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They have nailed the music in their trailers consistently. (That's my favorite Queen song, FWIW.)
 
Ru1977 said:
Hot damn. I was planning to watch it later but had to see if I guessed right it was the song from Highlander. No the other one.
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Y"know, I never even think of it from Highlander. It always guts me knowing May wrote it a year before Freddie knew he was dying. Funny how time and knowledge allows music to evolve.
 
docsilence said:
Y"know, I never even think of it from Highlander. It always guts me knowing May wrote it a year before Freddie knew he was dying. Funny how time and knowledge allows music to evolve.
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Thank you, I didn't even know about that part of it. But yeah it's a beautiful fucking song, and if you asked me which Queen is my favorite it would probably be the first to spring to mind. Unless I'm in a goofy mood that day, then it's the Flash Gordon song.
 
Epic feels.

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So the high level horror of Welcome to Derry is interesting because it seems to be pushing the boundaries of taste, and I say that as a good thing - usually adaptations can pull their punches and in the first two episodes they've created some of the most grotesque nightmare fuel imagery I've seen in a mainstream horror show.

But it's easy to forget how much of the original IT novel highlighted small town hatred, pettiness, and banal evil in the way people treat each other, and Welcome to Derry is ALSO not pulling punches on those, to the point I was more comfortable watching the visual horror than watching townspeople be fucking awful to each other. It's actively uncomfortable, but in a way that makes story sense rather than is just there to shock. It's UNCOMFORTABLE.

Some of the bigger plot stuff is a bit ridiculous but I'm okay with it.
 
docsilence said:
So the high level horror of Welcome to Derry is interesting because it seems to be pushing the boundaries of taste, and I say that as a good thing - usually adaptations can pull their punches and in the first two episodes they've created some of the most grotesque nightmare fuel imagery I've seen in a mainstream horror show.

But it's easy to forget how much of the original IT novel highlighted small town hatred, pettiness, and banal evil in the way people treat each other, and Welcome to Derry is ALSO not pulling punches on those, to the point I was more comfortable watching the visual horror than watching townspeople be fucking awful to each other. It's actively uncomfortable, but in a way that makes story sense rather than is just there to shock. It's UNCOMFORTABLE.

Some of the bigger plot stuff is a bit ridiculous but I'm okay with it.
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Watched the first 2 episodes the other day on Halloween, and you're right- wasn't expecting a lot of the more gruesome elements to the show. The end of episode 1 was already brutal and took me by surprise, but then episode 2 somehow got even more messed up. I do appreciate it- like you said, it's rare that a show will actually just fully devote itself to going balls-to-the-wall, but it certainly has. It even manages to squeeze in a couple of those Stephen King-esque moments of campy levity between the horror; even the opening title sequence was delightfully bonkers. I'm interested to see if it can maintain that energy throughout; I'd expect at least a slower episode or 2 before the end of the season, but I'm really liking it so far. I'm hoping it can manage to do the full 3 season plan; would love to see how horrific they can get in the early 1900's.
 
joshsquash729 said:
Watched the first 2 episodes the other day on Halloween, and you're right- wasn't expecting a lot of the more gruesome elements to the show. The end of episode 1 was already brutal and took me by surprise, but then episode 2 somehow got even more messed up. I do appreciate it- like you said, it's rare that a show will actually just fully devote itself to going balls-to-the-wall, but it certainly has. It even manages to squeeze in a couple of those Stephen King-esque moments of campy levity between the horror; even the opening title sequence was delightfully bonkers. I'm interested to see if it can maintain that energy throughout; I'd expect at least a slower episode or 2 before the end of the season, but I'm really liking it so far. I'm hoping it can manage to do the full 3 season plan; would love to see how horrific they can get in the early 1900's.
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I hadn't read into the three season plan. Going back in time with Pennywise is a great concept since some of the best parts of the novel were those hints at how long he'd been terrorizing the region.
 
domu said:
"How To with John Wilson" is brilliant. For fans of "Nathan for You." Short episodes.
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I'll plug How To with John Wilson every chance I get. Not to overhype it, but I'd call it life-changing.

It's an episodic docuseries where John Wilson explores a thesis question in every episode. Sometimes they're silly (how to work out?), sometimes they're existential (how to make small talk?). Wilson follows the prompt through a series of cascading interviews, inevitably leading to somewhere weird, funny, heartbreaking, or touching. Often all of the above.

It's a celebration of all it is to be human, especially the elements that are so rarely caught on camera.

If that sounds at all interesting to you, give the first episode (all streaming on HBO) a shot.
 
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