tv: the fades

The Fades -- is anyone else completely unnerved by this show? It keeps tricking me by being silly and impossible and bordering on mary sue and they make it work when honest to God, it shouldn't manage to do that with some of this stuff.

I'm not sure how to explain the premise because while yeah, it matches the summary, it's just--not like that. I don't know how to describe it; I really, really, really didn't see this coming.

And whoa, Paul and Mac. Jesus, boys. They wear identical pajamas. God. Their love. Which they express verbally. A lot.



You know, the thing is, it keeps throwing me, which a.) is helped that I was unspoiled, but also because b.) the--plot?--is a lie. And it is fucked up and only manages to get moreso. And then it's ridiculous and cute and silly teenagers and then it flashes to giant fucking tubs of really realistic blood and graphically eating dead people. After killing them.

You know, the cool part of this isn't entirely that this could be considered a very original take on zombies, but it's not even zombies, it's this is a fantastic apocalypse and they're more like, IDK, vampires that eat flesh. And they have a plan. It does not end well for humans.



This is kind of awesome. And I'll be honest, the best potential apocalypse ever.

Anyone?

ETA: I have to stop assuming the perky teenage boy moments only last long enough to show some horror. Um, tell me someone else is watching this? I need to discuss.

* Fixed Matt to Mac. I swear it sounds like Matt, but IMDB disagrees.

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[jamjar]

I love Mac and Paul. That scene, where they're deciding who they'd want the story of their life written by? And they're so open about... well, themselves, who they are.

And they do the thing where it's bare-your-soul, smile and show how you're bleeding ("at the moment I think they're fighting over who doesn't get me") and then the next they're ignoring it as a *kindness*, because okay, you've admitted the awful thing that you can't fix, and now you don't want to talk about it, so they won't make you.

And yeah, it's a scary, scary apocalypse with awful, awful things for the Fades-- even though I do want to ask just how sustainable they think this thing is, this whole "I can bring them back if I kill them") because that maths doesn't work forever...

And they answered the questions I had, like "so why are you shooting them and fighting the Fades if, up until episode one, they couldn't touch people, only be hurt by them." And the answer is awful! It's an awful, awful thing!

Seriously, it's just such good horror! And the personal stuff, the grief and the love and the family and the relationships and... oh, John being so angry about his death and his wife's life.