@PepperAnn, When I first saw it on the menu, it was late at night and I was scared to watch it. Later I tried to watch from OnDemand but my "option" was to pay AMC for their premium service. So I set up a recording on the DVR saying to record reruns. Episode 1 is rerunning tonight.

 

Oh! I'm liking it. It's not too scary for me. I can handle creepy. All of the characters feel real to me.

That rendition of Here Comes the Sun was beautiful.

The Iowan accent surprises me. I like it. At first I thought it was Bostonian.

Also, I wonder if this was the regular premier. Maybe the earlier availability was for the people who pay the extra AMC fee.

 

Yes! I am so enjoying all of the different character arcs. I appreciated small details, such as the rich mom sensing danger, not just discord, in the home before Vic, and her protective mothering. The adult sees with an adult's eyes. I like that Vic felt so insulted by the college kids that it impaired her ability to see the openness in the boy who sat with her by the riverside, even after their excellent conversation. I hope he is able to win her trust, but he is in college. The every day struggles are real.

I love the connection between father and daughter. He doesn't see the emotional implications in telling his own child never to have children. He makes his final desertion of the family when Vic is sick. That's awful, but their bond has been weathering daily family brokenness.

I am completely won over by that freaky bridge appearing for Vic out of the past. Maggie is a mystery and a joy. It's all shaping up to be a great ride.

 

What made me trust him was the look on his face when she got up saying she was going to get a glass of water. She didn't see his look, but he was really startled and distressed that she was still hurt. I think he is really hoping to get to know her. And I liked that he didn't ridicule her when she described the bridge. When she said he was crazy, he didn't respond with Which one of us is crazy? as he well might have. He just threw out the random thought of time travel. Doesn't matter that we don't know what it was. I give him points that he just listened and didn't make fun of her.

He is the character we can least have a sense of, which is good story telling since Vic does't have a sense of him.

I'm worried about the janitor, enjoying the comic book but having his attention grabbed by the Christmasland advertisement. He isn't a little boy whose youth can be sucked out of him, so I don't know why Christmasland is out to get him, but he is an innocent, vulnerable to evil. Yikes. I'm rooting for him.

 

It's placed in Iowa. I hear a faint accent in several characters once in a while. I would have to pay attention to be able to point it out next time.

Yeah, the little boy's transformation was so well done. First they let his fear inexplicably fade a bit and then a little physical change until he was gradually transformed. I was glad I had already seen the teeth--I wouldn't want to see that for the first time late at night. And the game he was going to learn from the other children in Christmasland--Find a Knife for the Drifter, something like that.

 

Superb show. It has become a must-watch for me. Both the horror element and the everyday life things are spot on.