Welcome to the show . My name is Alex and I'm Lizzie and this is what is from cast , and we are reviewing a rewatch of episode one . I'm sorry . Season one episode for a Rock and a far away so I just want to thank people that are listening in , either on Instagram or on the what is from channel or Facebook or wherever you are .
If you want to put stuff in the chat , you're more than welcome to . But the more important thing is , this is a pretty epic episode for us .
Yes , it is . It's not right up on me .
It's not great up on us , I know . And why is it ? It's our 50th episode and I Can't believe it . You know some people are Commenting . I just want to show one of the comments , hey , john , and hope you guys are having a great night and you're having a great night too .
And I have Some other comments from some people , but you know he's asking about the vibe . Sorry , I'm trying to do three things at once here and if you guys are the one .
I know , let's try to narrow it down to one if you want to hit the subscribe button please and you know we're trying to get to that 500 , 500 mark on our Instagram , on our Facebook , on our YouTube . I am , I am so out of , I am so out of it today . It is not even funny . I'm like I'm so off . So let's like rewind here and and get into it .
Let's just get into it .
So what were your first thoughts on the episode ?
You know , I continue to be blown away by how fresh this actually looks , and at this point I'm probably into Well , into double-digit viewing on the episodes , but it still hits me as if I haven't seen it before . It's just so very sharp .
You know , it's funny . It's just funny because every episode seems to be epic , yeah , and you think it reminds me a lot of the walking dead and , in terms of , you think that it can't get any better . And then it does .
I mean , they've only had 20 episodes and right now we're on episode 4 , but it seems like every episode is a piece of the puzzle , as you like to say , and and I forgot what happened in this episode a lot of things happened and there's a lot of foreshadowing to season 2 , which I find really kind of interesting .
You know , we learn a lot if we're looking back at what happens to Sarah . That's kind of an important thing that happens to Sarah . So , you know , my first thoughts are basically the same . It's like every time we watch this , it's like , wow , yeah . Now I want to talk about the cold open , because there was none right and I and I want to .
Yeah , no , which I want to point out is that you know what ? I think that they have the the balls to do a cold open , and then they have the balls to not also do a cold open . Yeah , and even though they didn't do a cold open , it was pretty powerful that first scene .
Well , I quickly forgot that they hadn't . So Before we begin Going through the scenes , any comments you want to throw in ? Has anyone made any comments ?
Oh wait , I do have one comment . Okay , and it's from , it's from , wait , let me just find it , cuz it , I had it in my email . Oh yeah , wait , it's from Nova Scotia . Hey , what's up guys ? Hey , I'm gonna .
I want to say congratulations on your 50th episode , and I got some people here , I'm sorry .
There's shadows but you know we're working , we're trying to get it done .
All right , you guys congratulations oh . Oh my god , I can't believe you didn't even tell me oh , my god , and I'm going back and forth with Liz .
So , just so you folks know , I have been working on this for weeks . Okay , wait , let me first say I have been working with this for weeks , to the point where Liz Saunders actually Instagrammed me on my other podcast cause she didn't know that you didn't have access to it . And you know what folks ?
I know other people are freaking out too , and I wanna tell you , if it wasn't for this lady next to me , to my left or right or whatever it is , you know what I wouldn't know what it's like to be a big time podcaster , and what do I mean by that ?
You know it's yeah it's funny because I don't see myself as that at all .
No , what I mean by that is . What I mean by that is , when I say big time , the fact that we're podcasting on a show and the fact that they know about us . That's what I mean by big time .
And when we started this thing and I know we've said it a thousand times before we connected about two years ago at Comic-Con and she had this idea and I thought she was full of whatever , because I'm like , yeah , okay , whatever , you know , let's do this . And she has been amazing and I wanted to surprise you with this .
I told you I had something that I couldn't tell you about , and I have another thing , but it's not here yet , so , but it kind of got lost .
But I just wanted to , you know , surprise you with that little one and I couldn't be more surprised and you know I forgot what I was gonna say , but I'm blown away Like they . Like the cast of From has helped us so tremendously and have been so incredibly gracious and kind and generous like generous , and I'm I can't believe it . I am just Alex .
Thank you so much . That surprise , you know , shar , I was locked out of the car today with Charlotte inside .
I know we're not supposed to laugh , but knowing her , knowing you , I'm laughing .
Well , I'm standing in this parking lot that is notorious for being somewhat dangerous , you know . You just have to walk in and come back out , and I was outside for like an hour and I didn't have my coat . Thankfully it wasn't too cold , but it was kind of crappy . So , oh my God , like it's amazing how far different a day can become in one second .
Well , I just wanted to also tell you . Liz Moy and Scott and a whole bunch of other members of the cast wanted to say congratulations to you and to me , and I've been kind of trying to keep it all under wraps .
But I just wanted to say thanks because I didn't think I'd ever do a podcast for this long , and it should be longer , but you know they had to go on strike and you know that's why we're here .
We would probably be pretty close to watching season three right now .
Or we'd probably be going to closer to 70 episodes , it's all right , we're gonna be there pretty soon with this podcast . We're gonna be there pretty soon , that's right , so let's get into it .
Now that we freaked her out and , folks , like I said , if you guys are into the show , like we are , and you wanna hit the subscribe button , I wish , unfortunately , I could have captured your face on camera , because I wanted to try to do that , because , folks , she's like this , she's like this , she's like this and she was freaking out .
So I just I was like what's going on . I just like what is going on and I'm just going about making videos this week and have a new file .
Like all right , let's talk about young Victor and folks . If you have any oh my gosh , please put them in the chat .
I'm gonna monitor them and just so you know , I might not be able to get to them all and I'm not trying to like bombard Lizzie with all this stuff , because I know how she wants to hit me over the head with her files when I start bombarding her with stuff .
But Well , it's not that , it's just I lose my train of thought so easily . I'm trying to be honest .
You know what I mean . I have my skull with my candy . It's my Halloween one on it . It's so I am ready to go . So what do you want to talk about when I purposely wore this because of young Victor in the cellar , so go .
Oh , okay , all right . So the first scene opens with the root cellar door and you know coming open and you don't know who you're going to see . But out comes Victor with the lunchbox in his hand , and it's little boy , victor , the young Victor .
Eli .
Eli right , and you can hear a dog barking in the distance but you don't see the dog .
And the root cellar , you know , based on what I've seen , is that road , that dirt road that goes up to Colony House and it's not far from the town , so it's closer to the town than it is to Colony House , and there are dead and mutilated bodies on the road , on that dirt road as Victor's coming out , and it looks like there's two bodies and two random legs
and I kind of thought that the bodies had their all their legs , but maybe I just couldn't see it well enough and it was an arm or something . And Victor stares at the bodies and holds the lunchbox to his chest Like he's just like this .
And you know , you look at a kid that age and you just feel for them you know he's freaking , freaking out and I don't blame him because I'm freaking out .
I mean just the bodies like and I know this is not , it's a funny thing Like how long did they just sit there before he did anything with them ? I mean , you know what I mean , like when you think about it .
I mean , that's something to think about , because he did something , you know he was the last one in that town , but the realization that I had is that this and this was after , you know reading I went back and added this note that this episode is about Victor realizing it wasn't just a bad dream , because this is something he talks about in season two , and
this is why I like this rewatch , because we can reference future episodes , because we're not trying to keep things under wraps and not , you know .
Right , I mean we're not trying to spoil what's gonna happen . Well , it's out there . No , no , but my point being is but at the same time , we're trying to stay within the episode , but if there's other things that come up that are related to it , we're gonna talk about them .
Yeah , yeah , and I know that sounds kind of weird when you say it that way , but it's so true because you know , we're not , yeah , we're not trying to go after it , but that scene was and we talked to Eli . I talked to him once , which we were gonna eventually re-interview him to put on the podcast . But you know , that takes a lot .
I don't know how these kids do it . I mean , I know you've worked with kids that work in horror . I mean , that's some really freaky stuff , yeah , and as an adult , I'm freaking out with it . I can't even imagine what a kid like that at that age is doing , freaking out with that .
Yeah , I mean some that stuff can be scarring , which is a lesson we learned from Linda Blair , and consequently I worked on the Exorcist .
Right .
The Lover and I was at Days of the Dead this weekend and the child psychologist that worked with us on set came and sat with me at my booth for a while and you know , I , the girls were , you know , pretty well adjusted .
I mean , they would be laughing , skipping , giggling all the way into you know , the chairs , because they'd be strapped in and they'd be in that stage four makeup which Christopher Nelson and his amazing team would apply over multiple hours . But they would be laughing , giggling and all of a sudden it would be like an action and then boom just demons .
And then the scene you know they'd yell , cut and they'd be back to gilding again . So our psychologist had a lot to do with that .
Well , and that's what it's about . I mean , maybe we should even have her on sometime , because I think that would be kind of a neat little twist to what's going on here . Yeah , possibly Possibly , but let's get back to it and so the second scene is Colleeny House .
in the sitting room Victor is drawing Julie as she sleeps on the couch and Julie wakes up and freaks out yeah . So Victor notices and says you notice how sometimes you dream and you forget , but then later you start to remember and you realize that it wasn't a dream and all of it maybe really happened .
I know it's just like so .
Oh my God , what's going on , right ? So Julie looks at him with no idea how to respond to this upon just waking up , because remember the only other time she met this guy . He just comes creeping into the kitchen looking for peaches and they get .
Gotta have some peaches having some personal space , right ?
So ? And he says I think I'm starting to remember things , things that I thought were dreams . I made you a drawing and he hands her . He hands this to her while she looks at him like he's nuts and he says you can keep it if you want . He gets up and walks away Like it's just so strange , and she doesn't realize .
Let's see , julie gets a big dose of Colleeny House . The first thing is modeling for Victor . The next thing is lessons on sharing with Trudy , which we're about to cover . So he leaves and she says she does the oh my God , what just happened ? Thing . And then Trudy comes over and says good morning , sleepyhead . It's about time you woke up .
Can I have my pillow back ? And it's like , okay , like when you're using something that you didn't realize that belonged to someone .
Right right , right right .
You would have asked permission to use if you'd known . So Julie apologized and says someone just gave me this last night . I didn't realize . And Trudy's like , oh no , it's totally fine , I just want to take a nap , which makes me wonder what time of day it is if Julie's just waking up .
And it's like what do they have to do ? I mean , it's not like they're doing anything .
And you know what ? I do know someone that would get up early , go for a long run , come home , eat breakfast and then take a nap . So she says you can keep it if you want . And then , oh , wait a minute , that's the wrong one . So then she says it's sort of like a security blanket for me .
And then Julie apologizes again and Trudy tells her not to worry about it Me pillow , soup pillow or something . Her name's Meredith , and it just reminds me of me naming stuff that really has no reason to be named .
Everything should have a name . That's important .
I feel like everything is important to me .
No , but you know I love how they bring Trudy in . And again , I say this all the time you don't want them to kill anybody , because they do such a great job with these characters .
Oh my God , actors on this show .
But it sucks , because if they don't kill somebody , you know .
But they could have found a red shirt for that episode that Trudy gets killed in . I think Trudy would have been a lot of fun , and you know what ? She'd be even funner if she came back as a monster .
Oh , my God .
Maybe that's in store for us , so .
Here's the line . Here's the line that she says Bitly said it , it's on the screen . Things that matter to you should always have a name .
Yes , julie . Trudy turns to go and says you know , it's kind of funny , I have a shirt , just like that . And Trudy says oh , I know I got this out of your suitcase and I'm like no , don't go in my stuff . Julie is incredulous . Like she had said in the last episode , I don't want anyone going through my things , you know .
And Trudy says you don't mind , do you ? We share everything here . And Julie's like I guess not . And Trudy thanks her for taking care of Meredith and walks away . And Julie is wondering what she got herself into and wondering if maybe Colony House was Isn't the place for her ?
Yeah .
I want my mommy . Yeah , cause like she's being thrown into in a sense , well , a version of the grownup world , you know , where everyone's treated kind of the same and casually and they have this certain type of respect .
So let's see , and then after that . I'm sorry .
Then the get to me is like you have nothing . When you live at Colony House , it's like you have nothing , everything can be taken away in a second and your life becomes something else and like because you , you share everything , there's just nothing . So onto the third scene . Or did someone have something to say Up ?
Bitly says . I think that there is a reference to the monsters knowing their names .
Oh , not here , Not here . So the third scene , and I think that's bitey .
Oh yeah , that might be bitey . Yeah , I might have said it wrong . Well , I love wait . I titled this one particular section Wheel Barrel Frank because , as we learned from Bob Mann , he actually had to make an appearance twice in this episode one as a corpse and the other as a corpse with legs or just legs , yeah , yeah .
So now we're in the town , outside the box , and Boyd brings a wheelbarrow . I hate saying that word . I want to say wheelbarrow , but it's wheelbarrow . Yes , yeah , like for years and years .
I thought it was barrel .
I know Barrel makes sense . I'm going to have to look up the origin of how that came together . I mean , what the heck is a barrel ? All right , you know what ? If anyone that's watching can take a look at and see if there's a definition for the word barrow and let Alex know , that would be great .
So Boyd brings a wheelbarrow with supplies to clean up the box and take care of . Frank Frank's got . His body is inside the box , main body intact . The legs are off . He's missing some fingers . Townspeople look on and I love how they let Boyd do the heavy lifting there . They just watch , right , boyd looks over .
Oh , I know , like nobody helps him , god forbid anybody else no one helps him .
So Boyd looks over Frank , puts gloves on and mentally prepares for what he needs to do . For Boyd this episode is about the serenity prayer . God , grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change , the courage to change the things I can , and the wisdom to know the difference .
So I just felt that , going through this episode with Boyd the fourth scene is just the diner . Sarah enters to Mrs Lou crying and Mrs Lou notices her and tries to dry her eyes and says something to her and Cantonese . Now I just want to point out this is the morning of day three , so we're on day three of the Matthews being in town .
I'm going to keep track . Oh Crap , I forgot to send you the music . At any rate , that's okay . The fifth scene is the Matthews house kitchen and Tabitha is sitting with her head down on the table with a cup of tea in front of her when Jim comes in and Jim gently touches her head and Tabitha wakes up .
She'd fallen asleep after making some tea and Jim wants to open the curtains to let in some light and she doesn't want him to yet and she says I used to love this time of the morning . Sometimes he'd stop crying just as the Sun was coming up .
It was like he was saying and she cries you've been up all night , my work is done , and I'm sure you know parents of young babies know that very well . She cries some more and Jim sits down and she asks if Jim thinks that they are being punished .
She tells him that she's drinking tea out of a dead woman's mug in a place that can't possibly exist , in a house where another child died and Julie's off doing God knows what . So she feels like her family is Essentially just scattered to the wind and I think she's thinking it's her fault .
Ethan comes in asking if Tabitha is crying and she tells him that she has a headache . Jim puts Ethan on his lap . Ethan misses Julie . Jim suggests that they go down to the diner and partake in the big community breakfast . Tabitha asks them to bring her something back while she unpacks and organizes and Jim and Ethan go .
So what I want to talk about here is , you know , tabitha is wondering if they're being punished and I have a note to myself to look back at last week's notes and All right . So the difference between how Jim and Tabitha see things and this is something they both kind of all . Right , maybe I don't need to For e4 . Oh , this is what it is .
All right , the monsters for Jim is everything it was before Thomas died and he can still hear it , see it all of it . He's still there , he's stuck and he's trying to figure out a way so that they don't end up like them , which is lost .
So and and she's just looking at it like you know we're in jail , you know we've been sentenced and now here we are in jail . So the sixth scene up . Does anyone have anything to say ? No , we're good , all right .
The sixth scene is back to the town , outside of the box and Boyd has Frank's body in the wheel barrow with the same stupid townspeople looking on . That could have helped .
Boyd has Blood on his clothes and he covers Frank up with some canvas and boys starts pulling the wheelbarrow down the road and All I can , all I hear , is Monty Python , bring out your dad . I remember like when I used to work in an office and I have to push this cart around every once in a while I mean going by the cubicles , bring out your dad .
And Someone always knew what I was talking about . But when ?
I'm not dead yet . I'll come back .