TBH I think it would be pretty easy to cover up foul play in rural New Mexico in 1946

I stopped on that one actually. The ones before it are not up to snuff, I think. The one about the ghoul and monster festival at least had one of his signature endings.

Hulu going all in on the Nathan Balingrud business... Nothing from Wounds was quite as good as North American Lake Monsters but then, I’m not so into the Hellraiser side of horror aesthetics.

New James Grey? Please forgive me if I act a little strange

That’s fair. I assumed they flew, in which case it could have been isolated in storage. I also assumed that Yuko doesn’t give off the smell of rot, for whatever reason - it seems like her young maiden facade is an actual physical patchwork of skin, which I don’t think would mask it if there was indeed any.

PS when I say “someone else should be doing your job” I mean the writer Sean T. Collins, for not committing to a really rather basic amount of synthesis. Chester actually seems like a decent translator, he could have kept doing that job were it not for these meddling wind spirits

This episode was a step toward the first season’s focus on dialogue, which wasn’t quite as wooden as it has been in episodes past. The interrogation scenes worked quite well. The fundamental flaw of the season remains, however - they can’t seem to hem in the events of the story. At the end of every episode, at least…

His mom also claims not to remember what it was like to birth him. Curious!!

My guess at this point is that Chester was a stolen baby and Yuko is his mother

It doesn’t surprise that it’s all connected to the Remedy-verse… I’m not charmed by shared universes anymore. I don’t know if I’m just getting old or I’m burned out on how the whole concept has been turned into terrifyingly vast, invariably Disney-owned monocultural franchises.

Or: we could not do this

The first season was a far sight better than the book, so they can do what they want tbqh

I guess it’s encouraging to hear the environmental storytelling is good. Alan Wake had some pluck but its literal first words are “Stephen King once said…” and it only gets more ham-handed from there. From all the studio’s talk of Weird Fiction I was worried they’d basically do the same thing but with the Annihilation…

Funnily enough, back in the mid 2000s Obsidian Entertainment (of Fallout: New Vegas fame, late of Microsoft ownership) was contracted to develop an official Snow White prequel RPG called “Seven Dwarves”. They got some ways into pre-production when Disney realized that a weird dark fantasy take on their IP was not what…

The word for being compelled to witness the inevitable is “suspense”. From Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie chapter on Lovecraft:

I was glad to see a different reviewer assigned to Mindhunter S2, little did I know it would turn out to be one of those careful-what-you-wish-for things. Setting Sean T. Collins to review a show with a gothic approach to horror (the old definition of gothic being a “comfortable terror” of slow boils and psychological…

Also, I know it’s not the right place to ask, but is The Terror review game dunzo?

It kept bugging me what this show was trying and not quite managing to do, until I realized how similar it is to The Americans in a lot of unflattering ways. Not just in the period piece aspect, but in the way it’s composed and the way it leans on echoes between workplace and domestic subplots for its dramatic juice -…

“I think owning the Denver Broncos is pretty good!” - Beyonce

Maybe now we’ll finally figure out who the peakiest blinder is