WATCH ALONG: What Lies Beneath

For the record, I love all the extra Beans we've been getting. Love it even when she's presenting her butthole to the camera like she's taking an unmotivated butt in the moonbeam walk or purring so loudly the microphone picks it up. It's all good.

Madison's mom (the woman with the cat) is also the mom from While You Were Sleeping. I'm also a little sad the Harrison Ford section is wrapping up so soon--he's got a lot of other great movies worth a watch, and he's popular enough that I bet you could stretch it out another whole month without anyone minding.

girl I haven't seen this is over 20 years and I forgot how much I loved it. Where to begin? so much to talk about. Norman, he was always living in his father's shadow. Like he couldn't do anything without his old man being brought up. So he NEEDS to feel important, center of attention...to get out of his fathers shadow. He needed to be his own person who is better than his father. Even Claire mentioned how "sensitive" he was about it, but nah, he was obsessed with it. When he started to get recognition for his work. It fed into his obsession.. So when Madison gave him that attention...well you know what happened there. That argument he had with her was him trying to break it off (the one Jody witnessed). She threatened to go to the Dean and tell Claire. She really did fall in love with him and of course a woman scorn etc. etc. He lost his damn mind and paralyzed her and drowned her in their tub. Hence why she hung around the bathtub a lot (lack of a better phrase) and why he saw her when he tried to take the necklace off. He never cared about Madison or Claire. He only cared about making a name for himself and being his own person (not his father). He was so scared of tarnishing his name (even though it was his own doing smh dummy) which would go back to people saying that his father was better than him. Always leads back to the father being better than him. Madison was a vengeful spirit. She needed Claire to remember the truth (the affair) and to remember the night of her accident. She wasn't trying to hurt her in any way. Her goal was to expose Norman. She probably would've been happy with him going to prison, but poetic justice entered the chat on that one. Plus, obviously she knew if he found out Claire knew the truth he would kill her too. He died in the same river/lake that she did. Yes, she cheated with a married man, but doesn't mean she deserved to be murdered. She was murdered because of Norman's obsession. His own obsession was his downfall of his life, and finally his death sentence. Do I think he was a narcissist? No. His obsession with being better than his father and out of his shadow was the cause of it. I think if people would have stopped bringing his father up in comparison to him or reminding him (basically) that he will never be as great as his father. Which is exactly how he looked at it. He may not have felt unworthy, which lead to him being obsessed. Or maybe he should've gone to therapy like he made his wife do lol. I know someone already mentioned some of what I said above but I wanted to do a somewhat deep dive on Norman. If he wasn't a murdering lying cheating bastard I'd probably would've felt sorry for him, but he was and so I don't. Still love Harrison Ford though lmao.

I am so happy you watched this because I absolutely love it and there aren't enough reactions for it and to me that's a shame because it is such a fun thriller and there are quite a few very well done jump scares and a great mystery to solve. There's also a lot of fun and impression shots, like the looking up at her when she is on the floor paralyzed or seeing all the perspectives through the car mirror. The bathtub scene has always stayed with me, that would be terrifying. And I love that everything Madison does in the film is getting Claire to remember, like the constant opening the door, that's where she was standing when she saw them together or the picture breaking all the time and her saying you know when Claire asked her what she wanted. I also really like how involved Madison gets and is always protecting Claire and her smile at the end is very satisfying, she finally got her revenge. She was no innocent angel, but she did not deserve to die like that and keep in mind how Norman tried to kill Claire is how he killed Madison and then he took her and her car out to the bridge. She definitely did come to the house, threatened to tell Claire and the Dean and he snapped. And also to clarify, Norman was not Katelyn's father, Claire had her with her first husband Michael. And that line he said about how Claire's death would bring them closer together was always so creepy and unnerving to me. He was literally going to do the same thing to Katelyn that he had done to Claire for the past year, be the devoted father/husband. And also, if you notice with the very last shot of the film is Madison's face in the snow. The ending is also bittersweet with her going to grave, because Madison did cheat with her husband and again was not innocent by any means but she also saved her life and helped her realize the truth and they did share a connection. And last, a fun fact about this movie Robert Zemeckis, the director also directed films like Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Death Becomes Her and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. And while waiting for Tom Hanks to lose the weight in Cast Away filmed this movie. They did that first half with him heavier first and waited about 6 months and during that time made this one.

A couple of fun facts: Someone else on one of the other posts referenced it partially, but this was directed by Robert Zemeckis, who also directed some movies you might've heard of: Back to the Future 1-3, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Also the finished screenplay was written by Clark Gregg. You probably know Clark Gregg better as an actor: he plays SHIELD's Agent Coulson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

This movie is so underrated. It's so so great! Glad it won on the poll. It was really fun to watch you react to it!

"I heard someone say Beans is distracting," she says, as Beans points her butthole directly into the lens.

lol, for the record, I have no complaints of any sort about Beans. That said, Miss Thing, I keep the batteries for my "pleasure devices" (and I ain't talkin' the remotes) separate when they are not in use, so you will never find those to steal from me :) Just so you know.

I WAS SO EXCITED FOR THIS! The way I was so proud of you when you clocked the cell phone only working in the middle of the bridge thing. Loved this so much💕 also another thriller I think you’d love is The Glass House. It came out around the same time.