User Reviews

Excuse my inappropriate headline, just trying to use some dark humor to lighten myself myself after a very dark episode. Like when that girl cut herself, that was the most real depiction I've EVER seen of cutting. It's incredibly sickening, but at the same time I feel like it serves the story in giving it more layers. At least it could've. Where I shine away from giving the episode 10 stars for the ***incredible acting from Rosie Simon and the very well-written character of Amy Chao, is when they go straight from this completely innocent self-harmer to violently murdering her for no prupose but shock value and death count. I get that this is a slasher show, it's literally the title, but it's certainly not well-written when it comes to that. I feel sorry that Chao would meet her end like that, her death being no service to the story at all, and then right after the most vulnerable scene I can come to think of (even more so than that scene from 13 Reasons Why). As someone who's been struggling with self harm, that is just a very distasteful thing to do of the showrunners/screenwriters. I sure feel like they lost a lot of respect right there.

Kudos to Rosie Simon. I wish her the best in her acting career going forward. Girl's got talent.

Wow Amy is by far my favorite character ever written for this show, it's really unfortunate that she didn't get featured more. Her story starts with a car crash on her birthday as a child bc her dad answered the cell phone and looked away from the road. Which is paralleled by Amy hitting Kit with her car bc she was distracted by her cell phone on the night of the solstice. We also see a flashback of Amy hitting it off with Kit and beginning to discover that she might be asexual. And asexual representation is awesome and I actually think they did a good job of trying to express what it's like discovering that about yourself and the difficulties of explaining it to others, especially partners. Amy's partner Xander got really jealous of Amy's connection to Kit and we learn that Xander was the one in Kit's apartment on the solstice bc he was looking for evidence of Amy cheating. What a jerk. But also, I would like to know what Amy was watching on her VR headset. I'm starting to get confused about the druid bc Amy and Kit were talking about drilling a hole in the middle of your forehead to get high, and coincidentally that is the method that the druid used to kill Amy, and I just don't know how the druid would know about that. But Amy's death was really sad to me since she was actually a decent person unlike some of the other deaths and other ppl living in the building, and she was struggling after losing Xander and tried to cut her wrist. Just very sad and emotional. Overall I thought this episode did a great job with character development and transitioning between flashbacks and current time, as well as wrapping up some other plot points by discovering bodies and the police doing some investigating.

Amy didn't deserve this. Most of the victims on the show deserve it. Even the "first" victims like Kit and Talvinder deserve it. But this season is just no.

I'm done. I've now watched half of the season and I don't care who lives or dies. I don't really care about any of the characters in this show. Each one is cut from the over-used stereotype cloth so none of them resonate. The Druid is only a marginally scary figure. The show has become an excuse for the stupid, brutal and graphic murders. And there is no sympathy for any of the whiny, weak-willed characters. And, you can mostly tell who's going to die by who is featured in a flashback. And the flashbacks, we found in this episode, don't really matter. And if they don't really matter, why am I watching? You see where I'm going with this.

The coroner tells us that the dissected biology teacher was killed by someone with skills in cutting open a body. I just know if I finish this season, it's going to be one of the kids that did it - who else can move about in a school and not send up any red flags. It's going to be someone without the skillset the coroner spoke of. Because at this point no one in the cast has those skills and while throwing in a new character with surgical skills in the 11th hour wouldn't be the worst sin committed in this season, it would almost be necessary for this to make any sense. Either way they go is lame so I'm out. The first two seasons were fun but this one is a cumbersome class in melodramatic overacting from a weak script full of characters no one will remember next week.

However, if a week goes by and, no matter how hard I try, I just can't get these darn characters out of my head, well, then, I'll finish the season and review the last four shows.

Probably not as likely as if I turned out to be The Druid.