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My theory is... John is both the father and the killer. He and Billy confronted Erin at some point that night and the quick scene of John making Bill verbalize that he killed her was him admitting he's JUST as guilty. John's plan is to kill Billy and make it seem like he confessed to everything then blew his brains out and John hopes it ends there. The Dylan thing seems harder to parse, but I think it is just him trying to destroy evidence (whatever Erin wrote in the journals) of who DJ's father is so he can keep custody because he came to terms with it in the hospital room. Still seems like a silly overreaction, but I do think it is just a red herring.
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Billy and Dylan held Erin down while John shot her. Frank watched.
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May 26, 2021 12:09
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CornHolio posted:Billy and Dylan held Erin down while John shot her. Frank watched. Also the priest was there.
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May 26, 2021 16:36
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Wasn't Erin taken 13 whatever miles away or something then dumped back? Or am I misremembering something. Not that it would have any bearing on anything.
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Bananaquiter posted:Also the priest was there. Siobhan videotaped it.
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May 27, 2021 01:53
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Maybe this is actually a new version of the Omen and Drew is behind everything, that would be spooooooooky . I mean it would explain why literally everyone on this show is so hosed up.
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May 27, 2021 04:36
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The killer was Erin from the future.
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May 27, 2021 11:32
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gently caress me has the CIA been in here ?
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May 27, 2021 12:19
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LOL the lovely HBO Max app crashed for the finale.
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May 31, 2021 02:07
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Mmm didn't find it believable that the kid did it.
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May 31, 2021 03:19
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Mmm didn't find it believable that the kid did it. Can't have Guy Pearce in the show and not have him be the killer. Bad call. Somebody fucked around with this message at 03:34 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 03:29
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mcmagic posted:
I agree. I loved the show beyond this, but why in the world was Guy Pearce (or his character) in this show at all? It didn't really serve any purpose except to (I guess) offer a comparison with Mare's life which was already done by many other characters.
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May 31, 2021 03:58
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beergod posted:I agree. I loved the show beyond this, but why in the world was Guy Pearce (or his character) in this show at all? It didn't really serve any purpose except to (I guess) offer a comparison with Mare's life which was already done by many other characters.
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May 31, 2021 04:39
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That DJ kid is gonna be messed up when he's older.
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May 31, 2021 04:53
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Can someone tell me how Laurie is walking free, but Billy is only up for parole in a year!? All four of them would be in jail in real life lol
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May 31, 2021 04:59
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That was a very good show everyone will forget about overnight.
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May 31, 2021 05:00
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LionArcher posted:That was a very good show everyone will forget about overnight.
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straight up brolic posted:Imo it’s the best television series in years and will probably be fondly remembered, but you’re right in the sense that it’s not particularly rewatchable It’s very good but it’s not as good as queens Gambit.
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https://twitter.com/seanfennessey/status/1399204491648397315?s=21
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straight up brolic posted:Imo it’s the best television series in years and will probably be fondly remembered, but you’re right in the sense that it’s not particularly rewatchable It's not even the best HBO limited series in recent years imo....
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mcmagic posted:
The kid claimed to have returned the gun the same night but the old man noticed it missing so clearly Guy Pearce followed the kid and borrowed the gun to commit other murders.
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Reminder to check out the British series Happy Valley if you liked this. Very similar premise, it clearly inspired Inglesby, and the episode 5 climax especially owes it a direct debt
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Finished the finale and thought it was very good. I’m quite lucky with shows like this in that I watch way more for the characters than for the mystery, and this finale certainly massively delivered on the former, even if elements of the latter were lacking. Honestly I might have liked it more if the killer had just been John and the rest of the episode had just been character stuff, but then Lori’s stuff wouldn’t have been quite as gut-wrenching and that was definitely a highlight. Still, it being the son - and solving the case relying on that old guy randomly deciding to report a crime ages after the fact - was slightly messy and awkward. Kate Winslet’s facial acting in this episode, holy poo poo
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Hunter Leopardson posted:Quite a funny episode in places this week, many of the pre-release reviews I saw said next weeks episode is fantastic. pretty good guess in retrospect, tbh
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UNRULY_HOUSEGUEST posted:I've been enjoying this for the lived-in quality and the character work even if the dead girl small town premise is played out as hell. Speculating on Who Did It (I'm totally guessing, but spoilered as some people are evidently catching up): nailed it
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May 31, 2021 10:31
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This show was okay. Stumbled here and there and my feeling on the finale is that it was a bit too over-eager to squeeze the last bit of drama out of everything when I would've prefered if it had been a little more drawn out. For me this had the appeal of something like The Killing which is another flawed show I like. Also not sure if it was intentional to have Guy Pearce once again driving what looked like an open-top Jaguar XK8 but if it was a Memento reference then it's worth the chuckle.
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May 31, 2021 14:45
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To quote another HBO limited series, that finale was 'not great, not terrible.' I would recommend it to others, enjoyed it on the whole but as others said it could have dialled back a little bit and been better for it.
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I want multiple seasons of this, with Mare just constantly holding back tears and arresting her friends and family for murder. The show should go on for long enough that she just empties out the town. Jean Smart? Guilty. The girl from the Spider-Man films? Guilty. Guy Pearce arrives back into a weirdly deserted Easttown and immediately garrottes a callgirl.
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So eight months in, is John still in jail or what? Seemed he still wasn't around there at the end. I knew there was a twist coming when there was 45 minutes left and everything had seemingly been wrapped up.
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straight up brolic posted:Can someone tell me how Laurie is walking free, but Billy is only up for parole in a year!? All four of them would be in jail in real life lol Billy actively tried to hide the crime, including disposing of the body. Laurie lied to Mare about Billy doing it but that was the extend of what she did, she'd be way less likely to get serious time, especially if you could justify what she did by protecting her son. I could easily see a grand jury declining to press charges
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CornHolio posted:
Presumably they'd still charge John for statutory rape, disposing of the body, attempted murder maybe.
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For some reason I thought that Dawn Bailey had cancer and that she was going to die as soon as Katie got her new house but I guess she was just wearing a hair covering
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Your Gay Uncle posted:For some reason I thought that Dawn Bailey had cancer and that she was going to die as soon as Katie got her new house but I guess she was just wearing a hair covering hahaha I thought that too. Did she not???? also UGH UGH UGH NO https://twitter.com/thr/status/1399730663629131778?s=21 Please don’t do this HBO just let a miniseries be a loving miniseries
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I feel like there must have been something else going on with Dylan that was not explained at the end: I find it hard to believe he would go to so much trouble to burn the journals and threaten someone with a gun, over just not wanting to give DJ up. Did he even know at that point that he's not the father? And by the end he's ok with just giving him to Laurie. Those three were up to some poo poo, there must have been something else in those journals. Or maybe the screenwriters just forgot.
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I got to the second to last episode and just called it quits. Under different direction this could have been prestige television but it's just so formulaic and by-the-numbers. The show barely had enough steam for one season. I'd be very surprised if there's any follow-up to this.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:For some reason I thought that Dawn Bailey had cancer and that she was going to die as soon as Katie got her new house but I guess she was just wearing a hair covering She had cancer, or at least I remember a reference to her cancer treatments. It wasn't a big plot point though, and honestly I don't think it would've made a difference if she never had cancer.
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grate deceiver posted:I feel like there must have been something else going on with Dylan that was not explained at the end: I find it hard to believe he would go to so much trouble to burn the journals and threaten someone with a gun, over just not wanting to give DJ up. Did he even know at that point that he's not the father? And by the end he's ok with just giving him to Laurie. Those three were up to some poo poo, there must have been something else in those journals. Or maybe the screenwriters just forgot. This is the problem when you go the “everyone’s a suspect!!!!” route really
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Escobarbarian posted:hahaha I thought that too. Did she not???? Just do a different show with the same people, like AHS, but better. Mare of Jacksonville: Mare is a crocodile farmer in Florida. Mare of Minneapolis: HOT DOG WAR and so on.
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Escobarbarian posted:hahaha I thought that too. Did she not???? I guess she can move in with Richard and solve crimes in a new town. Or maybe she can be the new Zabel and they just send her around the state to solve murders. Anyway I wonder if Lori knew her husband was going to murder his brother at the cabin because goddamn was she chill with it.
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Escobarbarian posted:hahaha I thought that too. Did she not???? Well I assumed she was wearing that head scarf because of chemo hair loss, and if her hair is growing back then she stopped treat or was in remission.
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