making a massive bowl of stir fry to eat while I watch this bc I am s o h y p e d
anything this man is in is an utter delight

plus I loved the audiodrama

and it's g o o d
there's so much more symbolism he couldn't include in just an audio format
the visual foreshadowing of Everything
the dream sequences? So cool I'm halfway through and noticing a few differences but ultimately it's amazing

I really liked the one scene in the audiodrama where Dave (Mark's character) knows the sleeping pills are dangerous and links sleeping to the pandemic all by his lonesome just because someone refers to them as Elephant Tranquilizers
and they didn't do that in the show, they had Linda figure it out without any elephant symbolism

which dampens the effects of Dave's nightmares I feel however they're already changing stuff
I think the name of the monsters in the dream was the Goobles? there was a sickening nightmare sequence in the audiodrama that genuinely put me off my lunch when I listened to it and I dont think they'll use it in the show

It'd genuinely be very difficult to do and still keep the show under an R rating
it was that bad
I listen to horror all the time and it was Awful but I do kinda hope they incorporate the monsters somehow
I think Mark is spinning this with a far more direct link between Dave's dreams and Reality
sorta like direct prophecy? which isn't really how it went down

in the audiodrama
but dang y'all it's good

okay so they cut out a huge subplot
not gonna spoil either the show or the audiodrama bc they're both extremely good but there were two huge issues to deal with that the show kinda just
glanced over
and there wasn't any pit
just another nightmare sequence

still really good though
like genuinely fantastic
the one scene were Dave is running so fast to get his girlfriend to keep from falling asleep and the shot with his poor stumbling self past the graffiti that says "follow your dreams"
what???? that was amazing??? that was so good????

if Mark made smth this great put of the Edge of Sleep even while cutting out half the plot this only has me even more hyped for Iron Lung
that
that's gonna be a masterpiece