Pet #01 — Memento
January 6th, 2020
Well, it's certainly not laden with exposition.
Impressions:
On the opposite end of the spectrum, we have No Girls Allowed with something that makes some overtures towards being a psychological thriller/horror and also has a script that doesn't make a lot of sense. It starts out by introducing that psychics exist via a seeminly autistic child actually trapped in his mother's suicidal ideations. That's the last we see of most of those characters though (at least, I think), and we instead spend the next 15 minutes following a petty criminal gofer who stumbles on his buddy having been driven insane somehow, and after failing to blackmail the guy, begins to go insane himself… only to suddenly just have all his memories changed instead with the 'twist reveal' that it was the two twinks he's been living with who did it.
I think it was trying to keep the audience unnerved and uncomfortable with the hard cuts between hallucination and reality. In the moment, it certainly does the job of disorienting you, but looking back, it doesn't feel like things made much sense, particularly when the dude starting going extra nuts. I don't want an explanation as to how the psychic stuff works, but I don't understand what the point of getting him to stick his face in a firecracker was if they were going to stop him. It also seemed like there was some kind of telekinesis involved at some point, but I guess that was also a hallucination? I don't feel like I have any sort of grasp on the rules here is the point I'm attempting to make. The twinks that I believe are the main characters were barely a part of it, and there wasn't any kind of story hook either, so the episode as a whole just feels disorienting. It's what they were going for at least in part, but it's not much of a hook to come back for more.
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The autistic kid is now the blond guy, you can tell by the scar.
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Im interested in the show, mostly because I see no good guys and am wondering were they are going with this psychics for the mob thing.
Don’t know what the point of firecracker was, was he about to set of the gas, was any of it real? if they did stop him it is probably because they did not want him dead. If they did they would have put him in another car instead of giving him a mind wipe