#chapelwaite

... I am all for destroying the sun. It is a hateful fireball and wants me dead. But, and this is a very big but, you feed on humans and they kind of need the sun to live.

Not that I've seen you feed any of your pet humans, but I assume you need them alive to feed off them.

Maybe if you were in a time period where UV lighting and hydroponic farming was known and viable this could work.

But you're not.

You're a weird old man in a town that probably burnt a witch not a few years back.

Finally, I have finished my vampire blended family fic! Featuring New England atmosphere, German romanticism, Polynesian myth, and a lot of feelings about families choosing to love each other. Even when some of their members aren't, technically, alive.

I finally finished Chapelwaite.

Light spoilers ahead.

The show is loosely based on Stephen King’s short story “Jerusalem’s Lot” and follows Charles Boone, a widowed sea captain who packs up his kids and moves into his family’s old estate, Chapelwaite, in 1850s Maine. Before long, the Boones are dealing with hostile locals, creepy noises in the walls, old family sins, and something way darker lurking beneath the surface.

Honestly, though? The series never really grabbed me. Sure, the whole dark gothic look works incredibly well. The setting, the costumes, the period details, and the cast all fit the mood perfectly. Visually, there’s not much to complain about, though the image is extremely dark at times. You basically need to sit in a pitch-black room yourself if you want to see anything properly in the night scenes.

And you can really feel that this was stretched from a short story into ten episodes. The newly added family is a nice touch and gives the whole thing more emotional weight. Still, after a while, it starts to drag. To be blunt, some parts are just genuinely boring.

The last two episodes finally pick up the pace a bit. The ending was predictable, but well executed. Adrien Brody, with his heavy, haunted stare as a broken widower who just wants a fresh start with his family, really carries a lot of it.

So no, I didn’t hate it. I just found it painfully slow. Four to six episodes would have been more than enough, in my opinion. But hey, what do I know?

He's finally finished!

I'm super pissed though that I can't get the crease out of the paper, so now he's got that big line through his head. 😭