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I gave up watching the Haunting of Hill House ten minutes into the last episode. I think long-form horror in any medium comes down to a series of moves of sleight-of-hand disguised as narrative & designed to evade or defer the giving of sufficient information, so to be able to keep up the atmosphere. The problem is of course that the longer the film or book is the more pressing becomes the need for information. Hence the ubiquity in long-form horror of the looped structure, or too much or too little closure, and the risk of boredom.

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The Inside No. 9 live episode was a bold and effective Halloween ghost story, though I doubt it'd have the same appeal for post-broadcast viewers. I hope other TLOers caught it.

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Funnily enough I think I might enjoy last night's Inside No. 9 more on a rewatching. The meta element created an emotional distance that stopped me fully appreciating the scary stuff and so I ended up admiring the episode more than enjoying it.

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I'm afraid I have to withdraw my endorsement of the once excellent medical/science/reality/horror-anthology series Monsters Inside Me. Caught a couple of reruns recently, and it appears that some geniuses (probably a bunch of newly appointed marketing or "brand maximalizing" "experts" at whatever US channel produces the show) have effected a number of unwelcome changes to older episodes. For instance, now viewers are treated to a series of annoying, useless factoids that pop up at random and do a great job of killing off all the tension and viewer involvement the show works hard to build up.

Worst of all, though, the show is now censored. The most striking and interesting images, whether real shots of suppurating wounds, or graphic surgical footage, or vivid recreations of both (e.g., a favorite scene where doctors haul out one unlucky soul's intestines to study them more closely), are now blurred out. As creative decisions go, this is on par with replacing the zombies in that Walking Dead crapfest with bundles of CGI balloons and lollipops. (Except that, in that example, the show might conceivably benefit from the alteration.)

Well, there's no way I'm supporting a program that promotes censorship, so forget I ever mentioned it. Alas, this has always been the way of useless busybodies the world over, feeding off and messing with the efforts of their betters in order to justify their own pointless existences. Talk about a bunch of ####in' parasites.

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bin delvin

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Greatest scene in the history of television!!!

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Really enjoying a rewatch of Person of Interest. Stylish if gimmicky case of the week procedural that gradually morphs into a dystopian SF thriller that debates such issues as free will, A.I. consciousness, and the ethics of mass surveillance. And the most important question of all: who is sexier, Amy Acker or Sarah Shahi?

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Following my girlfriend's insistence, who was a fan of the old TV series, I begrudgingly watched Chilling Adventures of Sabrina with her.

It was an extremely pleasant surprise and I was totally delighted by it.

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Doomwatch

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This!