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I expected sth nice from the master - Stephen King but what I watched it was just a below-mediocre dark comedy with many foolish & highly violent scenes. The same motif appearing in King's stories - some higher or lower childhood trauma, bullying etc. And a meeting after many years with coming back to a town of their teen years - hmm, sth like "It" or lately "Salem's Lot". Some silly story of out-of-this-world monkey toy which has supernatural powers of killing but not on-demand like a genie but with its own "mind". It'a truly annoying that most horror movies I've watched lately (of 2023, '24 or '25) they were more like comedy horrors but not any truly scary thrilling horror movies which I could recommend to anyone. I'm hoping that they can find sth more of true horror genre within King's novels which would be worthy to be made as a remake. Maybe they will come back once with a new version of "Night Flier" or "Cujo" or even better "Tommyknockers".

It's another tv series with a motif of poor girls victimised by male "monsters" as well as bad parents who work too much and don't support their kids or actually in this case their one kid. It's too bad that it's shown a 15-yo girl attracting a much ilder guy and bringing him to a cabin for potential dirty stuff. It only shows that she's taught that her actions bring no consequences while she should have been taught to avoid some risky situations especially at that young age with much older guys. There's also shown another man who doesn't listen to girls' needs and it seems to be also a main motif of that sort of tv series. Depicting women as "femme fatale" it's considered as misogynistic yet men appearing as aggressors and rapists it's all "perfectly normal".

Another level of girls depicted as "victimised" it's by showing that Stella couldn't learn, finish high school and go to any studies as an effect . It's not considred that she basically had no interest in anything - as she says - but only in sport like playing handball.

She as a young adult woman, she makes decisions about her life and future, also her professional future. She, as being unable to make plans about her potential career path it only shows how immature she was in comparison to her hard working girl mate from high school, who's said to be as "always studying".

You must know there are numerous kids from extremely difficult backgrounds, violent abusive backgrounds who are highly motivated to study hard and establish a better future for them. If they had a small part of possibilities that Stella had they would be very happy, yet Stella shows a typical motif of BLAMING parents for all her mishaps and misfortunes. It's a typical psychoanalytic motive of an immature adult who projects self-anger into parents or other significant people yet being in denial to own actions and all that she screwed up personally in life.