On SiFY. I have watched 3 episodes so far and I find the story very good. It appears to be an effort to capture the audience of ‘Stranger Things’ and I believe that they have succeeded. The story is just 6 episodes long and there will be a new 6 episode store next season.
Is anyone else watching? Look out for the tooth child.
Bob
I know this is several weeks old but I just watched the first 5 episodes (I believe there’s one more in the series?). I was really hoping to find a thread here on it.
While far from perfect I think it’s original and engaging and that tooth child can fuck right off! I can’t decide what I think of the lead actor and I feel there’s going to be a twist: something about the twin - either he never existed or it was the other one who died, though I’m not sure what purpose that would serve) The Candle Cove kids’ show is freaky as hell so they definitely get an A on that score. I’d heard about the creepy pasta thing here though I’ve not read any of it. The description for next season sounds good too (something about "the changing house or something). Has no one else here seen it?
Haven’t seen them, but this does seem like confirmation of the hypothesis that if you move to a place called anything “Cove”, then you deserve what you get.
I think I’m a couple episodes behind, but I’m really enjoying it.
It made me think of a show on a local station when I was kid, “Clubhouse Pow!”, and I found this actually pretty awesome video about it:
Just forced myself through the whole thing (thank you, dear OCD compulsion to finish anything I’ve started watching no matter what). Hated it. Hated every second of it. I’m honestly insulted by this tripe.
Candle Cove is without a doubt my favorite creepypasta. Maybe my favorite horror short story period. This show isn’t it. this is a show that takes the script of a bad, unoriginal horror movie, pads it with a ridiculous amount of random “so creeeepy” imagery and dumb as hell “it was all a dream or an hallucination” scenes and every once in a while there’s a few completely superfluous seconds making reference to Candle Cove. And this very small amount of actual storytelling is stretched painfully into six hours in the most disjointed way possible.
Sorry to vent.
Here’s a link to the original story, in case anyone hasn’t read it yet Candle Cove | Creepypasta Wiki | Fandom - still gives me a chill.
I certainly didn’t feel that strongly about it and I grok what you’re saying but for me the show was successful at eliciting a certain mood. It was very deliberately paced (some might say “SLOW”) and it was pretty bold in its refusal to fill quiet space with a bunch of unnecessary musical cues. It had some quirky performances and set pieces to add just enough weirdness to be unsettling if not ever particularly scary. Overall, it may not be something I have any desire to re-watch but I enjoyed it for what it was.
This season was okay enough for me to be interested in next season. It dragged a bit for me all over the place, but overall I was entertained.
Will next season be a completely different story?
I watched the first episode of Channel Zero Candle Cove and was very underwhelmed. It went very slow, was confusing with all the flashbacks and hallucinations and the protagonist Mile was flat, grey and so uninvolved.
However since there were only six episodes (so just five more) I stuck with it. The second episode was a bit better but could hardly have been worse.
By episodes three and four I felt the show was starting to get interesting although the narrative still seemed all over the place. However at least the pace had picked up.
The final two episodes raced along and - I was very pleasantly surprised - by the end the show actually seemed (to me anyway) to either explain or justified most of what had happened in all the previous episodes.
In other words there was a reason for the slow start, a reason Mike was so disengaged and there was ‘plot’ in all the flashbacks.
I don’t think it was a true, all time, classic show. But bearing in mind it was a pretty low budget show I think it deserves watching. For me watching in its entirety meant the ending actually improved the beginning.
All in my opinion of course. I could explain more but that would involve spoilers.
As reference points I felt it was drastically better than Under The Dome (from Stephen King while Channel Zero had a Stephen King Vibe) or Slasher (another TV story limited to a single season.)
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