Yeah Hawkins are a crunch not a puff which is why I didn’t get angry not seeing them on the list. In terms of cheese crunches however they get the top spot. 

Yeah glad my skepticism saved me from building up hope for this. It wasn’t *bad* but it was unnecessary. It does nothing to improve upon the original and lost so much visually. I still have amazing memories of the colors in the original even though I haven’t rewatched it since it aired. 

I don’t think she was ever searching for him, or anyone. That’s just what she needed to say in the moment to best manipulate him. As you said he’s all about his desperate need to be loved. 

But have they checked the tuna for s(k)atanic influences?

Honestly thought this was one of the strongest episodes. It works as both part of the show and as its own standalone being.

Nah definitely not just you. I had a brief moment of ‘did they swap the voice actor’ before realizing there was just some sort of new rasp to it. 

Preferably neither but if there needs to be one make it kewpie mayo.

Horror producers need to get their hands on the folks doing the metamorphosis sequences stat - those were some amazing body horror effects. Better than a lot of big budget films have been managing. I know this isn’t a small budget production as TV goes but I doubt it compares to the standard film budget even then. 

Vought wants happy little consumers reveling in their base instincts and they don’t care how ones gets to that point. When Homelander (50s Apple Pie conservatism) stopped doing the job they switched over to Stormfront (Modern era alt-right) just the same as unrestrained capitalism did in the real world.

Someone really needs to point out to these directors that it’s not the 90s anymore. ‘Darker’ does not automatically equate to better let alone good.

They established that her sign language is self-developed not any of the standard ones. 

Yeah they kept the right themes (and I think often grow them out better than the comics did) and toned down the ‘dark and gritty for dark and gritty sake’. It is still dark, it is still morbid, and it is still bleak - but in service of the themes not just because it can. 

Yeah definitely the weakest episode of the season even if I greatly enjoyed EllaMaze

I was ok with it since it wasn’t played as a ‘shocking’ reveal. Linda was an unprepared young mother, she panicked, she regrets it - we might not have known it before, and the writers likely didn’t either, but it is realistic, relatable, and doesn’t actually change anything we knew about her as a character. It adds…

I wonder if the lack of press screeners is ‘we think this is bad’ or ‘we desperately need any single asses in chairs so we can massage the stats to look like an improvement to shareholders’

Definitely the strongest gimmick episode, and likely the strongest episode period, of the (half) season. When you realized Lilith was unable to let go of her trauma and insisted on passing it on to her children you knew there was no way her story would end well even if *she* thought she was ready to move on. 

Maybe they sell weak-ass natto near me but I never understood people complaining about the smell. There seems to be barely any. I can understand not liking the texture (the main reason I don’t eat it often) and I can understand not liking the taste. But the focus on smell always seems strange to me.

I always set a low bar for adaptations, just to keep myself from being too disappointed too often - but I clearly needn’t have worried here. That was an utterly amazing hour of television period let alone for ‘genre’ fare.

A little neat, a little easy, but a decent enough wrap on the season and the epilogue was a great wrap to the series. In a better world half, or all, of those would be spin-offs to keep the universe going. But, for lights out, I’m satisfied with it.

If you’re not going to not steal from other languages due to cultural appropriation at least don’t steal from other languages because you’ll often end up looking like an idiot.