Rahab75

Up until episode 5 it was indeed very good, the acting and characteristations are still excellent and the production slick. It is only the plot which has become chaotic and confusing, as well as melodramatic, trying way too hard and too manipulatively to make you cry.

Blaming a poor young kid who just passed away prematurely is not a legitimate part of the grief in my eyes. Btw you don't know what I have been through my life, so just back up from your patronisig tone.

I was literally fuming when Kevin kept telling Sandee that it is not her fault. It is bloody well her fault. As well as at horrenodous Monica who chased them into their death and she still blames Shake for what happened instead of taking a good look at the fucking mirror herself. From Ep 6 the creators seem to be more concerned at tricking the audience than paying attention to character development and narrative cohesion.

Yes, it was filmed before tight lockdown. Hence the crowded Manila locations.

Transition the other way around, since this weas filmed before Gameboys.

So there are two cases:
1, The author is a pathological liar who likes playing cat and mouse with his audience. In that case he is sick indeed.
2, He overturns all this in ep 8. If that’s the case, the ending would necessarily be contrived, highly unconvincing and unsatisfactory. It is already a mess, though.

Btw for all its quality, this series has dealt with the issues I have expected from it with much less thoughtfulness than it seemed to promise. It unabashedly tries hard to make you cry. Acting, characterisations and production are still great, but it promised a thoughtful analysis on coming out and prejudice, for instance. It doesn’t deliver that. Irrespectivecof its outcome. The second half is downright melodramatic.

MODC is a different issue because they had an alternative ending originally but the screenwriter woman pushed that tragic one through.

I agree. That is why I am wondering if he lied on purpose.

He explicitly and literally commented “No one dies”.

I still cannot get my head around why the author claimed no one dies if that’t how we end up. Was he deliberately lying? Yet, if they overturn this in the last episode, that would necessarily be very contrived and highly unconvincing.

Well, I have just watched it. I don’t know what to say. The author either lied or the last episode comes up with an unrealistic and weird solution.

Not just Teresa. Many others. And when Sandee tells Kevin, she is gonna visit Ken, he doesn’t seem surprised.

The majority seems to take this at face value while episode 6 was more ambigious than ever, and we still have two more episodes to come.

I have just rewatched the trailer. There is once part when Monica is screeching “Ken has only started lying since he met this Shake guy”. We haven’t heard this before in the epidodes, have we? And it sounds very out of place after the events we have seen. So this is nagging in my mind too.

Vincent A. DeJesus just commented a few days ago under the trailer “Are your theories correct :)”. He is clearly having fun.

In the comment section. Unless he is fishing https://youtu.be/qTBYdkkYzo8

It seems likely, and I would even tend to agree with you, but I cannot get out of my mind what the writer commented the other way, that no one dies. Unless he lied.

Until I have seen episode 6 I was convinced that they are both dead. Wearing the same dresses which they wore at the time of the accident, etc. I have even commented. Not so sure anymore. Especially since two more episodes are awaiting. I guess the script deliberately keep us uncertain, balanced between reality and the world of spirits. My bet is now being in coma, or something.

When Ken woke up in the operating theatre the first person he was looking for, after his mum, was Shake. Something clearly happened afterwards, since everyone started crying. My bet is now he is, or may be both, are in coma. And they probably wake up once Sandee reunited them at the Wishing Tree.