Official The Third Day Thread

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I don't know if that 12-hour event has broken the suspension of disbelief for me, but it's only four episodes through and already I feel like there's a disconnect between what it's trying to convey and the atmosphere/world it's created, where it now feels less surreal and more temporal.

 

[Jax]

Jude Law on a hot streak.

 

[FlyRy]

I don't get how phones suddenly work on the island in the last 2 eps. but didn't in the first 3...

i really like this show though and i'm not sure why. series finale next.

 

[TheGodling]

I don't get how phones suddenly work on the island in the last 2 eps. but didn't in the first 3...

i really like this show though and i'm not sure why. series finale next.

That was explained, breh. I think it was the Martins or maybe Jess who said it but the island's receiver was down due to preparation activities for the festival.

Didn't care too much about this ep until maybe the final 10-15 minutes. It felt that with the cat out of the bag they went for the most cliché dialogues possible to set up each reveal. Still a good show though.

Also we might need to talk about plotwise Osea is the soul of the world so if bad things happen there the world suffers. The series was filmed in 2019 and but released during a worldwide pandemic.

 

[TheNatureBoy]

The girl Elle was paling around with looked familiar, them remembered she was on The Witcher as the main young girl

I would tend to avoid going places that are special, require a key and my mum and sister aren't allowed to come. But maybe that's just me

Might want to keep kids close to you, with everybody in the town giving off an eerie/weird vibe

 

[Jards]

Wasn’t what I from Dennis Kelly with Utopia being his last project but I fukk with it.

Spoiler

there’s a theory on Reddit that Sam is a descendent of Jack the Ripper who Jess’ daughter was hypothesising was the founder of the island. This is why the son Nathan has violent streaks and the daughter hit her bully in the eye with rock as violence is in their DNA

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I gotta say, the two daughters are exceptional actors. They honestly put Jude and everyone else on the show to shame.

 

[Auger]

Sam is actually cuckoo

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Season finale had some great/horrific imagery

Poor Lu having to fend for herself and witnessing what she did

The closing moments really cranked up the tension - Naomie Harris is a hell of an actor.

The shows are quite different, but I thought of The Leftovers some in just the way that people deal with unbearable grief in different ways

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

This show pump-faked too much, that when it came time to let it go, it only hit the rim. I can't even blame the fact that Kelly didn't write/direct all throughout, because the novelty of the ambiguity faded fast once you realized there wasn't much else there.

 

[obarth]

Lulu was the real MVP

 

[TheGodling]

This show pump-faked too much, that when it came time to let it go, it only hit the rim. I can't even blame the fact that Kelly didn't write/direct all throughout, because the novelty of the ambiguity faded fast once you realized there wasn't much else there.

Yeah, the last two eps were to me.

They kept teasing at this crazy occult stuff but every time it felt like it was about to get there the conflict would just regress to old fashioned farmers being mad at each other. All of the series' narratives and themes ended up feeling undercooked.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

The older daughter is Thandie Newton’s daughter.



Anyway...

I don’t see the point of anything that happened. Those people were crazy.



It was one of those: I have no idea what’s happening, but I can’t stop watching shows.

Same with Lovecraft Country.

 

[obarth]

Yeah, the last two eps were to me.

They kept teasing at this crazy occult stuff but every time it felt like it was about to get there the conflict would just regress to old fashioned farmers being mad at each other. All of the series' narratives and themes ended up feeling undercooked.

Agreed. I wholeheartedly agree with the breh that said this was reminiscent of The Leftovers as far as study of grief, but that show had the fallback of the unexplained being the reason for grief. I feel they built up the cult-esque nature of the island too much to not explain it to some nature. I got the gist, but this is one of the rare times I could have used more explanation or background.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I turned my nose up at the bullshyt The Leftovers pulled, and still can't believe how many folks willingly fell for that okey-doke.

This show suffered where it annulled its own spell, while simultaneously kept trying to tell us how special it was. We didn't need to have any exposition; it just needed to create a narrative where we actually believed it enough to warrant the suspension of disbelief.