There’s a very wide misconception about memories that can surface in cases like these. Most people believe that a memory is a simple record of what happened; it can be forgotten or suppressed, but if/when it comes back what you witness in your mind’s eye is what happened. Research has shown, though, that memories…

9/11 caused the blind almost psychotic worship of The NYPD & FDNY & 20 years after that shit it is time to take a hard look at both. Fuck them all. Brave? Depends on your definition of the word. Going to fires is part of the job they signed up for. Real bravery is acknowledging the pain and suffering of the oppressed.…

Also, the kids that Dowd calls “clean and upstanding” start the movie as literal drug dealers who revel in seeing their classmates get murdered on the news.

Yes, the fact that they were bold enough to kill off characters they’d given real arcs to that close to the end, with no cheers, no “glad that asshole’s dead,” was a notch above.

But she didn’t actually throw it -- remember she got that nosebleed, so it was like whatever supernatural force was already at work

plus the homage to Scream is truly introducing Scream to a new generation, I know it’s canon for a lot of us, but not for a lot of the teens on netflix.

I’m surprised the review is so consistently negative - sure, it’s not a particularly innovative film or aspiring to be high art, but it captures the feel of the books and is fun! It’s a stylish and gory popcorn movie.

I agree, there really isn’t much to complain about in this other than I think it would have been a more clever movie if the character of Kate was the lead, instead of the broken home hero trope. I didn’t get bored once in the film and the bathroom trap scene was memorable!

I’d actually rate this slightly higher in the B- area. It’s not bad. It’s not going to redefine horror or even netflix movies but it’s enjoyable in an RL Stine sort of way... 

I quite enjoyed that. Best slasher I’ve seen since the Babysitter and a much better cast than that movie had. I’m actually interested in the mythology of the killers here rather than it feeling like pure mcguffin there. B+ I was actually upset when a main character died in a slasher. They deserve major props for that 

It may be junk to you, but he has inspired a love of reading for 2 generations now.

Also apparently believes that semen has mood altering properties?

And fact-checkers.

Anyone spot the stuffed monster doll sitting on the shelf at the station Christmas party?

“more gracefully”? There was an episode where Hitler shows up. The original show never subtle. It beat its message over the viewers head because it was the 1950s and that was necessary and in 2019 it’s still necessary.

Everything up to Neil’s house was excellent - particularly:

No. Subtlety was very much needed and lacking here. This was a pretty great episode for the first two-thirds. In tone and writing it actually felt like a Stephen King take on a very familiar story. You’re right about the tension and dread. Then when Steve Harris entered the story it devolved into a shitty ABC…

I thought this was a good episode overall, but also, god damn, the racist cop was incredibly on the nose, then in the coda, the second the granddaughter picked up the camera, it was ludicrously obvious that she would drop and break it. Might have been more clever (and felt more Twilight Zone) to have her accidentally…

Am I being dumb, or can you only watch this if you subscribe to all access? Because I want to help give this show the numbers to keep going, but no way am I subscribing to something just to watch one show. So I’ve been pirating it, which I feel bad about, it just seems like a stupid move on CBS’ part for a show they…

But can’t you be destructive as well as self-destructive?  Or does one rule out the other.  (I am not trying to be a jerk here, I honestly think I almost get what you mean but... not quite).  Certainly I’d call Chet’s behaviour self-destructive but he also was definitely destructive towards others.