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One of my absolute favourites is Su-An Kim's performance as Su-An in Train to Busan. That little girl absolutely killed me. And I cannot skip past Jamie Bell in Billy Elliot.

So Toni Collette is amazing throughout Hereditary, but I've found that my absolute favourite moment is from her dream conversation with Peter, when she suddenly says "I never wanted to be your mother". She says it so nonchalantly, almost tauntingly, and then the moment she finishes the sentence her whole face changes with the horror of what she just said out loud and she claps her hand over her mouth. I love that moment so bloody much.

There are so many little details in Society of the Snow that will stand out to those of us who are familiar with the source material, but my absolute favourite thing is that when the boy who has been collecting belongings and tokens from everyone who died is packing them up in a suitcase towards the end, one of the things in the bag is a silver cross with a broken arm. It's a nod to a real cross that he speaks about in the book, that he found in the snow up there and has kept since then. He says it's his most valued keepsake from the mountain because he feels it represents them and what they went through - broken, abused, but still recognisably what they were before. I practically burst into tears when I noticed it on the screen.

It's weird - the Andes plane crash has been a special interest of mine ever since I first saw Alive back when it was new, and I've been saying for ages that there needed to be a proper, more authentic retelling, yet I had no idea this movie was in the works. I'm really, really glad it exists now, though, because it's everything Alive should have been. Cinematically I thought it was stunning, and the acting was strong (and also a huge improvement on Alive). And having Numa Turcatti be the narrator is a really interesting choice, for obvious reasons. My heart broke for him when reading the book.

I don't know about that, I don't get the impression that Tammy loved herself all that much, either. Especially given what Verna said to her in the end - "No one can take being shot down, scorned, and attacked 24/7 like you do to yourself."

I think I assumed she wanted them (Roderick and Madeleine) to see her, that she wanted them to know she was there.

That's a great point right there. I guess you could say Verna forces him to take action, to see what that action will be. It's interesting how she basically taunts him throughout the episode, though, seemingly enjoying it. She never points out that he had a chance to do things differently, change his outcome, the way she did with Perry and Camille. I wonder if that means she believes (or knows?) that in his core, he's worse than they were.

I thought that, too. With Perry and Camille, Verna just kind of let things happen that they set in motion themselves, but she really screwed with Leo, seeming much more mean-spirited. He didn't kill Pluto, but she -- made him think so? So I suppose it was a test, to see how he'd handle it, and the fact that he chose to try to trick his boyfriend meant he failed that test and would be punished. If he'd chosen one of the other cats that needed a home, he would've been given a kinder death. But setting a guy up to think he's killed his boyfriend's cat, in a horribly way, and then driving him insane because he decides to keep that from said boyfriend... That's pretty heavy entrapment and a harsh punishment.

Up until now I've felt *some* sympathy for every kid as they got theirs, but man, Freddie? That was plain poetic justice, honestly. What a sadistic psychopath he turned out to be. Lenore is awesome. She's got heart and she's got courage.

"I'm -- I'm just here to support you." Seriously, I love her.

Oh, this was definitely my favourite episode so far, which surprised me. I didn't think I'd be much invested in a Tamerlane episode, since she hasn't really been given a lot of character development outside of being plain awful even with five previous episodes, but I ended up actually feeling -- quite bad for her? I guess it helps that Samantha Sloyan is a terrific actress. I loved the scene with her and Juno - you could see her face softening while Juno talked about wanting to be part of a family. Speaking of which, poor, sweet Juno! Is she okay? I really want her to come out of everything here in one piece. And she's not connected to the Ushers by blood, so she *shouldn't* be affected by whatever deal they made with Verna back then, right? C'mon, just give Juno a break.

I do think this series is darkly funnier than his previous Netflix ones. I cracked up at how the mention of Frederick being called "sweaty Freddy" in the first or second episode because of his being afraid of elevators and always taking the stairs paid off in the previous ep, with him outside Leo's door all out of breath. Gave me a good giggle.

I was rewatching Ready Or Not, and I keep thinking that maybe they didn't need to have that intro scene right at the start. Because that way we basically know what's going to happen when it's time for Grace to draw her card, and it might've been more effective if we didn't know for sure. We could guess, but we wouldn't have *seen* it. The intro scene is definitely still needed, I think, but I feel like maybe they could've moved it and put it as a flashback - maybe have Daniel look at that closet when he hid Alex and flash back to 30 years ago after the "Run, run run!" song ends, before they head out to find Grace.

Right, but - does that make it better? That she was happy to cause problems in two, as far as she knew, happy relationships in order to hurt the team and by extension Rupert? I just don't see it being business and not personal as a "big difference". My issue with Nate's redemption arc has never been that he deserved it less than Rebecca, just that they handled it very poorly.

No, I agree, hence my "almost", heh. But since it clearly *was* traumatising, it's another thing that a victim shouldn't be expected to forgive. Which is my problem - as I think someone else said before in this thread, there is *so* much ground between forgiveness and letting go of pain/resentment/anger. And the show *chose* the former, combined with reaching out, which is the standard in media - and if you're someone living with that, and that's what you keep seeing, how are you supposed to not feel like that's what you're expected to do, what you should be doing? The walking away at peace is something a lot of people could do with seeing more of, and exactly what I really wish they had given us instead.