Thread by @MollyMcKew

Dad & I tried to watch FX’s new version of A Christmas Carol, and so far it’s AWFUL. As if Bob Cratchet were a moody millennial asking to be CFO his second day on the job, but Bob & Scrooge are trapped in a version of No Exit, talking endlessly about the meaning of things /1

Meanwhile, drunken Marley was left on a hotel roof and is wandering out of purgatory a la The Hangover if it was Shakespearean.

It is impossible to follow his long journey to discover what purgatory even is, and if repentance is even possible.

There’s no music. Very little movement within the sets. Where are all the other characters?

Oh, here’s nephew Fred. There is still no joy. These people are the most miserable people in the world, and Scrooge is some kind of ascetic monk who hates dirt

What is happening? /3

Apparently the plot here is that your own music-less repentance doesn’t matter at all. What matters is the repentance of others.

This is just the worst idea ever. /4

Dad: “Jesus this is awful. It’s staggeringly bad.” /5

Scrooge is now agonizing over his living purgatory of the office and begging to be set free.

I have also begged to be set free and now we are turning on whatever Hallmark Channel Christmas movie where everything will end up ok in the last 20 minutes. /6

Dad: “see, even this has music! Why didn’t that awful Scrooge have music?”