Two Sentence Horror Stories - General Discussion

[luckyroll3]

Even though I didn't think this episode was as well written as the others, I still really enjoyed it.  I also teared up at the end when the mom put her love in the stuffy and that was what protected them. 

Edited September 15, 2019 by luckyroll3

[jewel21]

I finally got around to watching the episode and I enjoyed it. I liked the three kids and their interactions with one another. The boy telling the girl he wanted her to teach him kung-fu and her saying she was Vietnamese and he responded with I don't understand anything coming out of your mouth cracked me up. 

This is such a delightfully fun and creepy series. 

[AnimeMania]

Not nearly as enamored with the series as other on the board seem to be. I did like the white neighbor lady that calls the cops with a running commentary every time she sees a black person.

[tennisgurl]

Not quite as well written as the last few episodes, but I still enjoyed it a lot. The three kids were really good, and I liked their interactions a lot. It had a very fairy tale kind of feeling, which makes sense considering its an episode about a monster that eats children with three kid protagonists. I was also glad that we got a happy ending...even if the demon is still around. 

The monster was even destroyed by the power of love! I might have gotten some feels when the mom put all her love for Mai into her toy. I might have something in my eye.

[jewel21]

It appears the finale is airing tonight, although my PVR is apparently recording the episode only this Saturday for some reason. 

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S.01:E.09: Trilogy

In the final episode pulling three stories into one: ""Ma" is a supernatural horror about a young woman's new romance and her Chinese mother and the lengths she will go to keep her "perfect" daughter home; "Guilt Trip" is a hitchhiker horror tome following a good Samaritan who is forced to rethink her decision on the dark and isolated road with the stranger in her car; and "Singularity" is a technology, body-horror story centered on a biohacker tapping into more than just the internet.

[Annber03]

Oooh, I love creepy hitchhiker stories.

"Ma" sounds particularly interesting, too. 

[Annber03]

Okay, "Singularity" was freaking weird. And creepy. The idea of that kind of technology existing in real life freaks me out, but I really like what they did with the whole concept here. 

"Ma" was deeply unsettling, too. And "Guilt Trip"-I figured fairly early on things weren't going to be as they seemed with the woman and the man, but I liked the tension with them and the way it all ended was very tragic. 

I really hope this show gets another season. 

[tennisgurl]

Three episodes for the price of one! Score! 

I liked all three episodes, they were all very different from each other as well. Singularity was probably my favorite, if also the weirdest one, those shadows were so creepy and I like the take on transhumanism letting people become basically connected to a ghost realm. 

Ma was very unsettling, and I was left guessing as to where it was going until the end. At first I thought the mom had powers and was using them to keep her daughter dependent on her, but all mom needed was her bitter cruel words. I mean, I guess mom never saw any superhero stories, because messing with an angry person with semi controlled powers is always a bad call! Her poor neighbor/crush. 

I always like creepy hitchhiker stories, and having the creepy one be the driver was a nice twist on the format, even if I did guess pretty quickly that she was the sketchy one and not the guy. I didnt quite see the whole thing coming though, like the reason she wanted the wallet. The running themes at everyone being immediately suspicious of a black man not doing anything  while no one thinks to suspect a very suspicious acting white woman was sadly realistic. Lady you are cold!

I am really glad I decided to give this show a look, I was really impressed by the quality of the stories, and the diversity of people and cultures represented, which is often sadly lacking in horror. Hope that we get another season! There are TONS of these things lurking around the internet! 

[Annber03]

5 hours ago, tennisgurl said:

Singularity was probably my favorite, if also the weirdest one, those shadows were so creepy

That moment with the dad getting all confrontational with the woman as he's about to shoot, and then the ghost suddenly popping up as they did, actually made me gasp. 

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Ma was very unsettling, and I was left guessing as to where it was going until the end.

Man, the whole time Erica was wandering around the place trying to look for Mona, all I could think was, "Get. Out. Of that. Apartment." I figured we were going to see something disturbing, but I sure wasn't expecting that. 

[LittleIggy]

Ma was a Chinese Carrie. 

[jewel21]

So my first recording of the episode didn't record properly after the first few minutes, and my second recording cut off the ending of the final episode. 

Can anyone tell me how Singularity ended? 

Overall, I love this little show and I too hope they come back for a second season. It's really well done. 

[tennisgurl]

12 hours ago, jewel21 said:

Can anyone tell me how Singularity ended? 

The woman who put the chip in her arm managed to figure out what happened to the ghost boy, and she thought it was over...but then she started getting other imagines of other murders, and other shadow ghosts showed up. She ran away in terror and it ended up her on the street trying to cut the chip out of her arm, while a big line of ghosts surround her, and some people are in the background messing with their internet without seeing what is going on. 

Hope that helps!

[jewel21]

2 hours ago, tennisgurl said:

The woman who put the chip in her arm managed to figure out what happened to the ghost boy, and she thought it was over...but then she started getting other imagines of other murders, and other shadow ghosts showed up. She ran away in terror and it ended up her on the street trying to cut the chip out of her arm, while a big line of ghosts surround her, and some people are in the background messing with their internet without seeing what is going on. 

Hope that helps!

Yes, thank you so much!

[libgirl2]

On 9/19/2019 at 4:04 PM, jewel21 said:

It appears the finale is airing tonight, although my PVR is apparently recording the episode only this Saturday for some reason. 

WE were watching this series this weekend but didn't see the finale. For the most part we enjoyed the series. Some real WTF moments. My favorite so far is Tutorial. 

Edited September 23, 2019 by libgirl2

[docmatt]

Netflix just added the series for anybody (like me) who missed episodes

[jewel21]

The CW just put out its new schedule and this show has been renewed for a season 2!!! I really enjoyed it and I'm happy it'll be coming back. CW Schedule

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The CW’s Q4 schedule features the final seven episodes of Supernatural, a second season of CW Seed-generated  Two Sentence Horror Stories, scripted acquisitions The Outpost and Pandora, which the CW has been airing as original summer series, as well as the newly acquired Tell Me a Story, Swamp Thing, Coroner and Dead Pixels, whose seasons are in the can.

 

[Annber03]

Oh, fantastic! Very happy to hear that :). 

[wingster55]

On 10/1/2019 at 4:06 PM, docmatt said:

Netflix just added the series for anybody (like me) who missed episodes

Only 8 though. I just discovered the show, and after skimming through this thread, there’s apparently a 9th episode?

[luckyroll3]

On 5/14/2020 at 4:58 PM, jewel21 said:

The CW just put out its new schedule and this show has been renewed for a season 2!!! I really enjoyed it and I'm happy it'll be coming back. CW Schedule

 

Yeah!  I love this show!

[AnimeMania]

11 hours ago, wingster55 said:

Only 8 though. I just discovered the show, and after skimming through this thread, there’s apparently a 9th episode?

There are more than 9 episodes, this was first a web series on CW Seed with a few ~7 minute episodes, that all mention of seems to have been completely erased from the internet. Then came the the first season of the series. The 9th episode was just 3 of the webseries episodes stuck together.

[Annber03]

So apparently not only will there be a second season of this show, there's also going to be a third. Yay :)!

https://www.spoilertv.com/2020/09/two-sentence-horror-stories-renewed-for.html#disqus_thread

 

[AnimeMania]

Two Sentence Horror Stories     JAN. 12      8 pm      CW      One-Hour Season Premiere

[Annber03]

Ooh, great! Look forward to that, then :). 

[jewel21]

Ooh, nice! I am beyond excited for this. I really enjoyed the first season. 

[AnimeMania]

Two Sentence Horror Stories     JAN. 12      8 pm      CW      One-Hour Season Premiere

Two Sentence Horror Stories Season 2 Trailer

Episode 2.01 - Bag Man

I KNEW I'D NEVER FIT IN, NO MATTER HOW HARD I WAS PUSHED - Five high school seniors in their first detention find themselves falling prey to a terrifying monster. Bzhaun Rhoden, Doralynn Mui, Keeya King, Rob Labelle, Hunter Dillon, MJ Kokolis and Roy Campsall star. Kimani Ray Smith directed the episode written by Vera Miao and Leon Hendrix III.

Episode 2.02 - Elliot

I MET A FRIEND WHO CAN TURN PAIN INTO POWER - A transmasculine student endures merciless bullying in his high school until a mysterious janitor offers the teen a way to take care of his bullies once and for all. James Goldman, Janet Kidder, David Lewis, Elise Shak, Eliza Faria, Edwin Perez, Ella Dixon, Micah Solis, Robyn Daye Edwards, Ethan Hippel and Jhomar Suyom star. Chase Joynt directed the episode written by Stephanie Adams-Santos.

[Annber03]

Thanks for posting these! Nice to start getting some episode info :). 

[AnimeMania]

Two Sentence Horror Stories     JAN. 19      8 pm      CW      One-Hour 

Episode 2.03 - "Instinct" - (8:00-8:30 p.m. ET)
SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO GRIN AND BEAR IT - A female gig worker arrives at a stranger's home for an odd job but starts to suspect that her seemingly genial host might be a serial killer - and she's his next target. Sunita Prasad, Tyler Johnston, Leanne Lapp, Andrew Job, Stephanie Cho and Josh Epstein star. Spear Sisters (Kailey and Sam) directed the episode written by Sehaj Sethi.

Episode 2.04 - "Imposter" - (8:30-9:00 p.m. ET)
I WORK SO HARD - Charles, the lone Asian American financial advisor at a high-profile investment firm, is on the cusp of receiving an award from senior management when he realizes he is being stalked by a terrifying stranger who looks just like him. Lou Ticzon, Emily Tennant, David Lennon, Jasmine Vega, Carolyn Fe, Andrew Airlie, Gordon Comier and Sarah Cantuba star. Jen Liao directed the episode written by Pornsak Pichetshote.

[jewel21]

This show is finally coming back this Tuesday, and I for one, cannot wait!

[AnimeMania]

Two Sentence Horror Stories     JAN. 26      8 pm      CW      One-Hour 

Episode 2.05 - "Quota" - (8:00-8:30 p.m. ET)

WE WORK OURSELVES TO THE BONE - The manager of a fulfillment center for an e-commerce company tries to keep productivity during a busy holiday season up amidst a deadly virus outbreak. Sabryn Rock, Marci T. House, Dunan Ollerenshaw, Don Mike, Matty Finochio and Oliver Hua star. Lynne Stopkewich directed the episode written by Melody Cooper.

Episode 2.06 - "Fix" - (8:30-9:00 p.m. ET)

MY SISTER NEEDS TO TALK - A psychology student checks in on his estranged sister on the anniversary of their parents' death and starts to suspect she is possessed by a demon. Kevin Alves, Nicole Munoz, Albert Nicholas, Robert Shoofey, Gabriela Zimmerman and Grace Chin star. Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia directed the episode written by Kristine Huntley.

Edited January 12, 2021 by AnimeMania

[Annber03]

Well, so much for that happy ending. Ooh. I did like that Elliot found a way to free those other kids, though. Also, I totally sympathize with his desire to find a place to escape to, but one look at that dark stairwell and that flickering light and I would've been like, "Nope." 

The monster in "Bag Man" was creepy, too. Kinda looked like something out of an "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" episode, in a way. 

Good to have the show back! 

[jewel21]

So happy to have this show back. I enjoyed the first episode more than the second but both were good. The "bag man" was super creepy. The way he would just perch on the desk. Gah. 

Although the message The CW seemed to be going with tonight was that school is evil and it's best just to stay home, heh. 

[Annber03]

5 minutes ago, jewel21 said:

The "bag man" was super creepy. The way he would just perch on the desk. Gah. 

And the whole thing of being trapped in a room with nowhere to escape to, save for a closet. Talk about a nightmare scenario. 

[LittleIggy]

Good to have the show back! Yeah, Bag Man was hella creepy. I hope he got the idiot principal, too,

I didn’t get the ending of “Elliot.” The janitor kept following him all his life? And, no, I wouldn’t go down into that basement either. 😬

46 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

And the whole thing of being trapped in a room with nowhere to escape to, save for a closet. Talk about a nightmare scenario. 

They should have stayed in the closet! 

[Annber03]

28 minutes ago, LittleIggy said:

They should have stayed in the closet! 

When they were pulling the broom out from the door handles I was sitting here like, "No, no, nooooo...!" 

[luckyroll3]

I liked both stories, but didn't feel like the second did a great job of capturing the intent of the two sentences it was based on, which I think would have been a more sinister take. 

[tennisgurl]

Great having this show back, I am always so impressed by how much they can do with such little stories and how spooky and varied the episodes are. The first one was my favorite, it was like "What if the Breakfast Club was a horror movie?" having students that line up almost perfectly with their Breakfast Club counterparts, even having the rebellious kid being named Bender. The Bagman was so creepy, especially how he would leap on desks and slowly unfurl himself before killing the students, but what was even worse was the students being unable to escape after the door was locked and then even the windows were covered while their principle could just watch as the students were all killed due to his own incompetence. It also worked nicely as a metaphor for how schools and the adults who run them can become so paranoid about protecting students from in school violence that they can actually do the very students they want to protect more harm than good if they become too paranoid.   

The second one was good too, even if it didn't have quite the same punch as the first and didn't really translate its two sentences as well as the show normally does. It was nice to have a happy ending for Elliot, even saving the other kids. I guess the demonic witch janitor keeps following him though, leaving things on a creepy note. Kids, if you wander into a creepy basement with terrible lighting and broken lockers and chairs everywhere, and a stranger asks you to make a deal with them, you run away. Stranger danger! 

[Annber03]

Wow. That second episode was trippy. Interesting take on that particular horror story. 

First one had some good tension throughout. Seeing the dead wife throughout was creepy. 

[jewel21]

I enjoyed the first one more than the second episode. I liked the tension build up in the first episode. I kept thinking the girl would be the crazy one and not the guy. I was waiting for a crazy twist, heh. Still good, though. The second one I didn't enjoy as much. I like having two episodes back to back, though. And I'm always surprised at how much they can fit into a 30 minute show. 

[tennisgurl]

In the first episode, I wondered if it would turn out that the writer was the crazy one and she would kill the guy after hallucinating him trying to kill her, but it turned out to be relatively straight forward. Really good though, the tension was really high the whole time and it left me guessing about what was going to happen until the last minute. I suppose that the guy would have to be the killer though, as the episode seemed like it was themed around how people will often stay in these increasingly sketchy situations, even when they're instincts are telling them that something is off, out of a societal need not to be "rude" to people or be seen as paranoid. 

The second episode was seriously trippy, there was a whole lot going on. The most obvious theme was Imposter Syndrome and Charlie struggling with his heritage while in this mostly white place, feeling like he has to shrug off his co-workers racism to fit in and keep moving up the ladder, while feeling like he doesn't really belong. So then he is literally being stalked by the Asian part of himself that he tries to deny at work, and tries to kill it in the end and...it goes poorly. Plus there was the stuff with his mom with dementia and his family, the magic family necklace, there was a lot to pick apart. Really confusing, but I liked it. 

They always do so much with only two sentences.  

[LittleIggy]

In the first episode, when the cops were leaving and the girl just stood there, I was yelling at the TV “Leave with the cops! Now! Go!”   They never listen to me! 😆 I’m glad she survived.

The second episode was confusing but interesting. Nice to see Filipinos depicted on a tv series.

[AnimeMania]

In the first episode, I was wondering who called the cops.

[AnimeMania]

Two Sentence Horror Stories     FEB. 2      8 pm      CW       

Episode 2.07 - "Essence" - (8:00-8:30 p.m. ET)

I ALWAYS ADMIRED HER BOOKS - A young woman struggling to make ends meet starts work at a high-end nail salon, but the horrifying physical toll the job takes leads her to suspect something much more sinister may be at play. Chiara Guzzo, Christin Park and Laura Mennell star. Bola Ogun directed the episode written by Megan Rosati.

 

Two Sentence Horror Stories     FEB. 9      8 pm      CW       

Episode 2.08 - "El Muerto" - (8:00-8:30 p.m. ET)

ALONE IN THE MORGUE, I HEAR LITTLE FOOTSTEPS - A young girl has to hang out at the morgue as her mother works, only to find herself the target of a terrifying ghost. Isla Sunar, Michelle Arvizu and Carlos Albornoz star. Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia directed the episode written by Lucy Luna and Carlos Foglia.

[Annber03]

19 minutes ago, AnimeMania said:

Two Sentence Horror Stories     FEB. 9      8 pm      CW       

Episode 2.08 - "El Muerto" - (8:00-8:30 p.m. ET)

ALONE IN THE MORGUE, I HEAR LITTLE FOOTSTEPS - A young girl has to hang out at the morgue as her mother works, only to find herself the target of a terrifying ghost. Isla Sunar, Michelle Arvizu and Carlos Albornoz star. Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia directed the episode written by Lucy Luna and Carlos Foglia.

Ooh. One of my big nightmare scenarios. I'm both looking forward to and a bit nervous about seeing this one :p. 

[Annber03]

Well, "Quota" was awfully timely. Dang. The last minutes of that episode were intense as hell and heartbreaking. I got a little choked up when they were calling (or trying to call) their families. And then the final scene. I actually said, "Oh, no...". 

"Fix" had a sad ending, too. At one point I thought we'd learn one of them were responsible for their parents' deaths (and on that note, wow, what a disturbing nightmare at the beginning there). 

[tennisgurl]

Two very different episodes, one with zombies and overworked exploited employees, and another with demons and drug fueled grief. Both of them were good, but I think the second one was my favorite, it was really creepy and the actors playing the siblings were both great. I also think they used the two sentences better. On the one hand, I love getting to watch two episodes a week, but on the other hand, I don't want this show to end too quickly, I enjoy it so much I want to spread it out. 

The first episode was, I think, the first time this show has done a zombie episode, so that was cool to see. The actresses playing the two main characters were great, and them realizing that they had to sacrifice themselves was heartbreaking, made even worse in that no lesson was learned by their exploitative company and now the zombie virus is going to be spread anyway. 

The second episode was quite a bit more trippy, especially the revelation at the end that the sister had been dead the entire time...or was she? Was the demon possessing her corpse? It seemed like it was a bit ambiguous about whether or not any of that even happened at the end for a second, but then the creepy black butterfly arrived. The dream at the start was extra eerie, and the flashes back to it while things got scarier and scarier just made it even scarier. I didn't see the sister being dead coming, I thought she might pass the demon onto him or he would take the demon in willingly in his grief over losing his sister, I guess its good that his boyfriend showed up when he did. 

What I really love about this show is how much subtext and metaphor they add to every episode, and how much history is implied between the characters and how much nuance there so often is in their relationships, and in only twenty minutes. The relationship between the siblings in the demon episode was especially complex in everything that was implied, like you can piece together a history where the brother was once a troubled addict who spiraled along with the sister after their parents died, but he turned to religion and got clean, while the sister kept spiraling, so she feels resentful of him getting his life back on track while he feels guilty about her drug use but also pissed that she isn't working to get it together, and is probably worried that being around her could hurt his sobriety, and of course that is all complicated by the freaking demon. Is the demon a metaphor for drugs? The sister kept saying how the demon makes her feel good, how it could make her brother feel better, and it eventually kills her and almost also kills him. 

[Annber03]

14 minutes ago, tennisgurl said:

On the one hand, I love getting to watch two episodes a week, but on the other hand, I don't want this show to end too quickly, I enjoy it so much I want to spread it out. 

Same! We're moving through this season so fast! I think the next couple weeks are going to be one new episode each, though. 

[AnimeMania]

I didn't get the the significance of the episode title "Fix" until after the episode was over, it was wittily appropriate.

Edited January 28, 2021 by AnimeMania

[luckyroll3]

17 hours ago, tennisgurl said:

What I really love about this show is how much subtext and metaphor they add to every episode, and how much history is implied between the characters and how much nuance there so often is in their relationships, and in only twenty minutes. The relationship between the siblings in the demon episode was especially complex in everything that was implied, like you can piece together a history where the brother was once a troubled addict who spiraled along with the sister after their parents died, but he turned to religion and got clean, while the sister kept spiraling, so she feels resentful of him getting his life back on track while he feels guilty about her drug use but also pissed that she isn't working to get it together, and is probably worried that being around her could hurt his sobriety, and of course that is all complicated by the freaking demon. Is the demon a metaphor for drugs? The sister kept saying how the demon makes her feel good, how it could make her brother feel better, and it eventually kills her and almost also kills him. 

This, especially with the brother saying to his partner that the sister always replaces one addiction for another. If turning to religion makes you feel bad about yourself because you feel judged, turning to something that makes you feel good all while giving you the illusion that you have your addiction under control makes sense for someone trying to find a way out from that addiction. 

[Annber03]

Well. Good thing I wasn't eating anything during that episode. 

Despite the gross images, I liked this one. That's one hell of a payback. 

[AnimeMania]

Two Sentence Horror Stories     2/16/2021      8 pm      CW      One-Hour 

Episode 2.09 - "Ibeji" - (8:00-8:30 p.m. ET)

I SWEAR I WOKE UP, I KNOW I'M NOT DREAMING - When her twin sister is paralyzed suddenly from a stroke, a Nigerian American nurse must protect her from a broken medical system's neglect, and a dark force that feeds on the most vulnerable and unprotected. Martyne Musau and Nicole Nkowkolo star. Bola Ogun directed the episode written by Melody Cooper and Stephanie Adams-Santos.

Episode 2.10 - "Manifest Destiny" - (8:30-9:00 p.m. ET)

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF - An Indigenous man faces dark history when he and his girlfriend visit an Old West reenactment for their podcast. Joel Oulette, Christie Burke, Brian Cyburt and Steve Bacic star. Kimani Ray Smith directed the episode written by Ryan Harris and Migizi Pensoneau.