If I hadn't been looking at the beginning credits of the 1st ep of season 2, I would have been totally confused that there was a completely new cast. I honestly don't know why it's even the same show. I have to assume that the shotgun dude with the crow mask at the end of ep 2 is somehow connected to the animal masks from the first season, or else these are two different shows.

So far it's cool and all, but there's no character as compelling as Rust, the urban setting isn't nearly as amazing as Louisiana, and I'm dubious that the story is going to be anywhere near as engaging as season 1. I'll give it time, but for the time being, season 1 was a mini-series and season 2 is completely unaffiliated, or else I'm just going to ruin it by comparing the two.

Fantabulous. I watched the entire thing in a day, so it really felt like one long movie. "Intense" would be the word I would use if I could only use one.

And I'm actually happy I knew about the weird fiction connection going in, cause I was always in Lovecraft mode while watching it. Rust almost felt like a Lovecraft protagonist after he'd seen something that he wasn't supposed to: broken, nihilistic, and with a crushing sense of his own tiny place in the universe.

The VHS tape was some great weird fiction-style horror as well. Just enough to be creepy, but in the end it tells you nothing and let's your imagination horrify itself.

Even Louisiana was a perfect setting. It had that same kind of desolate, isolated, creepy atmosphere as the kinds of New England ****holes that a Lovecraft story always takes place in.