I'm dying.

I agree with your takes on the first movie and said a lot of the same things about it re: scrubbing out the race component, though in the end I think I came down on it as being "pretty good but flawed." But Chapter 2 was one of the worst films I've ever seen. Literally exhausting to sit through.

Legit request: if you don't sell out Sunday, set one aside for me and tag me? Would love to buy one tbh.

I have a weird love for it even though (or maybe because) it taught me a harsh lesson about save slots as a teenager and made me have to restart the game, lol. I can be kind of masochistic about these things though, I watch the wheel of pain scene in Conan like ":D I want to try!"

Watch him in "Winter Light" sometime if you get a chance; he can easily command like 400 years of heartbreak to appear on his face somehow.

The thing he did that impressed me most was completely changing the theme of Haunting of Hill House, making it pro-family instead of entirely about a queer terror of heteronormative domestic duty, and still having me think the show turned out "pretty good." Like, I should totally hate that.

Yeah, I'd agree with that. I have to imagine his following comes more from just being like a "he reliably won't totally fuck this up or anything"-tier creator than from being someone making great work? Because yeah, otherwise, I don't know either.

I don't dislike him but the endless monologues get WILD at a certain point, like damn near self-parody. That was especially the case in Midnight Mass, I thought.