r/FromCircleJerk

I started watching it just 2-3 days before.. and I have already reached s2 and ik the kind of speed with which I am watching I'll complete the show in just few more days but I dont want to😭 i am enjoying it so much and then i also don't have enough patience to wait 1 year for the next season... my whole momentum gets ruined but i am also not able to stop watching though I am trying my level best to only watch 1 episode per day but its just sooo good that somehow I end up watching atleast 2-3 episodes 🥲 ...ik i am bad with waiting it has happened with me before in the case of stranger things and I just don't want to repeat it 🥹

Watching sometimes feels like attending the worlds most dysfunctional group project Every character discovers something important stares dramatically into the distance and then decides Ill tell absolutely no one The monsters somehow seem more organized than the humans and every answer brings three new questions The show stretches every mystery for so long that a five minute conversation somehow becomes an entire season Every episode feels like it is about to reveal something huge and then ends with another vision another creepy smile and another question Instead of solving anything everyone just walks around looking confused At this point escaping the town seems easier than getting two characters to actually share information Its a great show but if dragging things out were an Olympic sport this town would win gold every single time

Hello everyone,

this has now happened to me for the second time. A critical post of mine was deleted by the moderators of the two major From subreddits for flimsy reasons. My suspicion is that for some time now there has been a system in place to delete critical posts in order to please Paramount. Maybe even Paramount employees themselves are behind it. Pretty thin-skinned and over-sensitive in my opinion.

Luckily, this subreddit still exists. Has anyone had similar experiences?

I remember the first 2 seasons being incredibly intriguing. Every aspect of the town invited thought: why does it look like the eighties, why do the talismans work, why is there infinite electricity from the caves? Post season 2 nothing provokes thought. One could think it's because so many things have already been revealed, but in a good mystery box new answers should push the viewer into a spiral of new theories that fit everything together with the new information.

Story walking. A good mystery should feel like a puzzle, you know that there are puzzle pieces that fit and puzzle pieces that don't. Giving a character superpowers, superpowers that were never even foreshadowed, is like pulling the rug from under the viewer's feet. If the show can do that, then anything goes. Maybe Ethan subconsciously conjured the whole place up with his secret powers. Maybe Boyd becomes homelander and defeats MIY.

Nightmares becoming real. This is a one-fits-all solution. If you ever wondered, where all the strange things we've seen come from, wonder no more. Someone was afraid of them and died. You thought all the entities have a unique and interesting place in the lore? Think again. They still might, but the writers gave themselves a get-out-of-jail-free card if they can't think of anything.

Reincarnation. Firstly, it's trite. Secondly, it detaches the mystery FROM the characters. Ever wondered why things happen to the characters they happen to? Maybe the anghooey kids reached out to Tabitha because she is a grieving mother? Maybe Jade sees the hallucinations because he does lots of drugs? No, they are special, they are reincarnations of special people. And being a reincarnation just means you get shitty flashbacks of the previous reincarnations sometimes.

MIY. MIY is a silly prankster who roams the forest freely and can do magical feats. Imagine we didn't see MIY rejuvinate that corpse. We would have to ask ourselves, why did a corpse spring to life? How does it fit into the mystery? Do all unburried corpses do that? And what are the answers to these mysteries? MIY can just do that, and he did that cuz he was bored or smth. MIY is another lame one-fits-all solution.

Ass writing. When the writing is ass, the viewer doesn't have the trust in the writers to believe that the mystery has an exciting solution. I hope Jade and Tabitha's theory that "everyone came here, because they somehow heard the kids call out to them" is false, because the cast of FROMville residents just being random is lame and disregards all the information we learned about them. But with how ass the character writing in this past season of this character focused show has been, I fully expect the writers to have completely lame solutions to the mysteries and to disregard the breadcrumbs they have given the audience.