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This is based on just 2 episodes. Love the main characters and the chemistry is awesome between them, and LOVED the first episode where she was cleaning the office and almost solved the case, BUT I get really irritated constantly seeing things that just wouldn't happen in real life, especially on a real crime scene. Examples, ep 2, they suspect the killer jumped in the trunk of the car but prior to doing any testing, she jumps in completely disturbing evidence. Happened on the roof too with the phone and moving stuff around before they even took pictures. I'm not in the police investigation field, but anyone can spot this. Outside of the main characters, there's also some bad acting. So sad though. Great premise and love the back story of her looking for her husband who disappeared and may keep watching just for that, but PLEASE make the scenarios more believable and get some better bit actors. Might give it a 4 or 5 after that.

Spoilers included - WATCH IT TWICE! I don't think this is the film most people think it is. Stop the film at about 55 minutes and look at the ghost of Krista in the corner of her small apartment; and then a long-haired figure once in her daughters dark bedroom. I believe Krista is haunting her and turning her mad (who started the metronome in the middle of the night? Who keeps ringing her doorbell? Is it Krista or all in her head?). One review I read said the last 1/3 of the movie may be what's happening in her twisted mind, not what's actually happening and that's what made me watch it twice. I wanted to check this theory. Many events just didn't make sense in this time period. Examples of this include her walking into a room of robot-like people around a table just looking at her, her rampage onto the performance stage and no one even noticing her beforehand, and one of the last scenes where she has to look into a bubble of women looking down in shame arranged similar to an orchestra and she was the one picking the new girl to abuse. She continues to get further into her paranoia and guilt. I watched it the 1st time and gave it about 2.5 stars looking at from a surface-level, but then watched it again and wow, it's way more of a psychological thriller than I thought! One more comment. During my first watching of the film, I thought it was a bit slow and looked past many small things, but then the second time around, I started looking at every scene with a microscope and many things they throw in are brilliant! The book Krista gave her about a scorned lover killing themselves; The music score at the end about a monster. I never read the original book but will be doing that soon. This movie is definitely worthy of an award and Blanchett player her brilliantly.

Spoilers in this review. I had to think about this at least a day before writing. I started watching it with great anticipation, especially after recent awards. I thought it was a little slow to start but was growing on me with some good comical scenes, amazing acting, beautiful scenery, and very interesting characters. I was excited to see how the characters would continue to develop throughout the movie. I also slowly started seeing the parallel of a civil war going on right behind them while the main characters were also having their struggles. Where this all went wrong for me was about halfway through when realizing the plot, or lack there of, didn’t make sense, and how I didn’t believe that some of the characters would eventually do the things they did or act the way they did. - Why would a man so passionate about his music, self-mutulate to the point of not being able to play or write his own music for the satisfaction of proving to his past friend he would do this if he didn’t stay away from him? He did not appear mad, and some commented he was too stubborn or proud but I think in the end he was the real town’s idiot for doing this. - How in the world did this guy lose so many fingers and not appear in pain or acquire an infection or a swollen hand? It’s the 1920’s with lacking health care. I’ve lost a part of a finger and it’s very painful and your whole hand swells up. That bothered me. - Why would so many stand idly knowing that the police officer was beating and sexually abusing his son, with the main character acting like he was a great friend and picking him over the other? Sure, he was authority, but the town seemed to have total disregard for this poor kid (who btw did an amazing job acting the part). - And why did this poor kid have to die at the end? Was the story not dark enough so they had to throw that in there too? - What was up with the old lady/witch? Again, a lost opportunity in character development. Did her whole story not make the final cut? Loved her character at the beginning but it made no sense as the movie went on without development. - And I have to throw this in as an animal lover/live stock owner… why would a donkey choke and vomit on a finger when in reality donkeys can’t regurgitate? And here again, the story is not dark enough, so let’s throw another log on the proverbial dark comedy fire and take away the only thing this guy had left in his life to love. It all just made no sense to me from middle to end and just kept getting darker and darker and more and more depressing. Not a movie I’ll see again. I would be OK seeing individual actors getting awards since they were all amazing, but the picture as a whole, failed in so many ways.

My family and I binge-watched the season over 2 days and loved it! The actress who portrayed Wednesday, whom at first I wasn’t sure if her look was right, quickly changed my mind doing an amazing job throughout all the episodes. Her performance really made the show! There were however a couple actors that I didn’t think did the original characters justice; ie her dad Gomez. He’s a great actor but wasn’t right for this role and there was zero chemistry between him and Morticia. Outside of him and some side characters, everyone else did amazing. Without giving too much away, it was also a fun guessing game on who the monster was and we all had our own ideas based on various deductions of reasoning. I can understand why some may think this is yet another teen drama and I did have some concerns after episode 1, but I think the storyline along with outstanding sets, backgrounds and characters diverted me away from thinking that. Overall, super fun for teens to 60+ and really hoping for a season 2!!