normality

It seems like she’s the one who’s hiding something, but James’ veneer of normality is not quite what it seems.

“My uncle struggled with, I think, feeling what he thought was normality as a gay person,” says Sykes.

Yet despite the emotional pain, the region has been making substantial strides back to normality.

“Over the months, I became acclimated to the normality within his insulated lifestyle,” Crowe writes.

But it only ever feels like homage, not anything organic — Stuckmann doesn’t have his mentor’s storytelling smarts, nor his flair for the underpinnings of normality that ground horror.