S01.E02: My Little Lighthouse

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With no cell service and the power out, the Chenoweths and their neighbours desperately seek help.

Maggie realises something very strange is going on with Arlo.

Air Date: Oct 10, 2024

 

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Sneak peek!

 

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Another sneak peek!

 

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Once you cross the blue perimeter, you’ll get melted! 

The gas mask guy warns them not to cross the blue line and to trust no one. This sounds like he has experienced this before or has some advanced knowledge about this bizarre situation. 

 

OVERALL:

Am looking forward to this series because of Chaske Spencer. After watching the first 2 episodes, I find this series is not that gripping. It’s a story full of recycled tropes and corny lines, jumbled together. 

Chaske Spencer, Boris McGiver and Kathy Baker are wasted in this plodding series.

 

[Anela]

So, that’s what helped to the dog? It crossed the line, and melted? That was gross. 

[oldCJ]

I read the book Stinger and came into this knowing, like all adaptations, it would not be exactly the same. The book had too many ideas and none got well-developed. But the book characters were totally two-dimension yet far more interesting than what the show is giving us. Maybe the writing will pick up, but given the lazy trope-filled, stilted dialogue of the first two episodes, I'm not too hopeful. 

As for the horror, heavy inspiration from The Thing. I see some people making comparisons to Stephen King's Under the Dome, but this book came out long before King's. 

My nitpicks about the first two episodes:

1. What kind of vet saves a wasp in their kid's room? And then just let's it go assuming it won't sting her?

2. Everyone was ridiculously laid back and lacking any sense of urgency for a kid wandering off into the woods on a night when animals are going crazy. 

3. The horses are acting up to the point where one impaled its own neck on a fence, and the husband of a vet is like "Welp, let's saddle 'em up and ride!"

4. Why is a woman who constantly smokes pot drinking whiskey to chill out? 

5. Who keeps all their flashlights in a cabinet under the tv? If the power goes out seems like a stupid place to store them all. Why not have one in the kitchen? And how did the neighbor woman know where they were? 

6. How did no one, including the teen who was riding the horse, notice the fence post sticking out of the horse's neck before loading it into the horse trailer?

7. Why did the neighbor woman appear to have rib bones in her head? But more importantly, she spent all day looking for her beloved dog Duke. Then her husband goes off to the woods to shoot a rabid animal. But when Duke runs off into those very woods later, she's like "meh. I'm going home." Plus she fails to notice her husband is back from the woods and his leg is torn up? Did she have an appointment she was late for? 

8. A boy comes back dazed and bloody with an adult's handprints on his wrists, and his medically trained mother doesn't even bother to lift his shirt to check for other injuries or ask if he was touched or hurt anywhere else?

9. Why are all tv dads so stupid and randomly yelling at strangers?

10. How long did dinner take to make that it was bright day and then well-past sunset before it was ready? That family needs an instapot or something. 

I will say Canabananalism is a joke I never heard before so that's something I guess. 

 

[Anela]

I didn’t know this was based on a book.  
i thought they were stilted, too.  It was obvious that the husband had cheated, so I thought that was part of it.  
the husband telling his affair partner, something he promised to keep secret for his wife.  🤦🏻‍♀️ wtf.  

[ShadowHunter]

When the dog and Claire stepped over the blue line I got John Carpenters The Thing vibes with the way they mutated. That was cool but that was it. 

I'm not sure if I like any of these characters. I did laugh at the corny jokes the neighbor boy told so we have that. I really dislike the Dad played by Scott Speedman. He is a cheating wimp.