The Third Day ep2 review, Culture Whisper
It was hard to gauge what people would make of The Third Day, but last week’s episode of Gogglebox summed it up: fear and confusion. One unnerved viewer even said ‘I don’t like this…’ as if she was approaching an abyss, certain danger playing in the dark.
These reactions compliment the immersive experience that writer Dennis Kelly and director Mark Munden want to achieve with theatre company Punchdrunk. Episode two proceeds deeper into its spiky strangeness: ramping up the paranoia, the hallucinations, and the Druidic folklore of Osea Island. Although the plot stumbles into some very familiar folk-horror tropes, it’s impossible to know where you will end up.
