ShellsandCheese

It’s sooo good BUT like with most of their international content, especially the ones featuring Black people, MAX has done nothing to promote it. Nothing. And the algorithm isn’t going to suggest it most accounts. It’s a shame.

This show was awful. Of the three or four women, the only one who didn’t come across as completely messed up and thus messing up other people was Maggie. Lina had her moments and I get her trauma and being sexually frustrated; but that woman was so obsessed and dickmatized that she ignored and neglected her kids. Sloane came off as a caricature and stereotype of a hyper-specialized Black woman; the Jezebel. A woman that was hyper sexual to the point that she clearly was using sex as an escape in an unhealthy manner and lied to and manipulated her own husband and the secret lover she had too. This show was the anti-feminist/manoshere/incel wet dream. It made all women seem crazy and unhinged and hormonal. What the fuck?

After finishing the show, I’m convinced this show was made by a narc to get people to hate women. Women are complicated. We all know that. Why? Because we’re human. But this show: Lina is so distracted waiting to hear from her booty call that she ignores her kid, and then isn’t around when her kid falls into a pile of shit. Sloane wasn’t a slut, but she was a huge dick. Manipulating people for her own sexual pleasure; Gia was a total lunatic when it came to jerking around the man she got pregnant by twice!!! Lina had her moments but the only real relatable character was Maggie. The other ones seemed like caricatures. And were we supposed to dislike Sloane’s mom? Because she was great.

People are just jumping on the bandwagon and are about two years behind the rest of us who have watched from the beginning. Co spidering the long wait for season four, I expect some of the hype to die down - especially when people have some time to digest it all and start to recognize that nothing is really happening in the show. Because boy did season three drag. I found it boring and tedious. As others have stated, this season had so much filler it was ridiculous. It could have been condensed into a two hour movie.

I think Lynch is doing a great job. Bianca is just that unlikeable because in her effort to find The Jackal she doesn’t care how many people die or are harmed. She’s a fanatic. I’ll be pissed if she gets any type of happy ending though.

Bianca is going to get hers for being responsible for Emma’s death and then lying to her poor mother. This is exactly what’s wrong with these intelligence offices; always thinking the ends justify the means and that collateral damage is just not a big deal.

Lenu was writing about her brillliant friend Lina. The series did a wonderful job staying true to the books. It just sucks that there large gaps between season and that after really pushing it the first two seasons MAX basically released the last two seasons with hardly a peep. Bizarre.

I like how the show ended by reminding us that Oz is a despicable human being who has no shot at redemption because he’s rather be who he is. I was hoping that Victor would make it, but was also like, I wouldn’t be surprised if he dies. I just never guessed it would end like that.

I don’t think any of them should get extra time. It’s ridiculous. It’s all about gaming the system. If you legitimately have anxiety soooo bad that you need extra time on an exam, how you going to manage in college? Or in the workplace? You’re not going to be able to compete at a high level anywhere. Like I wouldn’t want a surgeon to make it through school with extra time due to anxiety - and then get so anxious in the operating room that someone dies. So either you need to learn how to manage your anxiety OR need to remove yourself from anxiety inducing high stress environments. Emily, if she got into a top college, would have failed miserably because of her anxiety. And while the mom was trying to save her daughter, does she really think her daughter is going to fare well with her “severe” issues and a mother in prison.

Lina lost me with her frantic bid to dump her kids of on someone so she could get some dick. I get it, she’s feeling all the feels. But she’s too old to be doing that. Yikes. ALSO, holy shit. She needs hardcore therapy. She was ganged raped in high school and seems to think what happened was sort of okay because she didn’t feel anything. She has so much trauma that she needs to deal with it. I rarely feel this bad about a fictional character but damn.

Antonio, the philosopher. How does this show just get better every episode.

This show is falling into the same trap that befalls shows like it. Lack of forward momentum to extend its run. it has now been 2.5 seasons and the residents/captives are no closer to figuring out anything than they were episode one. Not to mention that we are supposed to believe that some of these people have been there for years even decades. There needs to be some forward momentum, some “victory”, no matter how small, for our wayward town residents. It’s starting to get stale and repetitive. The monsters are evolving it seems but the people are not.

I am finding myself loving this show! And I can’t be the only one who actually wants Sofia and Oz to bury the hatchet and actually work together, lol. I really enjoy Victor’s arc as well, and I hope he doesn’t end up being collateral damage. I want him to get out and go to California!

They really should have changed the plot and made Claudia like stuck at 18. Neither of the actresses who played her can pass for fourteen and Delainey Hayles, while indeed very petite, looks like she’s in her late 20’s or early 30’s. They really should have tried to cast someone who looked younger! I haven’t decided yet which Claudia portrayal I like better. They are both talented.

Louis and Claudia are so delusional thinking they are good vampires. LOL.