I loved the ongoing brief scenes involving that stached man too. I read a quick headline about which infamous serial killer he's supposed to be but I don't know his story. I'm gonna try to avoid reading anything about what the guy did
Yeah, very infamous serial killer. Took me a while to pick up on who/what they were doing with that character. I wish you knew anything about him just so I could theorize how they're going to use him next season with you. I guess I can put it in spoilers for anyone else that ends up watching and does know the case.
Theory for next season
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Really wasn't sure at first how BTK was at all going to be used in the next season, since his whole thing was he would kill for a while and then go completely off the radar for YEARS. Which I assume he was beginning to do at the end when burning the drawings.
Unless they do a time skip to 2005 when he goofed up (definitely a write-in for silliest goose) and got caught the only thing I can see them using him for next season is as a season long pursuit storyline with no actual presence. Where all of the tactics and intuition they put together this season gets flipped upside down. They will be confronted with a serial killer who doesn't fit into any of their profiles.
The scene with them interrogating the tree cutter was hands down my favorite scene in the whole show. Everything came together, all the little tactics and nuances Holden had been testing and working out through the whole season. I also loved how he used phrases that Kemper and others he'd talked to used to break through the guy's facade to get him to start talking.
Kemp/Holden in the hospital was a very close second. Kemper talking about how he killed the girls so they could be his spirit wives added a whole different weird dimension to his insanity. I also loved how calm and eloquent he was. An interesting Starling/Graham and Hannibal dynamic. I actually fully expected Kemper to kill him there, even though I knew a Season 2 was coming. I took the bait and was bracing myself.
And bringing up third place for favorite scenes is Speck throwing his bird into the fan after saying 'JUST WASN'T THEIR NIGHT'.
Absolutely. I need to go back and revisit the songs at the end of all episodes but the last one. I did a lot of "play next episode now" and "skip intro" as I greedily tore through every episode as if it was going to be taken off Netflix today.
Worth a watch. Fincher directed the first two and last two episodes but you can see how much his style impacted everything in between. You can see what I meant by my post about character blocking within the frame in this show, especially when there's three people (like the trio in the elevator when they get assigned the basement office). Similar shots are all throughout this video
I dunno, she really didn't bother me? Like I understood completely why she was frustrated and doing the things she was doing. At the same time it doesn't surprise me that people dislike her and Skyler her.
lol same, I thought she was fine. Her monotone voice didn’t even bother me. I thought she had her own personality but people are bitching that she was more of a prop
There’s also a fair amount of hate about the show’s acting outside of Holden which I really don’t get at all
I thought that was kind of the point, she was basically treated as a prop by Holden after a certain point, which snowballed. And anyone complaining about any of the rest of the cast's acting is crazy. They were all great. Especially Kemper and Tench. Holden was definitely the anchor but I don't remember anyone standing out as being bad.
Unrelated to the topics at hand, but I saw someone post this picture somewhere else saying "It's Tench" and lol'd at how accurate it was:
This show is pretty different. It's kiiiiiiinda case of the week but they spill into each other and some seem to be forming overarching plots, reminds me of the way Hannibal did it
One thing that keeps standing out to me is how well the characters are blocked in some frames, seems a lot more intentional than most shows. The whole look of the show is very Fincher and makes me wanna rewatch Zodiac
I saw Zodiac on TV a few weeks ago and was reminded of how good that movie was/is. Perfect vibes in that movie.
Now yesterday, I started this show, and had to keep going until episode 3. show is pretty close to those ZODIAC vibes, instantly likable. will have to take a break though and watch it from the start with gf. it's a deal we made, when we find something interesting we have to watch it together. So I saw some adam sandler/drew barrymore movie with her, now she has to watch this show with me.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
