I’ve been having SUCH a good time in the Sinners tag, reading so much interesting and insightful meta!
So here’s my contribution—spoilers ahead.
The thing I can’t stop thinking about is the horror *after* Sinners. Like something truly goddamn awful happened in this community and nobody knows!!! Like 50-60 people just DISAPPEARED overnight and everyone else just has to pick up the pieces???
Sammie knows, but he can’t tell anyone. They probably know he knows something, but like…… there’s just no explanation. No wonder he runs away to Chicago. Yes, blues is his dream but ALSO how could you stay home after that?
Maybe they think the Klan crashed the party and killed everyone? Since the next day someone will find Smoke and all those white Klan corpses there. But WHERE is Stack. Smoke and Stack are always together. And WHERE are the fifty+ other people who were at the party last night! There’s absolutely no trace of them. It’s mind boggling and mystifying and upsetting.
Grace and Bo never go home to Lisa. Annie will surely be missed by all the people who counted on her, for magic and food and being there. Cornbread doesn’t go home to Therise and their baby on the way. Delta Slim was a staple in the community and he’s just gone. Pearline and Mary both don’t go back to their husbands. And repeat that over and over and over for everyone who was there and there’s NO CLUE for where they could have gone.
What a traumatic thing to rip through this community. It’s horrible. And I can’t stop thinking about it.
saw an interview where bo’s actor said that the twins were his best friends…. imagine that your best friends are gone for 7 years and now they’re back and want to have a party and one DIES and then you DIE and then your wife (rightfully) KILLS you again.
ALT
