jbrbsmom

I have an actual brain injury. This is not what it is like at all. I hate the non sense where people get up and walk the day after cranial surgery. Brain injury is horrible. Many of us end up unable to walk for years, not hours. The healing journey is years and is slow and painful. It would make for boring tv to see how we really struggle. But to make light of it like this is disgusting. No respect for actual people that go through this. The heartache. The medical bills. The bankruptcy. Being homeless. The panic from the confusion. The disrespect and misunderstanding from everyone around you. That is real. This is stupid and really makes me mad that this is what tv producers think brain injury is really like. Ruins it for people who are actually struggling with the very real problems totally ignored in this ridiculous and insulting show.

I am not sure what exactly went wrong....but I found it unwatchable. A bunch of teens drunk in a mansion in the woods opt for using a creepy deck of tarot cards instead of going on a beer run? Absolutely believable. To watch a tarot card attack a person with an attic ladder? Who came up with that? Comedy...yes...horror...no...horrible...yes. Spare yourself.

And now I have to waste more words saying how disappointed I was. The acting had potential. The script should have been burned. The concept was senseless and I like a little coherence in my trashy gore fest...which wasn't even that gory. Death by attic ladder? Snooze....

I went into this show knowing nothing about it, having zero expectations. I don't want to go too in to the plot, because that will ruin the show. I will say, there are twists and turns and twists again and just when you think you know where it is going, it becomes a rollercoaster, looping you through a wild ride. This is, you see, a comedy bloody murder mystery....

The characters are colorful and outlandish, yet so well played that you actually believe you might run into one of them at your local pub.

The one flaw I a can imagine for many is the language can be beyond explicit. Some of it so delightfully and creatively explicit that you are absolutely blown away, caught between repulsion and hilarity. I laughed so hard I cried in parts. And many times, I would rewind, just to laugh that hard all over again.

You actually CAN rewatch it, picking up on subtleties and quirks and jokes and enjoy it just as much the second time around.

Please please please please please return for another season!