I do! I like it. Binged all 5 current episodes in a day. Interested to see how they explain the baby and dead cricket

Dead cricket?

The cricket was alive. Then it died. Then she cried. Then it came back alive at end of episode 5.

Lots of things coming back alive it seems.

Enjoying the show, looking forward to the finale, though given that it's been renewed for a second series and there are so many questions to resolve, I don't anticipate that we'll get much by way of a satisfying conclusion!

I just hope it doesn’t go the route of too many mystery boxes, like Lost did.

Agreed, it does seem to be heading that way, but lets see if they manage to resolve at least some of the lingering questions in ep 10.

@catmydogs said:

The cricket was alive. Then it died. Then she cried. Then it came back alive at end of episode 5.

I am sorry for more question buy why are we calling the "surrogate baby" cricket?

we're not, we're talking about the actual cricket. the one she finds, traps under a glass etc.

I'm all for slow-moving mysteries but there was just so much wrong and incredulous with the characters behavior that I had to stop after ep. 3.

Case in point (and a spoiler) - the husband yells "whose baby is it???" as if he didn't know what his baby looked like just 6 weeks ago before it died. So either he knows well it's not his because it looks different (but the viewer is never told this, just to keep up the "mystery" of "what if it is?") or the baby does look like his one in which case why would he be asking this stupid question? The mind boggles...

@globalistas said:

Case in point (and a spoiler) - the husband yells "whose baby is it???"

But this is totally explicable, you've misrepresented what happens. He knows what his baby looks like (and we're told by one of the other characters there's a 'passing resemblance' to Jericho) so it definitely looks similar to Jericho, certainly similar enough to freak him out, but he's also a rational human being and when he sees a real baby in place of the doll, whether or not it looks like Jericho, the rational part of him can only assume that as his baby is dead, it must be someone else's. So it's not a stupid question...

@silverhawkins said:

@globalistas said:

Case in point (and a spoiler) - the husband yells "whose baby is it???"

But this is totally explicable, you've misrepresented what happens. He knows what his baby looks like (and we're told by one of the other characters there's a 'passing resemblance' to Jericho) so it definitely looks similar to Jericho, certainly similar enough to freak him out, but he's also a rational human being and when he sees a real baby in place of the doll, whether or not it looks like Jericho, the rational part of him can only assume that as his baby is dead, it must be someone else's. So it's not a stupid question...

So the guy just assumes the girl somehow managed to find a baby that looks like Jericho and brought it home? And in all seriousness asks her this question? How is that rational at all? The more I think about it, the more contrived and stupid the whole plot becomes.

No, he doesn't 'just assume' it. He's massively disconcerted by it, clearly perturbed and questioning of how it could be possible etc., but his rationality is in conflict with the facts. That's exactly the emotive underpinning of the drama. But I mean, it's not for everyone, that's fine, it doesn't have to be, I just think your particular criticisms are unjustified.

@silverhawkins said:

He's massively disconcerted by it, clearly perturbed and questioning of how it could be possible etc.

But that's the thing - he does NOT seem to be any of those things, to any significant extent. All he does is shouts in the face of the girl for a little bit and then just waits around for his brother in law to show up for a whole day. That's not how anyone would behave in real life about a situation like this.

@yazza-j said:

Keeps me wanting to watch what happens next!!! Its a bit slow.....but thats the style of Shyamalan isnt it?

So about that ending.............what does it all mean? Is Leann and her family ghosts or spirits which make people see what they want to see? Im kinda stumped on this..... Anyone????

I don't think we've been given enough to go on at this stage with predictions.

Having said that, I'm very worried we might see Sion's character being forced into a situation where he experiences gradual, but extreme, deterioration and the only way he thinks he can return to his former self is by getting rid of Jericho, but that's just one potential way forward (and hopefully not the one they choose).