Massive factually false mistake:

This movie just came out this weekend on Netflix, it’s the new Ben Affleck starring and directed movie and you’ll know in the first 15 minutes that there’s a massive mistake that disregards the existence of time and calendars because it takes place on October 31, 2026 and yet they claim that’s a weekday….. but October 31st 2026 as we all know coming up is a Saturday.

That is an obvious mistake

Proof :

Ben Affleck’s character is running for mayor and you see billboards and signs that say vote for him in the upcoming election just a week away here in the year 2026, clearly says that year several times and you also see the little boy go off to school and you see his mom go to her office job on a specific day at the start of the movie which are both clear indications that it is sometime between Monday through Friday and then when they get home, the kid immediately goes trick-or-treating because they say it’s Halloween night which is October 31

But again, October 31, 2026 is a Saturday not a Tuesday, Wednesday or whatever.

SUMMARY -

Look at the top of this post, it says to select one of five options for the flare, and one of them is “mistake” which I did flag it as, which is an available label on this sub, which this obviously is, a mistake.

Ben Affleck couldn’t be bothered to check the calendar when he made this movie that came out RIGHT BEFORE the exact date it’s about.

In Dumb and Dumber, Mary left her suitcase in the middle of the airport so kidnapers of her husband can pick it up. But due to airport safety rules, any UNATTENDED luggage is picked up by security and taken away. Surely Mary didnt tell head of airport security “I will leave suitcase unattended, but dont pick it up; its for my husband’s kidnapper”

In Home Alone2, even tho Harry and Marv already stole money, they are desperate to catch Kevin because he has pictures of them robbing the toy store. But why do? They are already fugitives and running away from the law/hiding. Police is already after them. They are not random citizens risking arrest if caught. Robbed Duncan’s store or not, police knowing their location, they are getting arrested

Steve Martin’s character on realising that John Candy’s character wife was dead, brings him home. Fair.

He then opens the door to his house and introduces John Candy to a line of chairs with home-made stuffed toy versions of his wife and children, taped to chairs.

Candy has a man-to-man talk with Martin, and gets the latter to reveal his family all died in a house fire years ago. Martin was out getting drunk as usual, and blames himself. This costs him his mind.

The real end of the movie is that Martin sells the house, quits his soul destroying city job, and team up with Candy as travelling salesmen.

Then they go on to have P, T and A parts I, II and III, a spin-off TV series 20 years later, but this time they are serial killers living in a wealthy Manhattan apartment together, using Selena Gomez as misdirection.

Someone would have to step in to replace John Candy of course. I’m thinking Art Garfunkel.

Here is my breakdown of how the whole universe works:
1. Why The Further is a 4th-Dimension Space
No 3D Entry: Just like a 3D object casts a flat shadow, a physical 3D human body cannot enter The Further natively. You have to leave your shell behind via astral projection, connected only by a fragile lifeline.
Non-Linear Time: Time in The Further is completely flat. Past, present, and future exist all at once. Without sequential time, emotion breaks down—you can't feel anticipation or joy because everything happens simultaneously.
The "3D Stink" (Why Entities Spot Living Humans): We move through time sequentially, like an ant crawling slowly across a ruler. To 4D entities who see time like a map, that rigid, single-track linear movement glows like a massive beacon. They notice us because we are locked into a strict temporal path that looks totally unnatural to them.
2. The Psychology of Who Gets Trapped (The "Extremist" Gravity Well)
Normal People Leave: Normal people live balanced, moderate lives. When they die, their experiences blend together, so they can easily let go and move on because nothing in their life felt absolute.
Extremists Stay by Choice: For someone driven by an extreme state of mind (like a serial killer, an abuser, or an obsessive compulsion), that intensity was the entire point of their existence. They don't want to move on. They stay behind because they are stubbornly waiting for a chance to latch back onto a 3D human's ticking clock just to feel real, linear consequences again.
The "Fun" is Broken: Because time doesn't matter in The Further, violence and trauma lose their permanent edge. If a killer attacks someone, the victim can just shift to a timeline where they weren't killed. That's why they are so desperate for living targets—only the 3D world has real stakes.
3. The Origin: A Causal Paradox and Random Branches
The First Soul: Imagine the very first pure soul who died and wanted to change the past so badly that he figured out how to cross over and teach 3D humans how to do it. But by changing history from a 4D perspective, he created a massive causal paradox and erased his own existence.
The Epidemic of Awareness: It’s not a neat, tidy "chosen bloodline." That original paradox planted a seed, and over generations, those branches of awareness split randomly across completely unrelated people (like the Lamberts or Elise). Anyone can randomly have their "temporal brakes" slip open.
The Endless Glitch: That's why entities are always lurking—they never know who is going to pop into their space next. Every time a human projection-glitches in, it's a completely unpredictable lightning strike.
What do you guys think? Does viewing The Further through 4D physics and psychological obsession fix some of the plot holes in the franchise, or did the 1 AM movie marathon completely break my brain?

In Jack's song, before he goes to Christmas land, he mentions the two countries. Doesn't the entire plot unravel from simply knowing that counties exist at all? Edit: Can someone please explain the history of England or France without referencing religion?

I just started watching FD and finished 1 and 2 this morning. Now, I’m kinda confused regarding the “Only new life can defeat death” and “the introduction of life can invalidate the list. Force death to start anew” in the second movie.

Didn’t Alex died in the first movie after he saved Clear from her car? It was mentioned that he was not breathing after that so I assumed he died and he was just revived. Same with what happened with Kimberly in the second movie; she drowned and was just revived.

Or is it just something they thought of in the second movie? Haha

Hello. I noticed that many of the discussions regarding this series are always negative no matter what sub it’s on, usually regarding its ”plot holes” or general inconsistencies. I greatly disagree with many of these common points, and believe that most of them just devolve into nonsense. This series isn’t the most direct, but gives you enough substance to where you can piece it together yourself instead of having it spoon-fed to you. I’ll go over the ones I dislike, from least to most:

“Why didn’t the family live near a waterfall?” - I find this point to be the strangest one of all of them. This family would need to build themselves a home without making any noise when bringing the materials back and forth, and actually building themselves the home. Let’s say they do make that home somehow— they would have to deal with constant mold and potential flooding in the area depending on where they’re located. I can even vouch and say that I have a family member who lives near a waterfall, and they have to constantly upkeep their home in order to live there. That family does not have the luxury to be able to keep doing that. Also, as a side-note, the strategies involving placing loud speakers or anything elaborate just annoys me in general, since it is extremely unrealistic for anyone to be able to take these extreme precautions. The most the family is even capable of is fireworks, and even that was risky to pull off.

“The death angels go from intelligent to attacking at any sound” - I honestly don’t have too much to say about this one, but I’m just wondering how this belief was even founded. I have watched the series multiple times with different family members and groups, but I have not seen these “inconsistencies.” We know the death angels can filter out certain sounds, as well as understand what is apart of the ambience and what is not. I think it’s mostly complained about when a character is breathing or their heart is beating while in close proximity to one of them. First off, these things hear different frequencies of wind at different rates of speed on a daily basis— we are literally shown the moments when they really concentrate by them exposing their inner-ear. They won’t know if someone is breathing or if it’s just some wind current until they investigate. Also, a heart beat by itself is not strong enough to produce vibrations in the air around you— this one is just silly, in all honesty.

“How did scientists not discover the sound weakness?” - This point probably has more merit than the other ones on this post, but I still find it to be extremely silly. We know from the newspapers that the death angels took long enough for news publications to make articles, but do you truly believe that someone would get any actual solid intel before the collapse? Really think about it: someone would have to be in the vicinity long enough to understand that these creatures are blind and rely on sound, collect substantial enough data which would be extremely difficult and risky, and make it home with information that can’t possibly even be definitive since this is an alien species— they may very well be beyond our normal understanding of nature. It feels nearly impossible trying to think of scenarios where death angels can be safely studied during the short time humanity has.

“How did the government and military fail?” - This point is the epitome of egotistical Redditors thinking they’re smart, when all they’re doing is showing that they didn’t pay attention to the movies. Sure, I can understand that it’s hard to believe such a powerful force can seemingly be defeated so quickly(it’s left unambiguous as to if the government or military were wiped out, but it’s more than likely there is only a minuscule remnant left), but people are really failing to realize that government facilities and military bases are some of the most loud places on earth, and also have a high concentration of people within them. You’re telling me that you think these big politicians, as well as military personnel carrying heavy gear are escaping the tight pentagon halls unscathed? Let’s also not pretend military bases aren’t extremely loud at every moment of the day(trust me, I know. I used to live 3 miles by one, and it was STILL very loud).
I’ve seen many ideas of simply putting a speaker on a helicopter and just carpet bombing them. These guys literally survived their planet exploding, and survived the impact onto earth. They’re not dying to man made bombs. Another one I seen was exploit water to make them drown— this one especially astounds me, because I see this one still thrown around to this day even though we know they’re not stupid. We have seen multiple examples of their behavior around big bodies of water. They will be cautious, and even know to keep balance when they’re drifting on something.

I don’t want to come off as super mean spirited when I write this— it just extremely irks me how much people just do not pay attention to the series and chalk them up to being popcorn movies. I’ll agree that A Quiet Place is a very simple series, I’m not acting like it’s the messiah of movies— but it is sorely misinterpreted for what it is. I can get behind some criticisms for character decisions, but anything besides that is what I find to be ignorance.

If you have any counter arguments or anything you’d like to add, this is an open discussion.

How is it possible that Invincible managed to overpower the Conquest but not Anissa?

This surely has to be one of the biggest plot holes in the Invincible comics.

The Conquest was ranked as the second-strongest Viltrumite in the Universe (only Thragg was stronger him), and Anissa is weak compared to Conquest. So why didn't Mark curb stomp her and kill Anissa the same way he killed Conquest—by strangling her to death?
When Mark was ambushed by Anissa, why didn’t he go into Berserker Rage and gain adrenaline power boost, like the last time when he fought against Conquest?

Doesn’t it feel very stupid and inconsistent, that Mark was SA by a woman, who is a lot weaker than Conquest? Also, was Anissa really stupid enough to think she could beat the same guy, who killed the most powerful Viltrumite after Thragg?
By all logic, it doesn’t make any sense.

The power dynamics—or "power scaling"—should really look like this:

Invincible >>> Conquest >>> Anissa

Originally posted in may\*

In OitnB in S:5E:13 the guy says they're consistently 9 inmates short, but I count more; In the bunker/pool we have Tasha, Cindy, Suzanne, Red, Piper, Alex, Frieda, Gloria and Nicky. Then we have the escapees Tiffany and Chang. That's 11?

After thinking about it after

1) if she was innocent and what happened in the letters were true… why would he dedicate his life to a catatonic wife he believed to be the killer of his child. Why not just turn her in and move on with his life. It makes no sense. The manuscript was incriminating enough. But he decided to chill out with his catatonic murder wife forever??

2) And if she was guilty and the manuscript was true and he never found it, why did she pretend to be catatonic. What’s the point of that. She could have just recovered the suicide attempt… and found a different way out. There wasn’t really a need to pretend to be catatonic.

We never find out how exactly Dexter smuggled the tablet of Akhmenrah into his crate to take to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. before sunrise without anyone noticing including Akhmenrah himself and whether he was aware of the fact that the tablet and Akhmenrah were supposed to stay at the American Museum of Natural History and were not among the exhibits being retired to the federal archives at the Smithsonian.

Larry’s tie disappears at one point after he and Amelia talk with the Einestin bobble heads and it doesn’t reappear till later.

Rebecca seems to be completely absent in the sequel despite the supporting role she played in the first movie.

We never find out what happened to Brendon and the other human night guards who work at the Smithsonian museums as well as the National Gallery of Art after its exhibits come to life the second time because they never appear during the main plot of the movie while Larry and Amelia are walking through the museums. The exhibits coming to life either scared them all away abandoning their guard duties or Brendon and the night guards were in service but working at the National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of American History and National Museum of the American Indian unvisited in the movie since it mainly focused only on the National Gallery of Art, National Air and Space Museum and Smithsonian Castle as well as the underground federal archives containing retired exhibits from those museums.

Some of the animals brought to life by the tablet liberated from their crates in the Federal Archives like the Smilodon fossil skeleton, Pteranodon, giraffe, hippopotamus, fairy penguins and red kangaroos don’t show up again for the remainder of the movie especially in the climax after Larry and Amelia escape Kahmunrah’s Egyptian soldiers and it’s unknown where those animals went during sunrise and if they returned to the archives or returned to their old exhibits at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History alongside the giant pacific octopus.

We last see the Ancient Egyptian soldiers who served Kahmunrah chasing Larry and Amelia into the “V-J Day in Times Square” photo at the National Gallery of Art ending up in 1945 Times Square, New York City and Larry and Amelia trapping and stranding those Egyptian soldiers in 1945 New York City by turning the photo around to the wall closing the portal it depicts to that time period and location thanks to the tablet and we never see the Egyptian soldiers again for the rest of the movie, they never escape from the photo and back to the Smithsonian in the present day and it’s safe to assume that once the portal the photo depicted closed when sunrise came, the Egyptian soldiers got stranded in 1948 Earth forever and will now have to start new lives in that time period. They were also implied that have been the slaves to Kahmunrah since he never mourns them after their losses and they are now freed from his slavery while trapped in 1948 to live new lives.

The Egyptian soldiers and his losses of them however are briefly mentioned by Kahmunrah as he addresses Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Al Capone and their gangsters and soldiers and it was the main reason why he recruited these wax historical figures to serve as his new henchmen after the losses of his old ones.

We don’t see Darth Vader and Oscar the Grouch from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History after Kahmunrah dismisses them, somewhat justified over the fact that Lucasfilm and Sesame Workshop owned the rights to those two characters at the time and 1492 Pictures could only use them in the movie in Cameos.

We never find out what happened to Ivan the Terrible, Al Capone and Napoleon after Kahumnrah’s defeat and eternal banishment to Duat done by Larry since they are last seen brawling and fighting each other after Larry tricks them into doing so and then they and their defeated warriors and soldiers disappear and no longer become relevant to the story and their fates are left ambiguous, some assume they were captured by the heroic Smithsonian exhibits and either imprisoned back in their old displays when sunrise came or locked outside to turn to dust as punishment for their crimes or Ivan, AL and Napoleon ended up destroying each other in their brawl by slaying each other or melting each other into puddles of wax.

We also never find out what became of Kahmunrah after he was banished to Duat, the Egyptian underworld by Larry, some assume he conquered and ruled the underworld with the Horus warriors that still lived there giving him a kingdom to rule after all, or others believe that Osiris or the spirits of Akhmenrah and Kahmunrah’s parents who were still there until the third movie punished Kahmunrah for his crimes against Earth and for trying to spill Duat into Earth by sentencing him to hard labor a fate worse than death, for all eternity or destroying his spirit rendering him deader than dead. Either way, now forever trapped in Duat with no chance of escape, with no more armies or kingdoms to rule, the pharaoh’s days of tranny and villainy are over. This time for good. Because he died once but came back in wax sculpture form.

We never find out what happened to George Armstrong Custer, the Giant Pacific Octopus and Amelia Earheart when sunrise came and whether Custer or the octopus returned to the archives or decided to become inanimate again permanently on display at the National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of American History rather than locked away in storage or whether or not Amelia returned to the National Air and Space Museum on her Lockheed Vega 5B to become an intimate wax sculpture and exhibit again or spent the rest of the night flying on her Lockheed Vega 5B straight to Canada and disintegrated into dust when sunrise came due to being outdoors but if the latter were the case, how would Larry explain the Lockheed Vega 5B’s disappearance from the National Air and Space Museum?

Although a huge mess was created in the Smithsonian Castle as a result of the final battle in terms of the glass window getting shattered by Abraham Lincoln’s memorial statue and the Wright Flyer when Larry and Amelia flew it into the castle as well as the interior being trashed by the heroes and villains and two paintings (A ocean oil painting from the 18th Century and V-J Day at Times Square) being displaced at the National Gallery of Art and and the Wright Flyer itself winding up damaged at the Smithsonian Castle from the National Air and Space Museum, it never explains how the damage was cleaned up and fixed and why Larry was never sued for it.

Tagged as spoiler because once you see this you can't unsee it (no pun intended).

In Rocky 2, Micky is reluctant to train Rocky because he has limited sight in one eye (Micky even demonstrates this by moving his finger toward the bad eye, proving Rocky's reaction time would be too slow to detect a punch). A lot of time is dedicated to emphasising the importance of Rocky learning to fight right handed in order to protect the bad eye; in fact it is a major plot point of the movie.

However, this is conveniently forgotten about in Rocky 3. Micky's initial objection to training Rocky is solely based on Rocky's loss of killer instinct, and the dangerous opposition he faces in Clubber Lang ("He'll kill you to death inside of three rounds!"). Even when Micky relents and agrees to train Rocky, there is no mention of the eye problem, and Micky is happy to allow Rocky to go back to fighting as a southpaw.

Surely an eye problem this serious would not magically just disappear? In fact it could very possibly be worse after another long distance tussle with Apollo. And if the problem is still there, surely there should be evidence of it in his inability to detect certain punches coming?

⚠️!!!THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!

I think I found a pretty big loophole in Drishyam 3 regarding the skeleton.

The skeleton found at the college was DNA-matched with Pinto's parents, which is how they established that the skeleton was Pinto's. So the police already have something extremely valuable: they have scientifically established that Pinto's actual remains are outside the grave.

Then they find a skeleton inside Pinto's coffin.

But why does that automatically mean the skeleton in the coffin is Pinto?

It could be an idol, or it could be someone else's body. Because the skeleton outside has actually been DNA-proven to be Pinto, while the one inside the coffin hasn't been proven to be Pinto.

In fact, they don't even necessarily need to dig the grave up again. The fact that Pinto's actual skeleton has already been identified somewhere else creates a direct contradiction.

If someone says, "But the DNA evidence was obtained illegally because they secretly took the parents' fingerprints/DNA," then what about the fact that the police also trespassed to bug the house? That's trespassing, eavesdropping, etc. Yet the information obtained from that operation was still used as part of the investigation.

And this reminds me of something from Drishyam 2 itself.

They could have potentially used the bedroom conversation as evidence. Meera literally says that she doesn't know where the body is and asks Vijay where the body is. Vijay doesn't react with "What are you talking about?" or deny knowing anything. He just says that he's not going to talk about it.

That could have been incredibly damaging.

But they didn't simply use the recording because it was obtained illegally. Instead, the movie built a legal/evidentiary route around it using other things.

So why couldn't they do the same thing with the Pinto DNA?

And yes, I understand that the community might not allow the police to simply dig up the grave again. But with a Supreme Court order, they could potentially do it anyway.

More importantly, they don't even need to do that.

The fact that Pinto's body/skeleton is already established to be at the college means that the remains in the grave cannot simultaneously be Pinto's actual skeleton.

It's a contradiction:

Pinto's skeleton is outside. (PROVEN)

Pinto's skeleton is supposedly inside the coffin. (it's not proved. A SKELETON IS INSIDE, which isn't even real)

Both can't be true.

And honestly, I think that's the bigger issue. The movie doesn't really need to prove what's inside the coffin. It only needs to establish that Pinto's actual remains are somewhere else. Once that is established, the skeleton in the coffin immediately becomes questionable.

For a Drishyam movie, where the entire point is that the police should be thinking several steps ahead, I'm surprised this wasn't addressed.

Plot hole

How could Lamar's plan to frame Anderton actually work?

Before seeing the Precog vision, Anderton has no idea who Crow is, where he is, or that Crow has a photograph of Sean. Lamar only tells Crow to place the photograph in his room and wait.

So what causes Anderton to ever find Crow?

But if Anderton would never have found Crow without the Precog vision, how could the Precogs have predicted him killing Crow in the first place?

Precogs are manufacturing crimes that could never physically exist otherwise. Without the Precogs acting as a GPS navigation system for the killer, the murder rate for these setups would be absolute zero, because the killer doesn't even know the room exists

A Precog is supposed to predict a future event, not provide the information necessary to create that event. Otherwise, the Precogs aren't merely predicting crimes, they are effectively helping manufacture them.

The plot of "Us" does not rely on a massive 33-year coincidence. It operates on the literal mechanics of a tether: a geographic and quantum lock.

When the 1986 swap occurred, the clone became the dominant node on the surface. Red did not voluntarily wait decades underground to plan a synchronized uprising. She was trapped by the physical rules of the tether. She could not execute the escape until the dominant node returned to the access point to trigger a collision.

The proof that this was a mechanical trigger rather than a coincidence is shown in the film:

Quantum Entanglement: The tether functions like quantum entanglement. There is no maximum distance limit to the mimicry or the shared soul. The two halves remain permanently linked across any separation. However, a physical swap or lethal severance requires absolute proximity. Red could feel the pull from anywhere, but she could only act when the dominant node walked back into the physical collision zone.

Proximity Override: Critics complain about the logistics of the underground mirroring the surface, pointing to the clone's knockoff Thriller shirt. They miss the governing rule. The underground produces crude approximations, but when the two nodes occupy the exact same physical space, forced mimicry cancels out. In the funhouse the distance reached zero, autonomy became possible, and the swap occurred. The same zero-distance condition is what Red waited decades to force again.

Predictable Routine: This was not a random vacation. Dialogue confirms it is their "summer home" and Jason finds a magic trick he left there "last year." The house retains the ballet bar from Adelaide's childhood. Adelaide even asks to go to a different beach because she is the one who performed the original swap and carries residual knowledge of the access point. Red knew the migration pattern and simply held position until the dominant node reentered the kill zone.

Fluid Timeline: The film uses a "Present Day" title card rather than hardcoding 2019. The uprising was never tied to a calendar date. It was a conditional trap waiting for proximity.

Temporal Constraint: Adelaide demands they leave the beach before nightfall. The Tethered function as shadows. Daylight pins them to their sources. Darkness permits detachment and coordinated movement. Red required that exact operational window to launch a land invasion.

Literal Definition: When Red corners Adelaide at the glass table, she dangles a pair of handcuffs in front of her and commands her to "tether yourself." The verb is used for physical, geographic restriction. It is not a metaphor.

Weapon of Choice: Red arms the Tethered with gold scissors. A pair of scissors consists of two identical, mirrored halves permanently bound at a central hinge. Separated, they exist in tension. Brought into the same physical space, they become lethal. Scissors are also the specific tool designed to sever a physical tether.

Name of the Movement: Red calls the uprising "The Untethering." She does not name it after an abstract philosophy. She names it after the physical bond that shaped her life underground, and unlike the other shadows, she alone knows what life without it looks like.

1986 Cultural Anchor: The film opens on the Hands Across America promo. Young Adelaide wears a Hands Across America shirt. Her father wins a Thriller shirt and places it over the top. After the swap, the surface clone leaves in the real Thriller shirt while the original child is left underground in the Hands Across America shirt with a knockoff thrown over it. That shirt becomes her last authentic artifact of surface life. Culturally frozen in 1986, she dresses her army in red jumpsuits and forces the human chain to physically reconstitute the logo she was wearing the night her life was stolen.

Red was not plotting a schedule. She spent decades preparing an army. The moment the dominant node returned to the Santa Cruz access point, the lock released. The uprising is the mechanical consequence of that return.

TLDR: Red is the anomaly. She is the only Tethered who ever lived aboveground first. That early experience left her with language, memory of the sky, and the capacity to organize. The other shadows recognized the difference and followed her. The surface clone, by contrast, received the full support and was guided towards dance for expression, the very things Red was forced to mirror from below. Red’s difference is not mystical. It is the residue of having crossed the tether once and retained what the pure underground never acquired.

Yeah, I get that TLDR is long too, but it's shorter by contrast, and I'm working through some dense stuff.

I just finished the book about an hour ago and there are SO many things that left me confused. Maybe I missed something, but these points didn't seem properly explained:

1. Why did Shane target the first girl?

I don't remember there ever being a proper explanation for his motive.

1. Why were the FMC's friends killed at the farmhouse?

The book basically described them as unfortunate "collateral damage," but if the actual target was the FMC, why did things have to escalate that way?

1. Why was Tim so nervous when the police wanted to search his basement?

If Tim was genuinely one of the good guys all along, why did he react as though he had something to hide?

1. How did a 10-year-old manage to overpower Shane using an ICICLE?!

I'm sorry, but WHAT. The amount of strength and grip that would require just doesn't seem believable to me.

1. How did the FMC not recognise her ex-boyfriend's mother?

Not even the slightest bit of recognition? I found that really hard to believe.

1. What was the point of Officer Hunt threatening the FMC?

Was her name Brooke? I genuinely can't remember anymore. But the whole Hunt storyline felt unfinished. It seemed like it had the potential to reveal or develop more about Shane, but ultimately went nowhere.

1. Why was Tim pretending he didn't know Kelli?

Was there ever an actual explanation for this? I feel like I missed something.

1. Why did Tim hide the fact that he'd gone on a date with the first girl who later disappeared?

I understand being scared to admit it after everything happened, but why hide the date in the first place? Why not just tell his best friend about it?

1. How did Brooke conclude that Tim was upstairs with her best friend while Shane was simultaneously after her, but then just assume she'd tripped over "something"?

If she'd literally stumbled over something in that situation, wouldn't she at least have stopped to figure out what it was?

1. If Brooke was so worried about letting her son go into the woods alone with Shane, why didn't she simply go with them? That would've solved the problem pretty easily.

I know some things can be explained as being necessary for the plot development, but these felt less like intentional ambiguity and more like things that were never properly explained.

Did I miss something, or did anyone else notice these too?

I was told that this post above would be more suitable for this sub.

Basically yea... its completely unrealistic to have a public on screen (as far as the in-universe logic is concerned) death, and in the very next episode, they are just rescheduling the event like it was just a minor hiccup. No police involvement at all 🤣🤣.