The final twist in Us – that Red and Adelaide switched places as children and have effectively been living each other’s lives – forces a reassessment of everything you’ve seen so far, inspiring new sympathy for ‘Red’, and bringing an uncomfortable new dimension of humanity to the Tethered. It’s a reframing that brings the whole notion of villainy into question. “The protagonist in the movie is the surrogate for the audience. I wasn’t doing my core theme any justice if I wasn’t revealing that ‘we’ have been the bad guy in this movie, we’ve been following the villain,” Peele elaborates. “I say villain lightly because I think there are many experiences of the film, and I think a lot of people go through a question of ‘what is good and evil?’ Does that even exist? Both characters are loveable and terrifying based on the lives they’ve led. They’ve inverted their paths.”
More begetting children and all their names before coming back around to more of David’s reign. So many chapters are just appendices to previous events.
Two Paralipomenon, say that five times fast. So now it’s on to Solomon and his riches (again), Roboam talking about how his little finger is bigger than his dad’s dick, and Jeroboam getting whipped with scorpions all the way to the fall of Jerusalem. It’s basically another look at what we saw in Kings.
A mish-mash of various ideas from earlier books. It has the vibe of Haunted Mask and stealing secrets from weird adults, the experimenting with illicit stuff from Monster Blood, animal transformations from various books, bratty younger sister who bullies the protagonist, a Slappy-like snarky villainous character. It’s too much of a remix and more slapstick than horror.
A decent creature story, but the latter half kind of sags with the protagonist spending a lot of time just trapped in a freezer and struggling to stay warm. The villain is genuinely frightening but also one-dimensional and doesn’t really explain his motivation well. And there’s not enough of the egg monsters. It’s close to a top tier book but just sputters too much along the way.
The most fun take on Jaws since the original. A real hoot and also really fucked up at times. An understanding of horror by someone who continues to bring cool ideas to movies.
Really going for it right out of the gate. I’m in. Now I need to know if I should go back and read Fear Street after reading this bunch of Goosebumps books.
A nostalgia bomb like every one of these 90s cartoons tends to be, though the tropes eventually wear thin when watching it all in one go. Monterey Jack may be what crystallized my appreciation of cheese.
This show… it doesn’t build the way Breaking Bad builds. It’s more of a roller coaster with the sense of hitting the same drop a few too many times. This season is a bookmark in place while you wait for the extra season that should have been season five.
“I always thought of the family in terms of a certain archetypal foursome. Adelaide is the leader, the captain. Zora is the warrior. She acts before she thinks and she kicks ass. Gabe is the fool, even though on the surface he looks like he might be the leader or the warrior. And Jason is the wizard. He’s the magician. I have this kinda concept of Jason that he can sorta see through the veil. You can see these moments where he’s observing his mother and he’s meant to be a little step ahead of us, the most clever of us that’s sorta figuring out there’s something more to Adelaide’s story than we see.”
– Jordan Peele’s commentary on Jason and Adelaide’s relationship in Us (2019)
“I always thought of the family in terms of a certain archetypal foursome. Adelaide is the leader, the captain. Zora is the warrior. She acts before she thinks and she kicks ass. Gabe is the fool, even though on the surface he looks like he might be the leader or the warrior. And Jason is the wizard. He’s the magician. I have this kinda concept of Jason that he can sorta see through the veil. You can see these moments where he’s observing his mother and he’s meant to be a little step ahead of us, the most clever of us that’s sorta figuring out there’s something more to Adelaide’s story than we see.”
– Jordan Peele’s commentary on Jason and Adelaide’s relationship in Us (2019)
“What Get Out posits, correctly, is that to be a minority in these United States is always already to exist in a state of wariness and justifiable fear for your life – no Freddy, Jason, or Michael Myers needed.“
Read Ebony’s great review of Get Out, brand new for our website!
“What Get Out posits, correctly, is that to be a minority in these United States is always already to exist in a state of wariness and justifiable fear for your life – no Freddy, Jason, or Michael Myers needed.“
Read Ebony’s great review of Get Out, brand new for our website!
