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Notes on - Evil: Rose390

 

Rose390 notes

The mouse dot for the opening is very effective. I’m assuming this is Kristen’s daughters swearing to be 18

I want VR goggles now

That house looks just like a house on our ghost tour. I love how easy it is to signify Halloween in TV terms

Ben grew up in a house like this

Is that true about the 6” screwdriver?

Nice touch how suburban normal everything is except the lock chains. Very sinister.

The rest of the family sometimes all shelters together in a locked room

They keep Eric locked in his room. That’s a fire hazard

Eric gets agitated by seeing the baby

Eric looks creepy

What is it about ‘creepy possessed kid’ that shows find so irresistible?

Why can he not have chairs but can have drawers?

He wanted to bite his sister.  Ok, not creepy at all

Eric: You don’t laugh when you’re hurt

Kristen is a good psychologist

Eric tried to have a kid hit by a train

OK, Eric is a stone cold sociopath

The count to 42 is a specific anime reference, apparently

He’s been like this for 2 years

He tried to poison all the family by putting bleach in the milk

So many prescriptions. And he’s been institutionalized

The federal programs won’t take Eric anymore

So is the implication that Eric is faking being possessed

Ben thinks there’s an environmental

Greenish tint in the daughters hair.  Copper from old piping. And they moved in two years ago

Kristen: Ben, could you check my house for metal corrosion.

Ben: Yeah. Your kids psychos?

Cut to girls screaming

Sheryl got the girls VR goggles so that she can play online poker.

OK, the haunted girl VR game is pretty cool

So, it must have been Eric playing the game in the opening, which implies that the game possessed him

I love how real the girls feel as sisters and how much they talk over each other

I can never keep the girls straight

Oldest Daughter: (under her breath) switch to Bunny Hop

So now we have two competing theories. Copper poisoning in the new house, or got possessed by playing the VR game

Would a kid that age not know what a rosery is? I don’t remember if I did or not

So the kid can hold a blessed rosary

It’s nice how they’re alternating between Kristen’s psych test and David’s holy tests

Are these factors a real test?  Probably

He scored high in grandious and manipulative

Fae it until you make it

True, the family does want to be told that it’s supernatural and can’t be rationally explained. That makes total sense

Eric doesn’t trust Kristen, but seems to have bonded with David. Probably because of the comic books

David’s kind of ‘Dextering’ Eric and giving him a code to pretend to be normal

This is the first time Ben has met the girls. That’s weird in hindsight

Lynn: So, the shower’s broken?

Ben: No, it isn’t. Your mother’s just worried you’re going to turn into psychopaths.

Hey, closed captioning just identified the girls’ names!

Ben the Magnificent!

Ben’s interactions with the daughters is possibly my favorite thing about this show

So Rose390 is another player online

I suppose the girls’ camera feed WOULD let rando strangers see the inside of the house

Saying you’re just a normal girl is pretty much the strongest possible way to indicate that you are not

Ben must already really like Kristen to spend this much time checking her pipes

So, will Ben rat out the girls to Kristen or be their ally?

Just one monster could be a kids game. What Ben saw was fairly innocuous

Ah, the girls fessed up and saved Ben the dilemma. I wonder which way he would have gone.

Ben is making super valid parenting points for not having kids

I get why Kristen is hyper-identifying because of Eric, but Ben’s right about the girls telling her the truth and taking away the VR would only send them to other places

Kristen: Thanks, Ben the Magnificent

Eric’s pretending to be normal is working out so far

Given his history, maybe don’t give Eric open access to the pool

Baby in the pool!

OK, pretending to be normal is clearly not working out for Eric

Child drowning is really traumatic

I really thought that it was going to turn out to be a doll

Can you get an exorcism set up that quickly?

Kristen: Psychology always thinks that there’s more to do, but that family will be dead before we get any answers

The bunnies are terrifying

Rose is claiming that something’s happened to their dad on Everest

Lynn has a healthy level of skepticism

I have a casual dislike to parents that name all their children the same letter. It creeps me out.

OK, we ruled the pipes out as a cause

Damn, the parents totally murdered Eric. The blood clearly was Eric’s

The composition of that three shot was gorgeous

Lovely vertical transition from David praying and Kristen with the girls

We don’t address in this episode whether or not Rose was lying about something having happened to their dad.  Nor do we get closure on what’s going to happen with Rose.  The plot thread remains open.

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