Tuesday Terror: No End House (Ep 4)

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Channel Zero: No End House
The Exit (Episode 4)

Interesting episode, yes?

No End House
-It can’t stop people from leaving, so it “hides”. The longer people are inside, the easier it is to convince them to stay. This makes me think that the house is really a conduit for someone or something else.
-The cornfield of abandoned/desperate creatures was an unexpected nice touch.
-With all of these starving things plenty of people have left or died on the house.
-The other creatures know who is human and who is not.
-All the guys in No End House were horrible this week – except Not The Father (for about 10 seconds)

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Seth
-I knew it! Didn’t I tell you he was dirty?
-He is proof people can slip and out of the house. He could have helped them early on.
-How many people has he lured into NEH?
-The people in the cage are “related” to him somehow.

Dylan
-He had no qualms about kidnapping and traumatizing a person he claimed to love.
-In his need to be in control, tying her down that ultimately led to her death.
-What would he have done to Lacey if they had gone back through the house and she still didn’t remember him? Keep her prisoner? Punishing her for not remembering him?
-And for all of his bravado, he was very easily taken out by Not The Father.
-More than his treatment of Lacey, I hate that the others never had a talk about what Dylan was doing. Even if they ultimately decided to go along with his POV, they should have at least considered the situation – especially after the poor woman desperately tried to escape.

Fake JD
-Proved himself utterly useless.
-When Real JD was around, he didn’t have to “do” anything. It’s easy to be a smooth talking, confident guy when you aren’t the one making decisions/facing consequences.
-He even suffered a similar fate as the Real JD.

Jules
-We only have 2 episodes left, can we get a clue to what’s up with Jules? We got a glowing ball and a bathtub…  (Oh and her room 3 was about a teacher.)
-If any passing creature can’t snack on them, who/what is eating Jules’ memories? Does the glowing ball roll on top of the memories and consume them?
-Good on her for saving Margot from the “teacher”.
-She’s so drained and confused that Jules gets to drive when they get out of the house this time.

Margot
-Needs a new boyfriend.
-Good on her for saving Jules from whatever that thing is.
-Leaving the house doesn’t mean leaving daddy issues behind.

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Tuesday Terror: No End House (Ep 3)

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Channel Zero: No End House
Beware the Cannibals (Episode 3)

I think the house gives you what you want – and steals your memories to feed itself/the creatures it manifests.
Margot wants her father. She gets the father duplicate.
J.D. wants to be an Alpha male – he meets his Alpha self…who kills and replaces him. (He didn’t even resist.)
Who knows what Seth or Jules wants….

No End House
-Good to know that the house has physical limits.
-Can I lay out the theory that’s it’s an alien creature that understand human psychology. Maybe it doesn’t need the memories so much but it eats them so that people will be complacent and happy in its world.

Margot
-Finally got with the “This isn’t my dad, what the f*ck is going on” program.
-So, that story about her dad’s suicide may be legit. That just seems like the strangest, hardest way to go. And to do it knowing she would find him? Is it weird that she doesn’t seem angry at him or the situation?
-Unfortunately, it took Not The Father revealing his true self for her to snap out of it. If he hadn’t allowed himself to be caught, how long would she have been willing to ignore his smaller (less dangerous) quirks.

Not The Father
-First, he gave us Little Shop of Horrors. “Feed Me!” Then, he gave us Jack Torrance (The Shining).
-I wonder if the man he killed was a hollow human.
-Allowing himself to be caught. I think No End House would prefer that you willfully enter into the arrangement – you can have what you want, if you feed me – but has no problem forcing the issue.
-Since we didn’t see him die, I wonder if that hole just transports him to another location.

Fake J.D.
-He may be Alpha in attitude but is he any smarter the original? Burning a body in broad daylight?
-Is he acting like original J.D. or, without the original’s imagination, is he devolving into a Beta boy?
-He’s deteriorating physically, that we know for sure…

Jules
-Jules sees the danger with Margot but not herself. Say what you want about dead fathers showing up, giant orbs that call your name and react to your touch aren’t normal either. Focusing on others to avoid our own issues never works out well.
-Oh Jules. It looks like that ball thingy with the people inside is giving you the thrill that you want. So much so that it’s taking your memories. Why have you been lying about the things you see?
-Saying that Margot was the closest thing she had to a sister means that someone or something has eating sis.
-Here’s to hoping you tell the truth before it’s too late.

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Seth
-Knowing that No End House can make a great carbon copy of a person from memory, it’s possible that the Seth who met up with Jules is a fake. The real one could be off someone staring at a family in a cage.
-He was at the house with Jules; perhaps he ate her sister. Also, there’s the convo he had with fake J.D. “You’re falling apart already?” Seth knows something’s not right with JD but hasn’t blown his cover.
-Do people have condoms in alternative horror-house universes? Do they even work?
-Seth being able to ignore memories may be his superpower.

Dylan / Lacey
-Still don’t trust him. He’s willing to terrify and abuse Lacey “for her own good.” Trash.
-He was mad that an ideal husband had thoroughly replaced him. Even if they do escape and her memories of him do come back, I think he will still be resentful.
-Ideal husband went down so easy – this appears to be a flimsy world.
-I’m irritated that Margot, Jules and the gang just accept Dylan’s word

Tuesday Terror: No End House (Ep 2)

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Channel Zero: No End House (Syfy)
Episode 2: Nice Neighborhood
*Spoilers ahead if you don’t watch the show.

This felt slow. As my grandmother would say, “like watching molasses going uphill in the winter time.”

I think the death of JD was supposed to be a big, shocking deal. However, because the character was a selfish, coward – the death was a surprise but it didn’t have the impact that I think the writers wanted.

The weird thing at the very end – that was a shock but then episode was over. Is it strong enough to carry an audience into a third week?

I almost wish this were a two-hour movie – it would tighten up the story.

Then again, it’s only the 2nd episode; maybe I’ll feel differently next week.

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No End House
-So, if each person must traverse the hell of their own creating and “hell” looks just like the suburbs…weren’t they already in a type of hell to begin with?
-How is there a house “for sale” here? Whose memory is this?

Margot
-She had been waiting to use that “You don’t have a Dad” line on Jules – holding it in her back pocket for the right argument. Jules slipped right back in with an uppercut: “You don’t either.” Best exchange of the night. (TeamJules!)
-Grief can definitely lead people to do foolish things but ignoring that you’re in trouble to pretend with Not The Father is a bit much.
-I knew her story about her dad dying accidentally wasn’t the whole story. However, I don’t think this suicide revelation is the complete truth either. -What was the medication even for?

Not The Father
-If one of the NEH creations touches your head, it can bring forth a physical manifestation of someone you remember—and eat it. Okay…
-So, are the neighbors who are “taking out trash” – just getting rid of the corpses of the “people” they’ve eaten.
-Do you erase the person from the memory – will Margot no longer remember her mother? Will she just not remember her mother at the pool? Or will it have no bearing on her memories at all?
-I’m sure that song he played was a dig at Jules.

JD (note imdb calls this character JD, Syfy recaps call him JT.)
*Poor JD – when you are the thing that you regret most… How could he not know that the Alpha version of himself would despise him? This takes self-hate to a different level.
-If I’m reading imdb correctly, the girl with Alpha JD was hollow girl #6. I suppose this is what happens to you after you succumb to the charms of your personal Room 6.

Jules
-I’m betting that Jules was crying over her own problem – not weeping because of her distance from Margot. Not wanting to be around other people’s pain when you are going through your own isn’t the worst sin in the world.
-At least our girl knows better than to eat food prepared by a dead man.
-Wonder how her family will figure into her story…whenever we get around to more than teases.

Backpack Dude/Dylan
-I don’t trust him. If Lacey, the girl at the very beginning of episode 1 was running from the No End House version of him (her memory of him?)—who knocked her to the ground, etc… What does that say about the “real” him?

Seth
-Maybe week 3 he’ll get some shine. For now, we know he won’t abandon the girls. Cool.
-His outfit matches the house though. It would be interesting if he were working with NEH house – showing up the same day it does and slyly getting targeted people to talk about their fears and nightmares. We shall see.