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I never interpreted the events in the show as happening "the next day."
When the husband had a patient, I'd assumed they had been in the house at least several weeks. When the wife said she was pregnant, I assumed it was maybe 2 months later. Just because one scene happens after another scene, it doesn't mean it's necessarily the next day.
Yeah, but there needs to be consistency with time so the viewer knows what is going on. Just skipping weeks at a time, especially in an episode of a TV show is a little odd. An episode usually covers a few days at best, not several months.
Yeah, but there needs to be consistency with time so the viewer knows what is going on. Just skipping weeks at a time, especially in an episode of a TV show is a little odd. An episode usually covers a few days at best, not several months.
Or, at least, they put on the bottom of the screen something like "2 months later...".
I guess maybe because I hardly ever watch fiction TV shows anymore, but mostly movies, the jump in time didn't throw me off. In movies you often skips days or weeks from one scene to the next.
Also, if in one scene they are looking at an empty house and decide to buy it, and in the next scene, the house if full of furniture and mostly decorated, you'd just guess that a few weeks have passed.
I finally watched the pilot just a while ago and unless they make some major leaps in filling in the story properly and set a decent focus instead of jumping all over the place, I don't think I'll be staying with it.
A house that may or may not be a living being that seduces it's occupants into doing bizarre and often deadly things. Those who live are haunted by their own demons while those who die remain attached to the house in some way. Meanwhile the newest victims includes a teen daughter filled with her own angst that instantly takes to the house and all it's macabre attachments. (if they start singing Day-O or Jump in the Line......)
The short backtracking to 1978 was fine. Even the short intro to the family before they moved in was fine. Then they either needed to slow down and let us get to know the family a little more, get to know the house and introduce the new characters better or start with everything in place and then backtrack to show how it got there. It's like they tried so hard to shove so much into one show because they are afraid it won't be kept long enough to truly flush it all out correctly.
Adding in the language, nudity and sex doesn't seem to add in anything of great value for the most part. It comes across as though...hey look what they will let us do, so let's do it! The teen's foul language isn't how we know she has issues, especially since mom basically approves it. The man's nudity isn't the reason he sleep walks, and like previously mentioned isn't all that great to see. I'd rather see Dennis Franz naked butt again than see Dylan's.....lol
Anyway, nothing really new to me, nothing really creepy. I'll give it another show or two before deciding if it's worth my time.
I'm going to say the same pretty much. My hubby and I watched. He loves weird crap (Human Centipede!!!!!!!!!!!!), but he had the same comments as I did: there were major gaps, and they did try to throw tooooooooooooooooooooo much into one episode. Whether it was to try to pull viewers in, or whether it's bad writing, or something they will explain later, it was still too much in one episode. They should have went a little slower with a little more story. We will give it a couple more episodes (DVR'd it last night), but if I'm still as lost in 3 more episodes, we'll write it off.
I really prefer "throwing too much into one episode" over a slow-moving story with unnecessary scenes that do nothing move the story along, but just provide "background" on relationships. Give me a nice pithy hour of TV with lots of stuff that I want to go over & over in my mind a few times, and I'm happy.
Of all the plot points that could possibly bug me from the show, I thought it was weird that in last night's episode they make a point of showing us that the house is alarmed. But then when the copycat trio breaks in the house is not alarmed? And no one thinks to hit the 911 button on the keypad after the phones are stolen?
Doh! I forgot this show was on last night. Does it rerun on another night?
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Does it rerun on another night?
