mean i i've had tiny little questions and nitpicks but i feel like it's it's nothing i was like this is probably one of my favorite shows i can't think of anything wrong with it anything that i would change nothing 10 out of 10. I need my bell. I need like Boyd's bell. More cowbell. Well, I'll go. I mean, I'm just going to mirror everything that Nicole just said. It just gets I probably would have given it a 10 from the beginning, but now it's like a 10 plus plus.
Yes, I have frustrations, but they're fun frustrations. It's like the kind of frustrations you like having and you don't mind because you're just so invested in it. I mean, a show that makes me want to keep watching like this. I bring up other shows.
It's like, oh, yeah, I'm on. I don't know why I quit watching it. I was on episode three or whatever. With this, I'm like, this was my second full watch of it. And you just didn't even want to stop. You just want to keep going. And you're just like, oh, I got to know it.
happens next and you care even the most extraneous people in here it's like you care about everybody and you're so invested yes with all the major people but there's so many of them it's like that's a lot of people that have to get behind to really care and care about all the different little side stories and everything. But everybody has their purpose, and it's just so interesting. And the acting for a bunch of pretty much no-name people is off the chart.
I think. And I mean, nobody can beat Harold, like we said, but it's just so good. And I just want to get scream from the rooftops that if you haven't watched this, you need to be watching it. It's just it's such a top notch show.
As much as I love the writing, the actors, I feel like, really pull it in. They got some amazing actors. I remember the first couple episodes watching, and I can't remember his real name, but the guy that plays Ellis, I thought that that was really good casting with him and Harry Potter.
playing father and son. Yeah, everybody, even characters that annoy you, that frustrate you, that make you angry, it's like they still have little moments. Sarah does that for me, but it's like she's playing that irritating. hating girl really well. Like, she's supposed to, you want her, sort of want her to get eaten, but you sort of also want to know what she has to offer. You know, it's like, ugh! I don't know, though, but whenever she's, like, overcome by the spirit, Oh, God.
The first time I saw that scene, I thought she was faking it, but I'm like, no, she's not faking it. He seemed like he was faking it. Maybe we were supposed to question if she was faking it. I don't know. Or she's a dad. I'll give her some leave.
kid kid actors in here who aren't actually even good you know and that not well you have one little and then a teenager but they're good even like Ethan is a little irritating but I mean I think he's supposed to maybe be kind of whiny you know it's just his age so i think he's a normal kid his age and i honestly think he's going to be more important than we realize he's definitely connected to victor and the whole thing with the quest and figuring stuff out and i know it annoys people
But I almost think that when Sarah was told to kill him, like, and she didn't. And, oh, if you don't kill him, this is going to happen. This is going to happen. I was like, the first time I was like, was that like a warning of this going to happen? No. think it was kind of like a punishment that something whatever this thing is out there wants him or needs him dead
He's important for some reason, I think. Because it's like, why would you be asked to kill a kid if this is some good force that's trying to get you out of here? That doesn't make any sense. We didn't talk about it much, but the guy playing Victor, we kind of lose him in the last couple of weeks.
episodes but because he's off doing whatever he's doing we don't find out for a while yet but that guy's great he's playing someone on the spectrum really really really well if you google him he looks nothing like he does on the show really yeah because I'm also one of those people I have to like google everybody have I ever seen them in anything is there anything I want to watch
Yeah, and I saw a picture. I was like, that's not him. I'm like, oh, my God. Like, he looks like 20 years younger. He's actually a really good looking guy. He looks like a musician type guy. Oh, ho, hippie. Yeah. Yeah. yeah he's kind of cool but he's yeah and he's i feel like he's connected to the matthew family in some way like he keeps saving them he's helped ethan he literally he saved julie he saved tabitha he's
That's so true. And he's going to keep saving Tabitha coming up. And I do have some ideas about that, but that's more like season two. I don't want to bring that up. But yeah, it's like there's so many.
little things done back totally well my rating comes with a caveat because because the show's not over yet and this is definitely a show where the ending matters and i will admit that there are great shows with terrible endings and i'm still glad that i saw the show right like i'm still rating it highly um
But it's like when they miss right at the end, it's so heartbreaking. So it seems well written. It seems like they know what they're doing and they have a plan. And I feel like that's the biggest thing, you know, is like just actually having that figured out before you go into the. season, which a lot of shows just don't do for some reason and I hate it.
But my rating currently is eight and a half. But I do really like the show. I think the only thing for me is just like there's so many characters and so many storylines. Even just when we're reading our outline and it's like cut to this. You know what I mean? They're like one sentence per storyline. Like it almost feels like maybe just a little too much sometimes because I want to feel more like connected.
But it's like I only get little snippets with everybody. So I just feel kind of divided amongst all of them. But, yeah, I love the show. It's really good. And I definitely recommend it. I definitely don't want it to get canceled. Please let me finish this show. Please go watch it. Go subscribe to MGM Plus for a month. Just do a free trial just to watch it, yeah. Or, yeah, if you haven't done your free trial. I did already a long time ago, but.
I think the subscription was really cheap, though, anyway. It is a pretty cheap one, at least. That's why I was like, I'll keep it. I know I'll keep watching this. I don't know what re-watch my daughter is on. She's obsessed with this show. Oh, I love that. That's always so cool.
I do have a monstrous mention. It's been a while since I've brought up a podcast, except for, you know, like our special guests that are podcasters. So I wanted to pick one of my favorite podcasts, which is the pod Mortem.
The Podmortem, you join Renee, John Paul, and Travis every Monday as they discuss, dissect, and riff on horror films. And they kind of, at least for me, kind of inspired me to want to do... the similar formatting of their show as far as like deep diving because they'll pick a movie and then I think Renee and her brother Travis switch off every other week like who's going to do all the work.
And they write, they're like writers. I think Travis is like actually a legit writer as his career. And then his sister Renee is just like really good at writing and she loves reading and stuff. So they write these like really beautiful summaries for everything and they go super in depth and they get all this like background information.
But they're the first podcast that I've heard where I feel like they were able to pull that off successfully because any other podcast I've heard where they do that format. To me, it's never really worked. So they were like really influential in me.
wanting to do something bigger like that with a podcast but they're awesome and hilarious they're so funny um Renee I feel like the sister brother dynamic is just so adorable it's so cute and they have all this background you know like inside jokes about each other and it's i just love that dynamic and then john paul is actually renee's husband um so they're really cool they all have like different unique perspectives and tastes.
And I definitely recommend them. They have an All My Links where you can put links for everything that, you know, instead of like telling everyone all your different links. So they have an All My Links. You go to allmylinks.com.
backslash the podmortem, and you'll see they have podcasts wherever podcasts are found. You can buy merch at successprintshop.com backslash podmortem stairhole merch store. You can also... follow them on letterboxd they're uh the podmortem on there they're the podmortem on twitter and instagram as well um they have a youtube channel all this stuff you can get them a coffee
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