Rewatched after rewatching the original show and: fuck

Will be honest and say I still think the Deer Meadows prologue keeps this from reaching its cruising altitude a little too long but man after the half hour mark, when it's up there, there's nothing like this. Burrows right into the central white hot emotional apocalypse of rape/incest/murder the ABC primetime show sometimes elided or flinched from (not even just in of TV/cinema explicitness - this is a much needed…

Insanely overtuned holy SHIT, if someone says something misogynistic in this prepare to hear it like three more times repeated in voiceover, suspected this was gonna be bad when it’s revealed 2 minutes in that Demi Moore’s aerobics celebrity (?) is named “Elizabeth Sparkle” and had it confirmed five minutes in when she walks through a hallway patterned with the Shining carpet into a bathroom styled like the Shining bathroom (Kubrick-wise the 2001 refs in here are also pretty brutal).…