Watched the first few episodes. My unqualified SwiftDog opinion is "meh".
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Watched the first few episodes. My unqualified SwiftDog opinion is "meh".
Hey Swifty, how is it going? May I ask up until which episode you've viewed? Reason being is that the first three are a bit odd, but the pieces didn't come together for me until Ep 4. Please stick with it. Even if you don't enjoy it, I'd still like to hear your opinion.
I agree.I just finished it.I guess this is one example where we all have our different opinions. Scary? This series was scary as $@#* to me! I am much more frightened by the horror of drug use, betrayal, isolation that the children endured than any monster or jump scare can provide. Poisoning a child while you are stuck in a dream. Nope! The final thought that time is not a straight line but "each of our moments falls down all around us like confetti"? Terrifying!! Nell as the "bent-neck lady" that she was always afraid of? Horror at it most gripping to me. I read the article that Steffen posted. There is a follow up link that suggests that the director didn't intend it that way and we should take it at face value. I'm not sure. I cringed at the cake and wondered. But I hoped. I guess there is always hope.
DO NOT WATCH IF YOU HAVE NOT COMPLETED THE SERIES.
Luke and Nell are my favorite characters. I like the song, too. ("Ghost of You")
Same. I was on the fence about his adaptation of Gerald's Game but this show was a homerun. (BTW, what a genius use of song lyrics matched with great editing..."I drown it out like I always do, dancing through this house with the ghost of you...".)Indeed. Their stories are so tragic. This show convinced me that Mike Flanagan is the right pick for Doctor Sleep.
I don't remember anyone else having brought that up, but a very good point. Not sure.I just started watching this a couple of days ago and have only seen episodes 1-3. I love it so far. There is one production issue that I find kind of odd. Why doesn't Henry Thomas play the older version of himself? Of course, Timothy Hutton is great in his role but it seemed odd that they used two different actors for that role when it's pretty easy to make a guy in his 40s look like a guy in his 60s.
I haven't read the posts above because I haven't finished the show so hopefully I'm not duplicating a previous comment.
I don't remember anyone else having brought that up, but a very good point. Not sure.
Glad you are enjoying the series. I look forward to your posts as you continue the ride!
I don't remember anyone else having brought that up, but a very good point. Not sure.
Glad you are enjoying the series. I look forward to your posts as you continue the ride!
Good observations on that and I agree.I finished the series last night (and I loved it) and I think I have an answer to my Henry Thomas / Timothy Hutton question. In the final episode, the older Hugh and the younger Hugh are in scenes together and I think having two different actors makes those scenes work better.
A similar thing was done in the movie Love and Mercy (the bio-pic about Brian Wilson). Paul Dano played the younger adult version of Brian and John Cusak played the older adult version of Brian. Having the two actors playing the same character worked great in this instance because the younger and older Brian were very different personalities and there was a lot of going back and forth between time periods and it really helped keeping the time periods straight as you were watching the movie. Awesome movie BTW.