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The Silence

posted 3 years ago by Jennie_Portrait (804)
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I find Jamie Tennyson’s self isolation to be weirdly similar to our quarantine in 2020... But he is not wearing sweatpants and eating Haagen Daz out of the container...

[–] Adamint (144) 3 years ago

At 8 o’ clock in the morning getting ready for a zoom meeting, lol! That ending always gets me. My brother’s girlfriend was watching that episode with us a few years ago and she was so shocked she shouted out at the tv. Haha. Excellent episode!

[–] Jennie_Portrait (804) 3 years ago

Where are you? We are in Manhattan.
The ending of The Silence was so very upsetting. While the Franchot Tone character got his comeuppance, the Jamie character really suffered...

[–] Adamint (144) 3 years ago

I’m in Northern California. We just had some fog for the past couple of days. Oh, absolutely! It’s like a sick joke. I also screened the episode for My ex-girlfriend and she was so shocked that she couldn’t shake the episode off after a few days.

[–] Jennie_Portrait (804) 3 years ago

Yes— it sucks when innocent people suffer. So much of TZ is about bad people getting their just desserts— but I hate when other people get stuck.

[–] strntz (10891) 3 years ago

While the Franchot Tone character got his comeuppance, the Jamie character really suffered...

Great show. At first blush, one would think that Archie got off far easier with just losing his pride while Tennyson lost his ability to speak forever. Giving this more thought, Archie not only got revealed to be a blow-hole, he now has to live with the knowledge that if he wasn't such a dick about Tennyson being a bore (so what?), Tennyson wouldn't have cut his own throat.

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[–] shannongr (187) 3 years ago

Lol! I also saw a similarity to "People are alike all over" with the house cage.

[–] Adamint (144) 3 years ago

shannon and Jennie you two are absolutely right! These two episodes are hard to watch because these are two people who are just people that didn’t mean any harm and then they get these gut wrenching endings.

[–] Jennie_Portrait (804) 3 years ago

With regard to “people are alike all over”— I have imagined a fan fiction ending where the Susan Oliver character liberates the Roddy McDowell character. They go off and live together happily ever after (like the end of “The Cage” episode of Star Trek— they already have Susan Oliver as 1/2 of the couple).

[–] Adam60z (3750) 3 years ago

Did you have your vocal chords severed?

[–] Jennie_Portrait (804) 3 years ago

nope. That was his tragedy. COVID is ours.