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s01e05 — The Bent-Neck Lady
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| Release Date: | 12.10.2018 15:00 |
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Discussion: Season 1, Episode 5 Join the Discussion
326The older brother is James McAvoy
Nell - M. iNOS
One of the sisters is on Jolie
Her therapist is just fucking brilliant. The patient is in a very unstable condition, looks terrible, and may not be taking medication. She constantly and very vividly sees all kinds of game and is very afraid of it. And what the hell do you advise her to do? Of course, to take and return alone to the house with which all her nightmares are connected! It's fucking awesome! What if she'd been scared out of her mind there? Given the condition of the house, to be afraid of a rat and fall into a rotten hole is like spitting. In short, even if there were no ghosts there, the advice was still the most moronic.
But going to an abandoned house in the middle of the night is not the best idea.
PS: That was before even former fans and connoisseurs of the series began to disown the series, now they sometimes admit that the series is even not about 4 (purely IMHO)
I actually came here to talk about the finale of the series, which shocked me a little, and then a tub of slop is poured on one of my favorite movies, cool, che.
Poor girl. Since childhood, she had seen her death without realizing it. This episode broke my heart.
but the finale has come, all this with the medallion, the dance, and the hints that all this is glitches due to the refusal to take medications (which I understand was prompted by gemini), it's cool
Will it turn out in the future that it is the "Man with a cane" that twin brother Nell. There is a logic that it is the "hat" that connects "them". As a child, he wore this hat, and the man with the cane eventually took it, that is, he himself. Omg.
I can't say that I'm watching horror, because in some places I want to cry (in the moments when Nell was spinning in an empty house, and you know that she's going to die eventually).
Bravo, this is the best thing I've seen. I am already sure that this masterpiece will be reviewed in a year.
Moreover, everyone living in this house understood that something was wrong with him.
In general, it's very cool. I look at it in one gulp.
I remember once playing a game (SOMA is called) and there was a tense moment when I almost managed to escape from a monster and there were literally a couple of seconds left before rescue...he picks up and turns on the lights in our house and the nearest aahahh. It was cool and scary))
At such moments, you begin to believe a little in all sorts of mystical phenomena.
No, it's just a funny (actually scary ahah) coincidence)) Imagine how many people on average play games, watch movies or TV series, naturally, at least once during this time, but it will coincide that the lights will be turned off)))
PS: I made a mistake there, I meant that the light turned off when I was playing the game, but it didn't turn on))
Then the light was turned back on) And five minutes later, they knocked me out again.
Here's the same rope, casually mentioned, about a certain connection between the twins and all sorts of similar things
Yes, I understand that the gun on the wall should go off, but it was too, too easy To hope until the last moment that she hadn't hanged herself:(
The problem is that in almost any other series this "gun" would not have existed, it would either have SUDDENLY decided to hang herself, or there was not a gun, but a piano : with
Creepy and interesting, we look further
I'm not superstitious, but it's fucking gloomy.
AND HOW TO SLEEP NOW AFTER THAT?
I'm very afraid of all kinds of horror mysticism and everything related, but now I won't be afraid to sleep alone in the dead of night; the story is very beautifully written, even though it is terrible in itself. I bow to the talent of the creators of the series
Although I agree with the whole series. It's kind of strained. It was more interesting about other children.
- her little sister found out about Theo's "sensitivity", but it was unclear where these inscriptions came from. There was something Theo couldn't understand.
- after her husband's death, Nell became obsessed with his death and pestered Theo to "probe" the places where her husband was, although the latter is not particularly pleased. Theo perceived this as insanity against the background of grief and distanced herself from her sister, to some extent accusing her of being fixated on the loss.
- Theo didn't really believe in "the woman with the neck," in "Luke's girlfriend." Theo always felt emotions, coldness, hidden intentions, psychological walls, but she did not see ghosts. Maybe it's the trace of a ghost who tore off a flap from a Trapdoor as a child. therefore, she is more on the side of skeptics who accept ghosts as "fears", "nightmares" and "psychological traps".
- Theo harshly accused the latter of killing herself the whole process from Nell's death to the touch. she was madly angry and offended that Nell, who "knows what the whole family goes through when someone ends their life, and did it anyway." She's hurt, hurt, and filled with rage, and she still doesn't believe that Nell really had anything else besides a suicide wish.
and, at the moment of touch.... Theo sees that all of the above is not true. That my sister wasn't lying or crazy, but she was pretty sane, almost until she died. that the woman with the neck is her real vision. that her death wasn't suicide. that Nell had been waiting for everyone's understanding all her life, but no one believed her.
I watched it at night and, to be honest, I was so impressed by everything that was happening on the screen, I was so imbued with Nell's story that I even dreamed of a sequel.
There are a lot of moments that just give you goosebumps, for example, when Nell drives up to the house, the light turns on, and the porch light flashes twice. Mom's calling me home. And there are a lot of really heartbreaking moments, for example, when Nell is sitting alone in a hotel and no one answers her calls, maybe if they had answered, she would not have gone to this house and would have stayed alive! And, of course, a dance with her dead husband... Straight for the soul.
I don't want to write a lot of text, but I still have 2 questions after watching it.:
1. At the hotel, Nell sees her brother Luke on the ceiling. I take it he's next?
2. At the end, when Nell is standing on the stairs, Olivia (the mother) puts a garrote around her neck. The mother burst into tears. Does the "house" force her to kill her own children?
And I think you'll answer your own questions after watching the following episodes)
Another thing is under the last episode The Netflix series, that's where the territory of speculation and post-facts begins ahahha
That's what we're doing right now for the final episode of the season, you'll see soon and find out why)))
I watched it to the end, but I didn't get an answer to the first question =(
, it was full of goosebumps at the end.
10/10
Oh, it's an amazing episode. It 's a goosebumps finale !
The moment near the vending machine is creepy. I shuddered!
Now it's wildly interesting how this whole story will end. How does one go to bed when it's so interesting? So many questions!
Has she lost her mind? Did the house drive you crazy? Ahh!
And I somehow drew a parallel very easily and quickly with the fact that both Steve and Shirley had dropped her calls. At the same time, she called Steve first, because, no matter what, she loves him, trusts him, she just wanted to talk. (
It's stupid, of course, that she went to the house alone, and at night, everything gets worse at night, and if you're so depressed, you can think vaguely, and your brain can give you thoughts and ideas that may (and usually turn out to be) not quite true or completely untrue. At some point, it seemed that she was walking in her sleep (because this dance is around the house), but it still seems to be such a powerful hallucination.
The series is very transformed when it removes computer ghosts and tells the story of a broken family, people, the trauma they have experienced and how it haunts them and literally drives them crazy. This kind of story is much more interesting to watch than some attempts at horror / horror itself as a genre. At least for me.
And it was so great that Arthur was next to her and helped her wake up.
I feel so sorry for them ㅜㅜ
... But no, no one believed the weak girl when she needed it most.
And this series is just👏🙏😱👵
Welcome to the new gray hairs on my head))
I have so many impressions, I want to say so much, but I will be brief:
It's necessary! And how do you sleep now, pray tell?
It was creepy, very creepy.
When Nell was there in this house alone, with these glitches, and she was kind of happy... Well, we thought she was happy. The family finally paid attention to her, they love her, believe her! And a loved one is nearby. And the closest person (the twin brother) has been cured and is standing here, right in front of her.
Welcome home!
Of course, if you think about it, it wasn't just medication withdrawal and depression that drove her, but also her family. They all turned away from her. When she called, they didn't pick up the phone.
Fuhhhhh, I'm going to think about this series for five days now...
I really like the parallel montage of Childhood, weddings, and real events.
And the move with the Lady turned out to be unexpected for me. It was great to have all these visions in the house, with the locket and mom.
It would be a shame if there were no ghosts in the end, and the whole house was just one big Baskervilles dog.
But so far, the cryptotenyushka is a credit
I feel terribly sorry for Nell, and for the whole family. The moment with the locket and mom was very sad.
P.S. Victoria Pedretti was great in this episode. It's a very convincing game to portray so many emotions in such a way that the viewer empathizes... Good girl. I hope that everything in her career will turn out well.
Everyone said the show was really great, but I don't really like horror. But it was still interesting, because I once wanted to buy a book.
I really like this alternate revelation of each of the children in the present and the past.
I'm not a big fan of horror moves, so everything shocks me here. 😂
I guessed after the first episode that Nell was hanging over herself, lying on the couch. But I didn't think she would be a straight Bent-Neck Lady.
My suspicions are growing stronger that this House is traveling in time. And either captures the souls of the dead in it, like a House in AHS, or time travel is simply mixed with a large number of mental and mental disorders.
A very beautiful actress, by the way, yes. And he plays great - all those twitching muscles on his face are aerobatics! If not the graphics, of course.
Nell, Theo, and Luke are my favorite characters so far. The actresses playing Nell and Theodora are stunningly beautiful, it's a pleasure to look at them.
Then again! My heart has already sunk into my heels!
16th floor! The balcony was closed, the windows were curtained, and it took all my courage to pull them back!
It turned out... the cat slipped onto the balcony, but I didn't notice and locked it there. And so she decided to ask to come back, hanging on the window, and scratching the glass with her hind paws...
But on a stationary pitch, there are cases when their own messages are duplicated when they are sent or two pluses are added to one comment ahahah))
The most striking thing, of course, was the final scene - when she comes to the house, and what she sees there, and - eerily - her dancing in silence, in an empty dark house. Well, the hanging scene. It's brilliant.
But the attacks of paralysis are actually frightening.
Strong series
Why did she see her own ghost? As a warning? Then she would have stopped seeing him as soon as they left home. Soon, it was just the house that tormented her, but why did he choose her, and not, for example, Abigail or any other old owner of the house.
I also wonder if Theo got her powers from a ghost, or is it just a legacy? And by the way, what did the mother see during a migraine?
So far, there are only some questions. But at least the characters of the children are revealed to us.
Stunningly beautiful actress Carla Gugino, in this series she was made into a goddess.
Does it turn out that the actress (Theo) just overplayed this moment, or did they not show us something else?
The acting is great, the picture here needs to kiss the hands of both the decorators and the cameraman!
The plot, the staging!
How each character is worked out in his feelings and pain!
Oh, my gad, this is one of the best TV shows I've ever seen.
There is nothing superfluous here.
And how finely the line between mysticism and the psyche is drawn, wow. Take what's closer to your heart. So far, they are very much covering up the possible curse of nervous breakdowns, mental illnesses, childhood injuries, PTSD and depression at home! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
At first, I didn't really like the series, but slowly it starts to drag on, and then I even burst into tears when she met her husband again.
They were a wonderful couple, and the way he comforted her was very gentle. It's a pity that the outcome is like this.
So she came into the house and I'm thinking, "How did she commit suicide? what thoughts will prompt her to take this step?" My assumptions were wrong.
There are so many movies/TV series about time travel and the like that Nell's sudden timescales after her death didn't raise any questions. As if this is something that goes without saying and does not require explanation.
I haven't been expecting anything from TV series lately, but at the moment I'm cautiously raising the bar of expectations. I can't say that it was shot without lengthy scenes, but still, after the rest of the novelties that I had to give up, it inspires hope.
As a matter of principle, I rarely build theories in the course of watching if there are more episodes ahead. And now I understand that when everyone woke up clutching their necks, one might have guessed about Nell and her ghost.
10 out of 10
the episode is very cool
Nell is a sweet and kind girl. It is a pity that she was able to feel loved, accepted and significant only in the last moments of her life, in a fit of despair and madness. If instead of a dismissive "quit taking pills again?" her family gave her all this, the entities in the house would not be able to break and take her away, and this makes it even more painful. It's been a long time since a movie or TV series made me cry, but I don't regret it in any way.
the end of the episode is unexpected. Kapets, how unexpected! It was a twist!
But I keep thinking that Nell has sleep paralysis for a reason. Maybe she has some kind of astral movement at this moment? It wasn't for nothing that Luke said she wasn't dead... or was she just moving in the form of a lady? 🤯
But in general, everything is very mysterious. And it doesn't seem like ghosts have anything to do with it...
the actress managed to convey the fear, pain and hopelessness of living with a lady very well. Just imagine: you see this something. Constantly. Mental exhaustion. Nothing helps. I managed to put myself in her shoes. It's horrible. That's why I feel sorry for her the most.
This is due to the fact that in the past and in the current situation, there is no closeness or trust between family members without visible social and financial problems. Even between children, even after a crisis.
It's a little crazy to watch.
Why don't any of them believe or trust each other? How can you live like this?
Somewhere in the second or third episode, I thought that Nell's mother was hanging over her. At the beginning of this one, a wild thought came to mind that it was Nell herself. Stunningly. I love these turns.
It's also great when the picture comes together. Calls from Nell, dancing in the house, the light flashing twice, the writing on the wall, the rope mentioned, the neck rubbing... You can see right away that they worked hard on the series.
Now it's very interesting who will be at the center of the next series. The kids are over, and there are still five episodes left. They'll probably give more episodes to the parents, the ghosts themselves, and definitely the last night.
Well, when I woke up, I heard and understood everything, I was even able to open my eyes (superhuman efforts!) and see the operating room through the crack. I wanted to signal that I was awake, conscious, but I couldn't! I tried my best to move, to say something, and it was an unbearable feeling of powerlessness and claustrophobia. It lasted a couple of minutes, maybe then she fell asleep. It was incredibly scary. But I realized pretty quickly that it becomes much easier when you stop resisting and trying to move, when you just accept the situation and relax.
This never happened in real life. Apparently, anesthesia affected me so much (in principle, does it affect me so much?) that the work of muscles and consciousness became out of sync.
Now I'm afraid of surgery and anesthesia solely because it might happen again.
Victoria Pedretti's brilliant acting, cinematography, screenwriting, and directing are all excellent.
Since the very first episode, I've been curious about the moment that little Nelly calls the ghost she sees "Lady." Not a monster, an ugly ghost, or a creepy woman, but a "Lady with a crooked Neck."
In my opinion, this appeal traces the human feelings of a little girl towards what she saw: sympathy, regret, pity.
The hanged adult Nell, in that moment between life and death in which she sees herself as a little girl, does not have an evil, cruel, bloodthirsty face, but the desperate and suffering, grieving and hopeless face of an unhappy lady.
Yes, it's incredibly scary. Especially for a child (hence the adult Nell's impression of the Lady as an evil spirit who stalks and wants to kill). But it seemed to evoke sympathy.
Now it's unclear what could happen to sleep paralysis someday😬
It's creepy that they're all together in such a beautiful, bright house, surrounded by family and friends, and Nell doesn't understand that something is wrong because her mind has completely given out.
And the story with my husband is very sad ( there were tears at their dance 💔
How the frames match and blend into each other is incredibly enjoyable to watch.
I like how the pieces from the first episode add up to the overall plot, how details are added to them, and how the story unfolds. To be honest, I didn't expect the series to be so exciting. I really like how the transitions between the past and the present are made. It looks great!
This is the best episode so far, in my opinion.
Nellie deserves better. Nelly had to be protected at all costs!!
The scene of the illusion of the presence of the family and Arthur is right to tears. An unexpected ending. It's a pity for Nell, before she died, even though it was illusory, everyone asked for forgiveness.
The actress perfectly conveys emotions.
initially, I came to watch the series because of Victoria Pedretti, and I fell in love with her character quite quickly. even if it was due to a bit of bias, she became for me the character in this series that aroused the most sympathy. From the very beginning, I suspected that she had sleep paralysis, and because of this, I doubted until the very end whether everyone in this family was really sick, and that was all. but I did not expect such a turn... it's really cruel to fall out of a state of narcotic euphoria so abruptly, to experience real despair and in the last moments look into the face of herself, who still does not realize what really haunted her all this time...
One of the most emotional episodes for me. 🔥
I really like it with Nell - as a character and an actress. It's a pity that she died :
And the whole series is intertwined with the past and present of these characters. Each of them has become a unique personality. Someone has achieved success by writing about their mysterious past. Someone is an ordinary worker who does charity work. Someone is a psychologist who is sensitive to the client. Someone couldn't stand the trials of childhood and went astray. Someone has become too vulnerable. And someone is lonely.
in general, I got into the story of her and Luke the most. I hope the guy ends up like his twin.
How happy Nell was when Arthur proposed to her, how cool they were with Steve at the wedding, and how they teased Shirley about how she kept Theo's secret... And everything is lost just in a moment. The death of her husband is somehow too much, too many tragedies for one family, and even more so for one little girl, who has been haunted by this neck-on-side nightmare all her life. And even gradually losing her mind, she managed to help Luke, withstood his heroin addiction, that's such a strong person, fought to the last, and at the same time did not lose her cordiality and kindness.
I have never seen Victoria Perdetti anywhere before, and I am simply delighted with her performance. It's so true to convey sleep paralysis, the horror of seeing everything, but you can't do it, you can't save a loved one, and you have to just watch him die... not every venerable actor will play like that. I felt it all physically with her.
It's terrible that because she was the girl who screamed "wolf" to her siblings, they didn't hear her call for help, and her father just didn't have time.
And I'm becoming more and more confident that he knows at least 80% of what happened, just protects them from it, or the mother asked for it before she died. His cuckoo was also badly hurt. And Henry Thomas, who plays the younger version, just has the eeriest cold look, Cillian Murphy has a rival in piercing eyes.
If this is all a time loop, and one of them went back in time and wrote that message on the wall, and if Dom is forcing Olivia to kill her children, then this is a fucking twist. And all the little things, every little thing shoots one way or another, like with ropes on a ladder! From Nell's vision, it turns out that Luke will be next, and he will drown (?). I wonder if the theory is true or not.
It was after this episode that the series finally captured my attention, and the plot unfolded very well. I hope they can hold out until the finals.
This series, of all the watched ones, is the most interesting so far
In general, I added the series to myself because of Victoria, after watching "You", she's cool 💕