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Teacup Recap: Don’t Trust Anybody

This week’s episodes bring new elements that ratchet up the paranoia to make Teacup even more similar to The Thing.

I get the narrative convenience of just skipping ahead rather than having to depict the chaotic, screaming fallout of last week’s conclusion, but slamming the breaks on the momentum this hard so that everybody has time to calmly talk about their personal drama over a cup of coffee seems unrealistic. The reveal that the threat isn’t just a spray-painted line that means “here be body horror” but also an alien who can possess anybody adds a level of paranoia that makes Teacup even more similar to The Thing. • I said last week that I was underwhelmed by the body horror of Claire’s death and while I stood by that, the prop of her mangled, burst-open frozen corpse was pretty gnarly and we got a good view of it in the daylight.

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