doubledevour's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Death of parent, Confinement, and Body horror
yourbestamericangirl's review
5.0
rep: all wlw latina cast, lesbian mestiza protags
this is not a horror drama, but rather a lesbian love story. it's really best that you go into this blind. it's just...so good. so so fucking yearning. if you liked catradora, this is just them but both of them are people of color. seriously, the banter and the dynamic past episode 24 will have you shook at how similar they are. here's some of my favorite non spoiler excerpts to persuade you.
this is not a horror drama, but rather a lesbian love story. it's really best that you go into this blind. it's just...so good. so so fucking yearning. if you liked catradora, this is just them but both of them are people of color. seriously, the banter and the dynamic past episode 24 will have you shook at how similar they are. here's some of my favorite non spoiler excerpts to persuade you.
"I love you. It is a thing undiminished by distance, unaltered by impossibility. I love you and love you and love you, just as I am gone and gone and gone. I can’t imagine a version of myself that would not love you."
Anna. Anna with the hair of night, Anna with the pink peony for a mouth. Anna with the harp in her throat. Do you remember our time together? Do you remember how brief it was, how long it lasted, entire seasons crumbling at our feet? Do you remember the influence of all else melting away as you looked at me? You caught in my throat. I am never threatened. I am never frightened. I have faced down death; I have faced down the devil. I almost couldn’t speak through the terror of you. Your face, your voice, your name like a fist in the earth. I thought, This is the girl who will eat my heart. This is the girl come to ruin me like fire.
“They put god in my mouth and i spat him out. nothing gets inside me without my contempt. when they tried again, god was a woman and i was more receptive. you have no idea what i’m saying, do you? here is the whole of it: i have made a religion out of you, anna limon. pure grace, pure favor”
“Dear Lily: my mother taught me many things but she did not teach me this. Where does it come from, the thread that ties us together? Who spun it? What is it composed of, what is its matter? I have half a mind to unpick myself, to find the source; but I won’t.
That day in the field of green-and-golds. You said who are you, where did you come from. I said I came from the hill; I am the girl who does not die. You laughed, and I fell in love with you, there. There: I wrote it down, I turned it into ink and made it something tangible (but you could burn this letter and I would still love you, so it must be something beyond matter). See it here in black and white. I love you, girl from the house on the hill, girl with the hair made of sunbeams. I love you, knot in my heart. I love you, hands on my hands, hands on my ribs, mouth on my mouth. I love you, stone in my shoe. I love only you. Only you. Only ever you.”
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