I remember 24 hours being one of my favourites reading it, and after watching the episode I decided to dig out my big leatherbound volume one and revisit it – and my god did they ever improve upon the source material here. The episode far exceeds the comic, which horrors are juvenile and far too “edgy” in comparison.

What a terrible take

I mean, it’s the best movie of all time so ...duh?

4. His partner. He had a cut off “love you” at the end of the call.

I’m pretty sure you could hear a faint groan when he asks if he’s okay. Also the neck snap itself was clearly fake.

Re-editing no. Sure, but they’ve definitely gone back and edited Vecna’s grandfather clock sound effects into pivotal scenes in previous seasons.

Joe Cocker a bit more famous (and diseased) than Sampa but ;)

No this is a myth, one of which you can just turn on any Apple TV+ show to debunk yourself. But it is happily kept alive by mystery show writers (or directors in the case of Rian Johnson) who want to use or subvert this trope.

It kind of felt like this was though

The idea of fairy markets (which does not appear to share the same root etymology as the word Fair ironically), where the fae would trade with humans, is mostly from Celtic mythology.

Still playing up the 24 Apple plot by having the main suspects / villains using non-Apple devices in this episode, namely Will and Cinda

Last week had a lava lamp in Oliver’s apartment. Both just hinting at things in the episode, and probably themselves obvious red herrings distracting from the lights probably blinking in morse code or something.

She pointedly tells Charles that she absolutely did not text him. It was him just not believing her. There was no “killer using Detective Williams’ (DaVine Joy Randolph) phone”.

So it’s definitely Will. You know why? iPhone ringtone, but picked up with an Android phone. Classic call back to 24s “villain is the only one not using a Mac”, but with a twist.

He’s also awfully keen to steer the podcast in certain directions

“millennial texting lingo”

I’ve only gotten this far so I can’t comment on further development, but I trust the show to know what it’s doing and a character introduction that’s almost a repeat of the previous is so sure to be a red herring as to be a trope.

Proud to see my hometown girl Sampa the Great get recognition!

Sandman is most certainly not MCU ;)

Rap beefs just ain’t what they used to be