The trailer starts like...four or five hours in to the nine hour series? And has plenty of footage from the very last two episodes. Like, for me the beginning parts with the world going to hell and people wandering around it deserted while Flagg gathers his people, those were the best parts before King had no idea…

“ I forgot how both of them start so strong and finish up a mess.”

Just reread the book (I last read when I was 12, nearly 30 years ago) also rewatched the 1994 miniseries. I forgot how both of them start so strong and finish up a mess.

I’ll say this for the Walking Dead, it remains the only post-apocalypse on a TV-budget in which the sets look convincing. This looks so...clean. 

I was an 80s teenage girl who loved both Star Wars and Dirty Dancing, but I can kind of see this.

Why he couldn’t just get a divorce/abandon his kids (while leaving every one alive) like so many other deadbeats do is beyond me.

Until I saw the documentary, I thought he’d just snapped.

I’m so bummed I didn’t have room to go into Leti and Ruby’s scenes in this episode. But I think you are making some great points. 

I mean, *I* was kind of FUCK THAT GUY bc I’m angry at the patriarchy, the white patriarchy, rapists, etc - it channeled my rage as well. also, who knows what kind of violence he’d already put upon black bodies. I know we’re supposed to turn the other cheek and shit, but you can’t ask Black Women to continue to go high…

I think this was actually really interestingly worked through between Leti and Ruby in the episode.

I felt that message in their interchange was, “yes, rage at Emmet Till, mourn him, but do not pay in your own sanity.”

Montrose talks about the rite of passage that Dee “must” experience, but the scene between Leti and…

Dr. Bradley laments that we have lost so much in our watered-down recollections of the Civil Rights Movement, especially when we discuss the tragedy of Till’s death.

The choreography of the Topsy twins was just so awesome and freaky at the same time. 

If wishing some of these selfish assholes could take a 6 month jaunt in MS-land is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

I just caught the first episode of SC Season 6 on NF last night -- heavenly!!! Written by David Levy -- wonderful script, cast in fine fettle...

Easy!

It is a lot of white women (and men) who need to feel flattered and have someone tell them they are amazing and they are the only person who can see it and blah blah blah.

I read that sentence several times because nowhere in my extensive and obsessive research of this said that they were married but according to Wikipedia they were married in 2017 and it was only revealed during the trial. Apparently it may have been a sham marriage for Visa reasons (Nicki Clyne is Canadian) 

I think a lot of it is that although, yes, Lovecraft is synonymous with “cosmic horror” (something of which I’m a big fan), the book and the show are more about the period he was writing in/from, and the subsequent influence he (and other writers from that period) had on/in the culture. I think (though this is just my…

Great cameo by Garnet from Steven Universe:

I mean, at the second episode, it was very clear that this was an anthology series with through-lines, and I don’t know that it’s fair to expect things to wrap up in a cohesive fashion. That’s not what the show’s trying to do.