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1) I really think it’s a nice companion piece to the youtube series but you don’t need to have seen it to enjoy. Lots of super fun recognizable references etcccc production wise it was very polished, I didn’t love The Captain’s design at first (he looked kinda muppety?) but it grew on me and was legitimately frightening in the fight scene with Mary

2) the Backrooms recreates things that interact w/ it so I think it’s safe to assume that the workers at an evil corporation that used to make MRI machines but now just “does this” would have lots of office buildings and such for the space to draw from BUT the space also seems to take from your memories and lived experiences etc so at the end even though Clark’s employees didn’t make it, their entire apartment complex and even their missing posters are incorporated (tho that last one could have been something from Clark’s mind knowing that they had died)

3) I’m not sure if this is supposed to be obvious but the Redheaded Lady is supposed to be Clark’s ex right? I think that even though he says that there might be a lady somewhere that looks like her and this is the space’s version of her, he’s living in a house like room with a woman like construction (w/ red hair and multiple faces) that seems to defer to him (stands in the corner and doesn’t react to him scalping her) and takes off screaming/running/clawing the walls at The Captains approach (the movies stated version of Clark.) This is the Backroom’s version of the obviously-more-abusive-marriage-than-Clark-let-on dynamic playing out in its most surreal way possible

4) Phil (AMAZING MARK DUPLASS CAMEO) goes into the Backrooms and explores every day. He’s also shown to have a seemingly happy family dynamic where he watches tv with his wife and kids and has to have a pretty good work life balance and ACCORDING TO HIM has barely learned anything about the Backrooms. If we’re to take him at his word, does that mean that if you have no trauma and a decent level of mental health the Backrooms have nothing to work with? Granted it’s canon (basically) that the space erodes your mental health over time so Phil should be affected similarly to Clark but isn’t.