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(A dubious proposition, and Im speaking from experience.
But when I first saw the tethered doppelgangers, I wasnt just scared, I wasrepulsedby their presence.
Red jumpsuits … gloves … sandals… no brows … Peeles camera milks our first close-up of the tethered, zooming in on their matching outfits and blank stares.
Red makes the introduction, doing her very bestRobert F. Kennedy impression.
That single fingerless glove?
Coveralls?On trend!
except for one thing.
What are these evil doppelgangers wearing as they run around causing a ruckus?Sandals.
Like the beach-resort kind for horny baby boomers.
Not espadrilles, not quite Roman sandals.
They are simply the most frighteningly foul things I have ever seen.
Where could theycome from?
Wouldnt sneakers, ostensibly, be the better shoes for wreaking havoc?
Theres a deeply unsettling quality about this familys uniformity.
The family that prays together stays together, I guess.
But the family that matches has arrived for one purpose: murder.
was intentional, as was the rest of their outfitting.
We really wanted to tap into that kind of cult look, she said.
Sandals are, again, very utilitarian.
You always see acolytes in bible stories, like Jesus, wearing sandals.
Cults tend to live in more pastoral parameters, like in Hawaii or in Costa Rica or in California.
We decided we wanted that cult feeling of giving up everything for the ultimate aim of the group.
It was almost a monastic choice.
Maybe what makes the sandals so horrifying is the suggestion that they were a calculated choice.
It takes me like eight texts to secure a dinner plan.
Sometimes 30 emails to get on the phone with one B-list celebrity.
How many emails did it take the evil tethered to show up to the function in matchingsandals?
kindly dont tell me.
I have no business knowing.
(Kitty survives a little longer because shes Elisabeth Moss, dammit!)
Both the real Wilsons and the tethered Tylers scatter throughout the property.
Thats when Joshs double, Tex, chases after Adelaides husband, down the pathway, toward the dock.
I can deal with the scissors and the stalking, and I can even deal with the bunnies.
Yes, I can stand that too, but barely.
These sandals, however?Not on my watch.
The sandals are, quite terrifyingly, this moviesthing.
