1. Why the fuck would he keep the hammer? We know what she was beaten to death with, just wipe it down and leave it in her studio like a hitman leaving the gun behind. Or throw it away someplace random. Do NOT hide it at your summer home.

I had to rewind to see what the big deal was. “Oh, his wife was forced (bfred side note - on purpose) to admit he WASN’T really as empathetic as he led people to believe. Guilty!”

But sledgehammers self-submerge!

I’m REALLY pulling from memory here, but recall that he wasn’t necessarily fat, just carried around more soft weight than someone his age should. Regardless, the proto incel label is spot-on. He’d been ignored his entire life and it poisoned the way he interacted with people, especially girls.  His insecurities were…

Yeah, reading through these comments reminds me that many of them were just very matter-of-fact people who appreciated the structure after the chaos of Trips.

She looks a bit healthier than she did in The Hangover; too skinny.

I don’t know that it was better, but definitely a more realistic look at all the people who manage to barely hang on in that town.  There are FAR more of them than there are superstars like Kirk Lazarus.

Murphy’s mounting paranoia over Martin’s guerrilla filmmaking is priceless, as is his halfwit brother.

I remember the pretty compelling opening credits scene from the previous miniseries, but IIRC the virus gets loose because one tech or security guard realizes what’s been released and instead of being a good soldier and sealing himself in, slips the gate. That could make for a great opening as well.

Been a LONG time since I read it, but weren’t the ones who gravitated to Vegas mostly damaged in some way that Flagg could exploit?

His physical transformation as he stopped eating candy and drinking Cokes all day, coupled with the exercise of constant walking and being in the sun, was a big part of his emotional evolution as well. He lost weight, skin cleared up and got some sun. IIRC to his sister and her friends (and most other people) he was…

nice

We’re down to three million videos!  That won’t last me a week!

User error strikes again.

I was frankly expecting a cotton candy-colored vigilante movie. This sounds smarter than that.

And so now you’re socializing an ever-increasing expense, but because it’s behind the scenes and buried in their income tax payments people don’t see those increases first-hand. It’s just moving money from one pocket to another without addressing the actual issue, and probably makes the increases worse.

Co-sign on that. 

This could have gone terribly in so many different ways, so after reading this I’m actually psyched to watch it. I don’t normally let reviews overly impact my movie choices but if my reservations had been confirmed this one was probably a skip.

Red licorice - that’s good!

True autonomy in a decade? Not sold.