S01.E05: Plainfield, Illinois

[AnimeMania]

A suburban lawyer debates life and death.

[calliope1975]

This was a decent adaptation of the short story. I thought they actually tamed down some of the more gruesome story aspects. 

[Starchild]

I thought it had a nice open ending. I got the feeling that, for the sake of her daughter, she would not be going back down to the basement.

[tennisgurl]

This was my favorite episode so far, I think it did a good job of balancing the supernatural horror with the real life horrors of mental illness, it was creepy but also very sad. I think the ending implies that Sean will leave the basement alone and let her wife go to be with her daughter, as having a zombie mom probably isn't great for her. 

Interesting that the original story was a heterosexual couple, its cool that they made it a w/w couple for the show instead. 

[natyxg]

I really liked this episode. Super powerful, sad and well done.

On 10/19/2020 at 4:23 PM, tennisgurl said:

Interesting that the original story was a heterosexual couple, its cool that they made it a w/w couple for the show instead. 

I assumed that was the case right away, with the wife being called Shawn. I felt vindicated when I saw the credits lol.

[Duke2801]

This was definitely the strongest episode of the series, imo, followed perhaps by the New Orleans episode. It was creepy and eerie, yet quite poignant as well.