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Excellent so far! SPOILERS

posted 10 years ago by backofthevan
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Reece Shearsmith is playing this creep in a very suitably creepy way! Very impressive! And everyone else is good as well, as far as I can remember. I'm finding it quite riveting, even though I know the story and know pretty much what is going to happen, so I can only assume I am caught up in it because the story is being told very well.

One thing that rings untrue for me is in the second episode when he shaves his head. There is a big difference between a head that's shiny bald because the hair fell out from chemo and one that is shaved. If his hair had fallen out his scalp would not have the shadow of hair that it has when shaved. It looks obvious that he's shaved his head and that he didn't lose his hair to chemo. Are people (Simone, in this case) so gullible they can't see the forest for the trees (so to speak)? She works in a hospital, FFS. Does she really not notice the difference?

[–] Ithilfaen 10 years ago

I find Shearsmith very bad actually. Honestly if the guy was that bad, I doubt anyone would have fallen for his crap.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

[–] backofthevan 10 years ago

Ithilfaen, he starts out with women showing his fake "charming" self. He makes them feel special or needed in some way. THAT's what they fall for. Of course, if he were a creep from word go nobody would give him five minutes. It's once they're stuck into the relationship that all his creepy controlling behaviour comes out. And then it takes a while for it to sink in that he really is a nasty piece of work. If you are married to someone you don't want to believe the evidence, you make excuses for it, you let things go, try to keep the peace, don't want to think the worst, etc. In the first wife's case, she was dead before she could take action and get away from him. Second wife, pretty much the same thing except she had a family who made an effort to look out for her. Yes, it's hard to believe anyone fell for this psychopath but, as I said in the first post, some women are desperate enough to put up with just about anything, especially if they didn't see it coming in the first place.

[–] jon_vght 10 years ago

Well it DID happen, so never mind what you think

[–] randommovies2002 9 years ago

A lot of cancer patients shave their heads when their hair starts to fall out, and their family members and friends shave theirs too, in a show of support.

[–] kerrymc45 8 years ago

I'm watching this now, and thought the same thing about his head. I also thought that hair was lost in clumps over time and several treatments, and not all at once over the first treatment.