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WorldWideWig

Switched this off midway through episode 4

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We tried, we really did try, to suspend belief and enjoy the show, but it was so relentlessly stupid and you could drive a bus through the plot holes.

!From the "digging deep in the pockets" to buy the house, talking like they're broke... apart from the spare money they have for country club memberships, ripping out a perfectly good kitchen and replacing marble with butchers block, installing home security and paying for two rooms in a motel for several weeks. !<

!Nora remaining friends with (and taking ridiculous advice from!) Karen after the whole "We have two offers on the table so you have to go way over the asking price" then "There was one other offer from an LLC but you offered more" - I'd never speak to that person again if they flat out admitted that they'd ripped me off like that, but there's Nora listening to her when she says to sell it for 500K less than they spent.!<

!Theodora saying that Dakota is responsible based on a game nickname after saying that John Graff got the same identical letters back in '95 years before Dakota was born - oh, but Andrew Pierce was making it all up and didn't get any letters, he's just cray-cray. And both Theodora and Dean ignoring that the creepy shit started before Dakota was contacted and hired (and might not have been hired at all had Dean been put off by his youth and inexperience shopped around a little more). Also, Dakota was at the motel when some of the shit happened in the house.!<

!"All the previous owners let my adult son play in the dumbwaiter we're so desperately concerned about preserving" and Dean doesn't even ask Andrew Pierce if that's true, or question why Pearl would want a grown adult to fuck about in it if she was so concerned about keeping it intact.!<

!The house is covered in cameras, which are forgotten when it comes to the fake building inspector and the letters being left in the mailbox. Also, Dakota is installing cameras on the front of the house before the wife and kids leave for the motel and still installing stuff weeks later. Does he do one a week or something?!<

I am actually enraged at how nonsensical this show is and looking over the thread titles and other posts, it seems most other people are, too. Please Netflix, no more of this crap. Pay your goddamn writers fairly and get back to making quality products.

Posted Jul 16, 2023, 9:17 PM UTC

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danidisaster•

This all of this! I wanted to love this show so bad with how good the casting looked. I couldn’t even muster the energy to break it down like you did. I can’t believe I wasted time finishing it

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WorldWideWigOP•

Oh, there were so many more!

!Nora standing outside her house smiling serenely around the place like "oh this is so lovely" after moving back from the motel - despite that there had been a recent murder-suicide next door (I've since read up on what happens so I know that isn't the case, but at that stage in the show, Nora doesn't know that). Who would do that? Just one sad/concerned glance over at the neighbour's house would have made the scene make sense.!<

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!Andrew Pierce mentions a tunnel. Dean doesn't even look for it.!<

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!The things that Theodora knows and doesn't know, and the materials she has access to. She can't find out who is behind the LLC but can get her hands on Graff's letters, knows that some things are missing from the evidence box but not what they might be, although they would have been listed on the evidence sheet etc.!<

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And on and on. We were howling out the plot holes and inconsistencies and irrational behaviours by the time we quit. I've disliked shows before and just turned them off but this is the first one I've watched that actually enraged me enough to post about it!

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mmk2117•

Lmao thanks for the laugh

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New_Survey_6335•

Even worse they are still supposed to be making a second season, meanwhile Ratched gets tanked. Somethings just don’t make sense.

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yernotmyrealdad•

Ok yea I thought I was going crazy bc of how irritated I was getting. I’m just abt finished with ep 5 but I’ve had to pause this show so many times to gather myself. the main thing each ep pissing me off is the wife some way or somehow. not saying anything abt her weird interactions with Karen. Still going to lunch with her and being so heavily influenced by her after finding out she got played on the house. Her lollygagging around during a family crisis that keeps escalating, borderline gaslighting dean. Her not having a serious talk with her 16 year old daughter abt the world and guys especially after finding out she was sending half naked pics and basically leaving her hubby out to dry on that. Her trying to have “sexy time” when dean is clearly losing it but when he’s down to clown getting upset when he wants to make security system is good while they have contractors all over and are still actively in a crisis that’s obviously threatened their possible safety. And when things seemingly come to a head and dean finally relents that they should sell, she’s like “whaaaaa, what abt the kids?” Like yea girl, what abt the kids bc it would’ve taken one letter. The uhaul wouldn’t have even been halfway unpacked.

And so many other things but yea mostly the wife

And then the private detective lady. Just choosing a diff person to blame each day; she has access to stuff she shouldn’t but doesn’t have answers that should be in her wheelhouse and no one is calling that out.

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Rondiinfar•

Also, they know where the watcher is entering!!! Just sit down there and lay a freakin trap! Get a drill and punch through the hole! Boarding up your one solid lead is completely asinine. Ugh.

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father2shanes•

The whole thing with nora listening to karen in the first scene when she asked about the info about the other offers. You saw the way karen reacted with the inquiry, and the fact that karen kept pushing to sell and divorce, nora should of pissed off and broke things off with karen, but nope she kept going to her for stupid advice.

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Due_Fox4974•

Hahahahaha just finished watching and THIS. I was screaming this the whole time it was going on 😂😂

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