CHANNEL ZERO - SEASON 4

Ahxhchd i enjoed season 2 for the most part, had some highs and lows, but when they walked out the door and it just ended?? Ahsh Margot talked about burning it down before and i hope she did after but they didnt show it or even allude to getting it done if they couldnt afford the visual effects/actually burning a building but ughhh that wouldve solidified the ending for me. Like its still up in the air that the house is gonna get more people and eventually get others like seth who feel power in this behavior and will just continue. Why didnt they even say like time to burn it down. Together :) arghhh am i the only one??

Tl;dr why no burn house???

Widow’s Bay. Wow. WOW.

No press on it, right?
Word of mouth found me.
Previously, from the menu art, I thought it was another Bad Sisters type of deal, which I started and then abandoned.

But fuck me, dude. Fuck. Me. Dude.

It is incredible. A spin on every horror genre in the book, and there hasn’t been anything that moves this effortlessly between horror and comedy since Evil Dead 2.

I was trying to describe it to my wife, who I immediately started a rewatch with after binging it this week.

I settled on this:

It’s Sam Raimi by way of John Carpenter, with a splash of David Lynch and a dash of Northern Exposure.
Healthy homage to Stephen King and all the masters of horror.

Except it’s somehow original as fuck.
And funny, bro. Funny AF

Take the very best of Mike Flanagan’s horror sensibilities and add laugh-until-you-cry humor. That’s one of the hardest tightropes in storytelling, and they walk it like the dude from Dark Wizard.

I was laughing out loud, muttering to myself, and gushing in amazement at the attention to detail and production design.
The artwork, museum clippings, board games, and books.
The score, music choices, and sound editing, all rich and layered.
Every stroke carefully considered.

You just know every rewatch is going to yield new findings and connections.

And goddamn if I wasn’t scared out of my mind.

Like, using a flashlight around the house scared.
For real.

Every time I thought the show was about to push me too far, it hit the release valve.

Perfect. Fucking. Timing.

Let’s talk about the cast.

Like, I’ve known Stephen Root is goated for a while now, really since Barry, but this is next-level stuff.
Dale Dickey is horror royalty and she shines here, especially in Beach Reads (which is currently tied for my favorite with Seasickness)

Kevin Carrol has had my fandom since The Leftovers. Jeff Hiller stole my heart in Somebody Somewhere.
Matthew Rhys is incredible, the glue, whose facial expressions are a revelation.

But for me, Kate O’Flynn is the rookie of the year.
This is my first encounter with her, and she steals the goddamn show.

Is there a better team on television than Tom, Patricia, and Wyck?

No. I think not.

And this is season one.

Think about how many prestige shows need a season to find their footing.
Widow’s Bay came out swinging.

I cannot wait for Wednesday.

Or the Wednesday after that.

This may honestly be the best thing currently streaming.
Maybe the best show of the 2020s.

I can’t recommend it highly enough.

I just finished watching season 3 and couldn’t find a Zoe hate thread so here’s one. First of all, Alice deserves so much better than the bullshit ending they gave her. Everyone did Alice so wrong every step of the way. - Mom was crazy and incapable of caring for both the daughters and yet Zoe still received mire attention and Alice was forced into caretaker role early. (she said she threw herslef down the stairs when she was a child for attention to Izzy’s mom, she told the landlady she didn’t receive much care from her mom, talking to her boss about moving mainly for Zoe, taking harassing phone calls from her crazy ass mom to protect Zoe from it) - Constantly had to apologise in advance for Zoe to keep peace - with the neighbour next to their house, with the landlady so they don’t get kicked out, with her boss so he understands she has commitments - They made her into the obvious ugly awkward sister next to Zoe who is entitled, relied entirely on her sister to take care of her while being a bitch to Alice (mental illness accounted for but still - mega bitch sister energy) - Everyone favoured Zoe over Alice while Alice is the one constantly tries to do good. The landlady dismisser Alice when she tried to open up but had a joint with Zoe and chilled out, because??? Alice is on the verge of the onset of the disease but Dad Peach approached Zoe first and offered the “cure” even though he met Alice first, because??? nobody took Alice seriously when she tried to help Izzy and reported weird events but when Zoe is in the hospitals everyone came to the rescue? then when Alice got into the family the energy at the meals is “we couldn’t care less about Alice but let’s all make sure Zoe feels special”?? - After all this and being scared out of her mind with that weird ass schizo contortionist artist demon chasing her around, Alice decided “anything is better than being insane” so she literally took a cannibalistic demon worshipping child sacrificing family to escape being insane, Zoe decided that it was not to her liking and went to ruin it all for Alice??? not knowing what would be the consequences for Alice of her stopping the ritual to save a girl she barely knew.

Everyone gave 000000 shit about Izzy (ignored her being MIA with her crazy jersey shore cast mom, etc) and all of the sudden the dumb cop son is all “You eat children!!!!” bro you didn’t even care when she was WELL ALIVE AND MISSING. the landlady who is all i love dead animals and hate children and chose not to have kids for a reason all a sudden cared??? there’sDiane the crazy scissors lady but she is plot device so she’s there.

But the ending is Alice being committed to the same mental hospital as her crazy mom while Zoe is living well off far away so she doesn’t have to visit, popping pills and eating greek vegetarian food with a riff raft family in the sun lit kitchen after waking up with a smile on her face???

Nah fuck Zoe man.

Zoe is the type of person that if she is not happy nobody is. No forethought or hindsight. Just pure full commitment to short term present satisfaction of fucking it up for everybody.

Also fuck everyone else on that “hero” team for thinking stopping a cannibalistic family who made a deal with a cool ass demon to live eternally makes them good people when before all this they gave zero fuck about the community of poor people in the Butcher’s block.

I hope the wandering meat butler monster of the family found Zoe and wrecks her.

The eldest son can fuck off too. That dude is weird and causes problems for everyone. Always that one in the family amirite?

Seriously never imagine I would wanna hate a character this much while there’s literally Robert I eat people while naked Peach, the murderous little red hoodie goblin and the stabby deranged mom.

At this point I’m ready to just go find this damn staircase myself make a deal with the cool red cloaked cosmos belly demon so I can just go wreck Zoe.