#and that scene in the doorway of the Sinclair’s house did an excellent job of making him terrifying

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Having seen the entire season now, I can comfortably say that the scene where Erica, the middle school aged child, keeps trying to close the door to her own house after saying her brother isn’t home and Jason, the power tripping, murder-minded, athletic high school senior who is like 2 feet taller and at least 100 lbs (probably more like at least 150 lbs) heavier than her repeatedly refuses to let her? Was far and away the scariest scene of the whole season. The one where Erica is literally fighting for her life against one of Jason’s goons only ranks lower because Genre Savvy(TM) told me she wasn’t actually in danger there, that her peril was just to amp up the tension but she’d be fine because the real focus of the scene was elsewhere — whereas the doorway scene was focused entirely on the two of them and his threatening behaviors, and really felt like a fork in the road between two different directions the story might go, and one of them was significantly darker than the other.