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Yeah fair enough (bold).

I agree that the acting in the series was top-notch (Henry Thomas has been one of my favorite actors since, well, ET) but as an adaptation of the Jackson novel, it just fell short for me. The book evokes a kind of subliminal horror which the series didn't for me (I guess it's the difference between picturing things in one's head versus seeing them on the screen). One of my favorite scenes in the book was the one where Eleanor and Theo are barricaded in the bedroom with that awful hammering presence outside and they think they are holding each others hand. But then it turns out they weren't... ooh that was creepy. I can't remember now, did they adapt that in the series?

I will say the series is WAY better than the hideous movie adaptation with Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta Jones - best avoided There is also a very old black and white adaptation which I watched a while back and which was truer to the original novel but also lacked something. I did notice that Flanagan had done his homework and connected his series with book, and I definitely take your point that he fleshed out the narrative pretty well. The book was barely a hundred pages so he probably took it more as inspiration than anything else.

Wow Hindi dubbing - that's cool! I might have to try that out sometime on Netflix...

Originally posted by: Gadbad_Ghotala

Agree to disagree here.

Also, it's a series adaption on Netflix. Pretty sure the original story wouldn't have garnered the praise it has gotten now.

And his interpretation was a lot more interesting and better for me than the original author.

Plus the way he's connected the book with the series.

Like: Eleanor - Nellie

Eleanor's past story: Olivia Crain's story

The doctor who calls them: Nellie's doctor in the show

Theo's childhood story: Same here too

Eleanor Vance: Nellie's husband's surname is Vance so she becomes Eleanor Vance

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Plus moreover, there are so many detailed character analysis for each siblings. Where the five of them represent five stages of grief, the bond between the twins, the sympathy for their mother, and the secrets of the house. Everything about that tv series is commendable and worth watching again and again.

In fact, the more you watch it, the more you love it.

I've already watched it twice and I'm gonna binge again for the third time now haha.

P.s. hindi dubbing is also good.

Originally posted by: Intoxicator

OMG was that really the episode title?? 🤣🤣

The cheap shiny blue dress, dimestore jewelry and the spider legs eyelashes waala eye makeup was dazzling? Her entire look screamed bargain-bin Princess Jasmine Halloween costume 😆

😱😱

Now I must see that!

Originally posted by: Intoxicator

Hey @Visions - I have this distinct recollection of you, I and Bakwaspolice discussing the Harry Potterverse in one of our earlier chat threads or maybe on the mothership.

How'd that happen if you don't read novels or watch movies? 😆

Aisa hua hi nahi kabhi😔

OMG, one night of sleep deprivation and already I'm hallucinating!😲

Maybe I saw the future - if you read the Harry Potter novels and/or watch the movies, Bakwaspolice will come back and that discussion will happen...😭

Originally posted by: ViSions

Aisa hua hi nahi kabhi😔

The hand thing wasn't included but everything else was and the door banging precisely that happened between Theo and Shirley both as kids and adults

There are way more creepy mind-blowing things , but did the Bent Neck Lady reveal also shocked you?

Originally posted by: Intoxicator

OMG, one night of sleep deprivation and already I'm hallucinating!😲

Maybe I saw the future - if you read the Harry Potter novels and/or watch the movies, Bakwaspolice will come back and that discussion will happen...😭

I have seen the movies lekin not planning to read the books.. Movie dekh liya badi baat hai.

And why didn't you sleep nalayak?

Originally posted by: Intoxicator

Bakwaspolice will come back and that discussion will happen...😭

Originally posted by: Gadbad_Ghotala

The hand thing wasn't included but everything else was and the door banging precisely that happened between Theo and Shirley both as kids and adults

There are way more creepy mind-blowing things , but did the Bent Neck Lady reveal also shocked you?

I had kind of guessed that based on some earlier hint/foreshadowing (I don't remember the specifics now, maybe because it was implied she might be suicidal...).

ETA: OK I remember why I guessed - goes back to the book. It's implied all the supernatural stuff, like the writing on the wall and all addressing Eleanor, was Eleanor herself using her latent telekinetic abilities. So the idea was that Eleanor's subconscious was warning herself through the haunting messages. I think that's why I thought the Bent Neck Lady was probably a future version of Nell who had fallen from a height and broken her neck (like the bride in the book) and was haunting/warning her.

I watched a lot of very visually gross horror as a teenager - Exorcist, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Evil Dead, Nightmare on Elm street, that sort of stuff. So I'm pretty insensitive to physical jump scares😆

Psychological horror is what gets me. Something about holding someone's hand for comfort and then finding out it was some apparition or paranormal entity you were touching just sends shivers down my back.
Did you watch Flanagan's Midnight Mass by any chance? Be curious to know what you thought of it.