It seems like there is only one more episode to go? Is that right? So I guess we shall learn soon …
One more to go!
This is one of those shows where you watch it first to get the story, then you watch it a second time to get all the nuances you may have missed.
Did anyone catch the building sign when Camille called her editor? When she drove up it said “queso,” but when she drove away it said “English.” I also think Richard was more upset that Camille got naked with John, when she didn’t do it with Richard.
I think the show is doing a good job of showing us how Camille’s mind works, but I’m getting a little confused with all the young girls…they look alike.
I think that she was high on molly during the play and kind of ran off because the fight made her lose it. There was a flashback where she dosed with one of the kids in the play just before going on stage. It’s hard imagine that they’ll be able to wrap it all up with just one episode, but I guess they will.
From what I remember of the book, the show has been planting the seeds all along. So the finale should be a wrap up, tying together all the random flashbacks and Camille’s hallucinations (which is why we have to go back and watch it a second time.)
I watched ep 7 last night and I didn’t realize we were nearly at the end. Partly because I failed to take note of how many episodes are in the season but mostly because I have been so * enrapt* with the visuals and the performances and, having read the book and knowing the outcome, not really thinking about revelation of the secret. Did anyone else who’s seen ep 7 (“Falling”) feel like we went from knowing nothing to having almost everything revealed at once? That may not be accurate at all; I think this show is doing weird things to my brain 
I kind of started to :rolleyes: when Camille took John back to the motel. I thought we were either going to see another scene of her getting a handy or it was going to be some cliche love scene and damn if they didn’t nail it. So pathetic yet oddly sweet at the same time. Not erotic, exactly, but extremely touching (no pun intended). And, omg, when “Dick” walked in and saw Camille in the bed, * I* was mortified for them both. And then he was saying “I don’t think you’re bad” and for an instant you think “it’s gonna be okay” and then WHAM. " . . you’re just a drunken slut!"..
Damn, I’m going to miss this show when it’s over 
Talking about that…why won’t he have sex with Ashley?
Good question; I forgot all about that. We’ve seen that he can’t get it up for her but not sure if there have been any clues as to why. I don’t remember his character from the book or if that particular detail was part of it.
Wow. I am speechless. That was really well done.
Did you watch all the credits? There was a bonus scene in the middle of them.
I have the book on hold through Overdrive. I can’t wait to reread it.
Holy hell. That was one of the best adaptations I’ve seen in a long time.
Holy hell is right. That was twisted as fuck. Amma wasn’t alone in that little blip scene. It looked like there was at least one other, maybe two. Could you tell who they were?
Yeah, I have to rewatch once its available online. Those scenes went by so quick. I think I am going to order the book too.
I’m not rewatching or reading the book. I admire the achievement but I have no interest in revisiting that nightmare.
Wow, that whole show was a gut-punch. I’m not totally sure how well the whole thing really held together (for instance, it was left totally unclear to me quite how the cops knew to show up at Adora’s house? had Camille already called her editor and said “my mom is killing my sister, I’m going in, please come save me”?
I guess we’re meant to assume that Ashley (the cheerleader) was in on the killing, which is why she had a bitten ear and why blood was found in her guest house. (Wouldn’t someone have noticed that she had a bitten ear immediately after a local girl went missing?)
I also really like the speculation that Chief Vickery is Camille’s father… although you’d think that in a town like that, something like that would be absolutely public knowledge. If Camille was born out of wedlock, wouldn’t that be the scandal of the century, still echoing down through time?
That said, it was never less the utterly compelling. All the acting was amazing, in particular the actress who played Amma. She was devastatingly believable as so many different types of character, but also made the transitions between them believable.
At the end of episode 7 Camille makes a panicked call to Curry saying “it was my mother” or something. I assume that got him moving with the cops.
I assume Eve, the neighbor girl, is already a goner too?
I like how they ended it. I can surmise, knowing Camille, she immediately made a call to Richard and turned over the dollhouse. Camille has always been about truth, the hard, painful, unvarnished truth. Amy Adams deserves an Emmy.
What a series. It hit all the right notes, over and over again. I do feel like it could have been stretched out over another couple of episodes. I mentioned this earlier - I was so caught up in the characters and the set up, I lost track of time and didn’t realize how close the series was to concluding and then all of a sudden things got wrapped up. That’s just a very small nit to pick in comparison to how great everything else was.
One thing I wondered about / thought didn’t make sense; at the final dinner, wouldn’t Camille be suspicious of anything Adora tried to feed her? Once the first drink of milk made her sick, she realized what was happening, right? At first I thought she was just going to go along to get more evidence or something but she continued to keep taking it. Was she just that out of it? It seemed a bit of a misstep on the part of the writer but again, small price to pay for all the rest of it.
I was under the impression that it was all intentional on Camille’s part. She took the risk of dying hoping that Anna would call for help and her poisoning would be discovered.
I thought she was faking it in order to distract Adora from Amma, but one of the recaps I read said the milk was poisoned. Either way, someone like Adora would be chomping at the bit to finally “care” for the child who fought her for so long.
I would think Alan would get arrested to. He know what was going on. He even warned Adora off from going to far. She must make heaps of money because he gets nothing from that marriage.
Interesting article on the dollhouse.
Definitely. Alan was a full accomplice. Richard even suspected him of it when they arrested Adora. I don’t see how he could have escaped prosecution.
Maybe I need to rewatch it all (or read the book), but I was let down by the last episode. Early on it looked to be a small town with twisted secrets that ran very deep. The Calhoun days made a hero out of a woman who was raped by many soldiers which seemed to stay around in present day with the football team raping one of the cheerleaders each season. The death of Camille’s sister seemed to be somehow connected to the recent murders, though it was unclear how. The abuse of the women through the rapes seemed to be connected to the murders of the girls.
Then at the end, the death of the sister is unconnected to the recent murders. The murderer comes out of seemingly nowhere with scant explanation. The reason for the murders doesn’t make sense to me either.
I did enjoy the ride, but it left me flat at the end.