The difference is that we get to see Peter’s backstory play out in scene. I don’t even remember Rebecca’s monologue (or Jamie’s, for that matter) because exposition at its best can’t do half of what Peter’s actual scenes accomplish in establishing character.

I’m personally more irritated by Peter’s brogue, but it is just a little too posh

They’re there, but not as prominent.

My question is why, if Henry and Dominic grew up in that house, either of them wanted anything to do with it after coming of age. Passive specters like the soldier and the woman in the attic, sure okay, but I can’t imagine Peter is the first person to have been violently murdered by a faceless ghost on the grounds.

Also I’m not even a gardening nerd and I know that Moon flowers are (A) powerful hallucinogens and (B) extremely toxic, so I was hoping we’d get some Chekhov’s bloom action. Did we? I suppose we’ll have to wait and see. 

“Characters like Henry, Charlotte, and Dominic get fleshed out more, but are they really the characters we need to know more about?”

Yeah, she can just live in the house professionally! I don’t really buy it as necessary to explain the nature of her attachments to the other characters, either - she doesn’t scan to me as an “abandoned woman”, or someone acting in a way to compensate for a failed marriage, she just seems like a naturally caring and…

Going into this one I was resistant because its conceit seemed to be very similar to another horror anthology outing, “The Queen” from Castle Rock, season one (a good episode of a far lesser show). Indeed it feels very deliberate that we’re introduced to it in the context of Owen’s mother’s dementia, leading us to…

For now, this link is probably the easiest way to track: https://t.co/ENlSenitP8?amp=1

That “we have to get through this” bit was from when they were kids. It’s funny, up to a point there’s a version of this story where it could have turned out that Eddie and Dani were pulling mutual beard duty.

The Others, I think, is more gothic, certainly in terms of atmosphere and preoccupation. The gothic is less about being dogged by a monster / shade, than it is about the state of being haunted - of the past (or what could have been the present but isn’t, or an imagined future) intruding on the present and upsetting…

Jamie has seen Dani’s sudden and violent panic attacks happen, seemingly at random, while doing random tasks that lack a sapphic charge. That she sees the exact same behavior and doesn’t either believe Dani thinks she is seeing something, or take it as a response that doesn’t reflect on her, the chimney sweep lesbian,…

There’s going to be so much stuff in the remaining five hours that retrospective judgment of this review won’t amount to much. I’d rather give her the benefit of the doubt than fault her for the show’s short attention span.

Phrasing

(spoilers, I guess?)

Still there, fwiw, and two episodes behind. This happened with the Twilight Zone recaps, too. I have to assume the webmaster has a billion things to do.

I’ve gotta say that AVC’s new UI does not do this review series any favors - meaning, there are no front page updates when a new one drops, it doesn’t rise to the top of the feed, and there’s no visible grade which is basically the AVC Pavlovian cue for “a new review has arrived for your consumption”.

Also: the first time this season really lost me, as opposed to annoying me with a choice, is Jamie’s quick-chilling feet. You give us a free-spirited chimney sweep soft butch lesbian, you give her multiple (multiple!) instances of seeing the femme get startled by something, she tells you that she is being haunted by a…

I don’t disagree with anything in this review but sometimes, when a text fails, it fails in a way that doesn’t reflect on the propriety of its methods or motives. Sometimes everything is above-board and still doesn’t work. If that weren’t the case then bad media would necessarily be a kind of violence. Is that…

A two hour film definitely demands a different pace - a ghost story and a gothic horror story aren’t necessarily the same thing. The Others is about as perfect a synthesis as you can get between classic and modern.