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I demand atonement from all involved with this blasphemous show!

posted 3 years ago by joej2923 (3026)
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I was a bit disgusted with this show so I want atonement from the creators and participants of
this mockery and humiliation of the Catholic faith. I orginally wanted crucifixions of them all
but I have decided that they will need to walk 26 miles dragging a large wooden cross on their
back while surviving by drinking water and a sack of communion wafers. I will supervise this affair and whip them all to keep them moving. I might just file a lawsuit since that's more civilized.

They spent most of the first three episodes showing religious sermons. I thought I was watching a religious biopic instead of a horror movie. They could have shown more of the old guy stumbling around the Middle East instead of all the religious sermons. Part of the surprise was that the new priest was the same guy but it was still tedious listening to the sermons and watching people take communion.

I'm not a religious person but I was offended that they took crazy passages from the bible and used them to justify murder and other atrocities. They also had a Muslim sheriff who took a moment to talk about how he was discriminated against and suffered in an intolerant society. The righteous Muslim was surrounded by fanatical Christian aspiring vampires.

It also didn't make sense to burn down all the buildings when daylight will kill vampires instantly. The ending with the dying chick having this lengthy monologue was also annoying. She also was cutting the vampire's wings with a knife while the creature is draining the blood from her neck.

Hamish Linklater reminds me of Anthony Bourdain so he could play him in a biopic. Katy Siegel reminds me of Catherine Bach of Dukes of Hazzard and Katey Sagal of so many great shows.

This show makes me want to cancel Netflix. I gave it a thumbs down and I think it's horrible that they used passages from a religious text to justify evil acts.

[–] pbt (113) 3 years ago

Hamish Linklater does kind of look like Anthony Bourdain. With a slight change in mannerism, he could definitely play him.

This show is going to offend people the way it compares the church to vampires. I'm not a religious person so I didn't have a problem with that, but yeah, many people would. I've noticed in recent bingeable serials where the writers want to send a message that they know is going to be offensive, they hold off on doing it until a later episode where the viewer is already invested in the show and less likely to stop watching instead of being upfront about it.

I liked the show up until the last episode where the story fell apart into a rambling and unstructured mess. It felt like a loose bag of events that the writer left up to the viewer to find meaning and order in, because the writer himself didn't know exactly what he wanted to say. It felt rushed and unpolished, like the writer needed more time to work on it.

I don't think they should have made the monster specifically a vampire. The second you realized the show was about vampires, all the mystery went away, and your mind settled down into an expected trope. It was a let down. Mike Flanagan should have made it a Lovecraftian monster where you didn't know exactly what it was, what it can do, why it was here, and what it wanted. The story would have been a parable about putting unquestioning faith in something that proved to be false and dangerous.

[–] joej2923 (3026) 3 years ago

I actually like vampires so I thought it was cool to see vampire with wings instead of a black cape. I thought it was odd and a little offensive that they passed out Jonestown-style cups of kool-aid to the people who wanted to become vampires. I would have preferred a Jonestown-style cult that was taken over a vampire.

They also needed more of an origin story for the two co-conspirators and I always prefer a vampire/villain that can talk and do evil laughs. The overall message is good in that it advises people to not drink the kool-aid.