User Reviews

If the first episode focused on Steve, this one makes Shirley more familiar to us. Her childhood memories and traumas are portrayed well and shows how it affected her mentally and even in choosing her profession.

The portrayal of Luke as a guy who cares for his sister was too emotional to watch. I started to love him from his point. Anyone remembered Jesse Pinkman ?

And finally, the last shot in which the lights flash twice: which alerts us this show is symbolic at some points as well.

This episode deals with the suicide of youngest sister Nell.

+1 Star for the way Shirley insists on dealing with Nell's body and funeral details personally.

The flashbacks to young Shirley and Young Nell with the poor kittens they found.

+1 Star for the flashback scene where Shirley is putting on makeup on LIve Nell and then cutting between Shirley putting morgue makeup on Dead Nell.

+1 Star for the 2 lights flashing on the forever house at the end.

8/10

Given the limitations of TV these days, even on Netflix, I don't expect to be scared, but so far I get the notion that I will either enjoy this show based on the story or I won't, and the horror aspect will have little impact on me.

Right now it seems like kind of a rip-off of the movie and mini-series It, but I'll probably finish all 10 episodes.

I liked the first episode. It was pretty good. Not amazing, but good. A solid foundation for the rest.

Honestly, this episode started out alright, and I was having a pretty good time.

Then there's the part where the kitten dies, and Shirley does a eulogy. A bit morbid that they showed a dead kitten for such a long time, but ok, it's part of the scene.

Then there's an awful moment where she sees its throat moving, and she gets excited because she thinks it's alive. Now I'm sitting there thinking, damn maybe they're going to be really dark and have the parents still bury it because they don't believe her or something like that.

Then a bug crawls out of the kitten's mouth. It's a traumatizing moment for the character.

But also for me. I don't think I'll ever be able to forget that image. It was just sick. Awful. I didn't need to see it and I wish I hadn't. I will never watch the rest of this show. Frankly, I feel betrayed.

I am not a prude. I have watched Hereditary 8 times. That movie has some horrifying imagery in it. But here's the difference: it was necessary. Really, I think it was essential to the plot. The ways in which events play out (no spoilers) are in keeping with the mythology on which the story is based. So there's a reason for it.

This was too much. I felt physically ill. And knowing that they had a young actress involved makes me sick. If I at 23 feel genuinely traumatized by a fictional portrayal of the scene I have just described, how must she feel, having been in it? I hope for her sake she wasn't blindsided nearly as much as I was.

That scene was wholly unnecessary. I know they were trying to set up her relationship with death, but this was tactless and just awful.

Netflix, you screwed me over on this one. Thanks for that.

This episode is my least favorite to have to make it through. Shirley has absolutely no redeeming qualities or likability. All she does is whine and have over-the-top tantrums/emotional freak outs.

In grief, she chooses to be hateful and selfish. Not to deviate from this episode, but the fact that she has the audacity to judge for the LITTLEST things in everyone, despite her having a one-night stand/affair.

I never have one moment where I like Shirley on my screen. I haven't seen anything else Elizabeth Reaser has been in, so I will sum this up to the character being written so insufferably.

The two scenes in this episode that don't have her character in it, are the only reason this episode gets any stars.