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HenroTee Mar 18, 2026 +89

It'd be a hard task to pull off the unintended cringe, yet heartfelt vibe. The first game was just lightning in a bottle.

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FireflyNitro Mar 18, 2026 +44

That’s hella cereal

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Noy2222 Mar 19, 2026 +10

Wowzers!

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glasgowgeg Mar 18, 2026 +22

> It'd be a hard task to pull off the unintended cringe, yet heartfelt vibe Ready for the mosh pit, Shaka Brah

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firelights Mar 19, 2026 +5

I’m very curious on how they handle Chloe. I only know people who absolutely LOVE her or who can’t stand her at all. She’s a good character but multiple times throughout the game I was just absolutely done with her shit

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The_Man_of_Steel Mar 19, 2026 +3

Fanatics and nuance don't mix well. You can't be intense about subtleties, everything has to be reduced to a primary colour

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ThomasVivaldi Mar 19, 2026 +1

People wouldn't be happy, but you'd probably have to play it safe and focus on Max as much as possible. Start the series with a Chloe episode then each episode focuses on Max interacting with a different classmate. Bring it back Chloe around episode four with the alternate timeline, five Max introspection episode, six the twist, then seven and eight action finale

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webshellkanucklehead Mar 18, 2026 +12

I think it’ll be possible to capture that in earnest but they will have to commit to making a possibly offputting show hah. I’m not sure it will feel quite as effortless though—part of that charm in the game came from budget restraints and lacking animation

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Maybe_In_Time Mar 19, 2026 +17

You have to commit to the dialogue and in-universe speak, 100%, or it falls apart. You feel it when watching Juno or any Aaron Sorkin project - people simply don't talk like that, but if you keep the audience in it the entire time and stay consistent, it works

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AdorableSobah Mar 19, 2026 +1

Great point, you made me think of Cyberpunk

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storm_walkers Mar 19, 2026 +6

They also have to commit to making it a period piece if they want the slang and meme culture to really translate. The game is set in the era of rage comics, Just Girly Things and epic bacon waffle narwhals. It turns millennial cringe into an art form. People in 2013 may not have talked exactly like they do in the game, but we did say cringe shit and I feel like that time isn’t quite far enough behind us yet to be portrayed as a nostalgic time capsule on mainstream tv. I can see it being updated to modern day, which would be a very different vibe.

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f-ingsteveglansberg Mar 19, 2026 +1

Might be easier than you think. Chloe and Max were millennials. This show is likely gonna be brought to the 2020s so Chloe and Max will now be Gen Z or Gen Alpha. Yeah, maybe they won't Go Ape caring about old movies, but they will share Brianrot memes.

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thethinkasaurus Mar 18, 2026 +28

HELL YES! Karyn Kusama is such an under-appreciated director.

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mortscoot Mar 19, 2026 +5

I love The Invitation. One of my favorite horror movies.

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riegspsych325 Mar 19, 2026 +7

I don’t know what it is about [this shot](https://youtu.be/TeB8qpz6YLU) from Jennifer’s Body, but I love the hell out of it

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ILoveRegenHealth Mar 19, 2026 +1

Rumor was for that shot, the cinematographer ran, he ran so far away

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EndOfTheLine00 Mar 19, 2026 +3

Aeon Flux really fucked her career. Charlize Theron only didn’t get dragged down with her because she saw the writing on the wall once shooting was done and immediately signed on to Arrested Development.

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webshellkanucklehead Mar 18, 2026 +18

Great choice tbh I love Jennifer’s Body

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Fyrefawx Mar 19, 2026 +1

Maybe she can bring in Diablo Cody to help.

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hindiko_alam Mar 19, 2026 +8

Does the audience get to decide the fate of the town at the season finale?

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ILoveRegenHealth Mar 19, 2026 +2

>!Bay, or Bae,!< or Bey (Beyonce fans ending)

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f-ingsteveglansberg Mar 19, 2026 +4

Let's be honest, Bay is the emotional gut wrench ending and the ending the team leaned in to being the 'canonical' ending (even if they won't say so out loud). They are almost certainly going to use that ending. Maybe make an ambiguous nod to a split timeline.

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Enkundae Mar 19, 2026 +1

Bae over Bay, every time.

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Alastor3 Mar 18, 2026 +6

Does that happen a lot finding leads for a role (Max and Chloe for example) before the director?

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r_lucasite Mar 18, 2026 +17

For a TV Show, Executive Producer is usually the more key position, that’s usually what the Show Runner is credited as (in this case Charlie Covell). So it’s more common to hear about casting choices before director choices with TV.

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cronedog Mar 18, 2026 +6

The director of the first eps often set the visual style for the show. It's why shows sometimes get big Hollywood directors for the pilot. They often get no say over casting, writing, etc

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GoldenTriforceLink Mar 18, 2026 +4

Tv show directors are basically closer to cinematographers who give directions. A movie style director is a tv show runner.

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Natural-Hunter-3 Mar 18, 2026 +2

I thought this said *traps* I was like damn bro let her out 😭😭

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JOKER69420XD Mar 18, 2026 -9

They definitely need to work heavily on the dialogue, the general story is good, the vibe and music is incredible but the dialogue, my god. It gave heavy "people in there 30s and 40s trying to write realistic teens" vibes, it didn't work whatsoever.

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Maybe_In_Time Mar 19, 2026 +10

The dialogue and millennial cringe is precisely what makes the game special. If you play games like Deadly Premonition that are also Twin Peaks-inspired, there's just an unexplainable vibe to everything that SHOULDN'T work, but it does

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