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Old 31-10-2016, 15:42
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Starts tonight on 5Star. Anyone seen it, is it any good? Looks good from the trailer.
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Old 31-10-2016, 15:49
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Got it on series record and will watch all six episodes once aired

I have heard mixed reviews from the US. Not that i take reviews into consideration.
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Old 31-10-2016, 22:41
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Seems a bit slow and when something looks like it may happen they cut to ads. Maybe being the first episode it's doing scene setting but it needs to be gripping as well.
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Old 01-11-2016, 15:18
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Creepy TV can unnerve me but this didn't faze me at all. Pretty tame opener.
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Old 01-11-2016, 17:37
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it's quite good , very Stephen King-y , an interesting part is an old 80's tv puppet show which has some sort of spooky effect on the kids .
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Old 08-11-2016, 13:34
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Seen the fist episode - surprisingly low key and absorbing.
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Old 08-11-2016, 14:52
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I watched the first two episodes but the acting is too awful for me to have continued.
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Old 08-11-2016, 18:06
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I wish more people knew about this show .

it's very subtle for an american show , more like one of those old BBC ghost stories
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Old 08-11-2016, 20:47
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Seen the fist episode - surprisingly low key and absorbing.
Totally agree. I thought it was great and an excellent opener. It had me hooked with the hook a puppet show on TV that never existed that the kids watched and they ended up murdered.

I found it creepy, i found it tense in parts and the overall vibe was unnerving. First thing that came to mind after i watched it was The Twilight Zone. The creatures were creepy looking especially that tooth man.

It's not badly acted at all. I thoroughly enjoyed it and going to watch Ep2 later tonight.
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Old 08-11-2016, 22:32
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Good episode, my only quibble is the casting of the lead who is a bit wooden and Fiona Shaw who is A a bit too old (given the time line of events she'd be closer to 45 than her actual 58 years) and is B far too urbane to be a midwest American in my own mind!
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Old 09-11-2016, 17:19
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Really enjoyed what I've seen of this. Effective 'Stephen King' vibe, and as others have said suprisingly subtle and atmospheric. Great cinematography as well.

Re the comments about the lead Paul Schneider's performance, he's playing a character who's recently been in a psychiatric institution for psychosis, so his low key, withdrawn nature is probably a result of him still being on anti-psychotics.
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Old 12-11-2016, 20:29
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Good episode, my only quibble is the casting of the lead who is a bit wooden and Fiona Shaw who is A a bit too old (given the time line of events she'd be closer to 45 than her actual 58 years) and is B far too urbane to be a midwest American in my own mind!
but she's the mother of the main character who must be at least 35 .
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Old 13-11-2016, 13:21
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but she's the mother of the main character who must be at least 35 .
Yeah I thought about this afterwards and it's about right. My problem is that I refuse to believe that 1988 was nearly 30 years ago!
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Old 13-11-2016, 19:24
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Binged on 5 episodes of this today. What an unexpected pleasure! Creepiest show I've seen all year. Reminded me a bit of True Detective S1 with the long slow tracking shots. Really atmospheric.
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Old 18-11-2016, 08:28
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Binged the first three episodes. It's ok. It's creepy without a doubt.
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Old 18-11-2016, 21:29
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Watched the first epiosde expecting it to be dreadful but quite enjoyed it, and the second one. Found the puppets beyond creepy. I'd never have slept a wink ever again if I'd seen those things as a child
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Old 18-11-2016, 21:38
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I've seen the first episode, put me in mind of some of the children's drama on cbbc. Not terrible, but not that great either.
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Old 20-11-2016, 21:40
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I am on tenterhooks for the fourth episode..!
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Old 20-12-2016, 15:31
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This has had a late-night/smalll-hours repeating so I caught up with the episode I missed - it's always the one with the critical nuance that isn;t covered in the 'previously on' bit.

I've seen the first episode, put me in mind of some of the children's drama on cbbc. Not terrible, but not that great either.
Other episodes included a bit more stabbing and more buckets of blood than (I assume) most cbbc dramas, unless there's been a bit too much modernisation going on at the beeb lately.

Excellently creepy I thought, definitely had the right atmosphere at the right places, but not one for the 'action every moment' crowd. And didn't turn out quite how I expected either.
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