They finally catch up to Claude and then everyone has to go run ****ing errands.

Exciting episode after a few weeks of getting stale.

It has followed every other victim, hasn't it?

He followed Terry from Ohio to Georgia, and killed the kid when Terry went to that conference.

I think following is part of the whole scheme by El Cucuy in order to put the blame on him. What if it never followed Terry Maitland back to Georgia? It would be kind of hard to pin the murder on him if he was half way across the country when it happens.

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I don't know, this was the first episode that really made me roll my eyes. I can't put my finger on why, exactly, but the pacing was off, the gang-going-after-the-monster vibe felt weird, and whoever wrote this episode has clearly never been to the south, as the dialogue/colloquialisms were so bad and cliche. Also, whatever mystery was left has all but evaporated by now. I do like the adults-coming-together-to-kill-"It" vibe at the end, and I'm still interested to see where these final two episodes go, but man, that was such an odd episode all around.

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Agreed, it just felt off to me as well. Like they had everything laid out for the beginning through the middle, they have the ending laid out, but maybe they couldn't work out this part of the story...which is troubling. The main thing I had an issue with is with Terry they had him on video, and witnesses at the time of the murder...but it didn't matter. So they have multiple cops with Claude at night, all of which are sleeping, they couldn't even say faithfully that they were with him every minute, they didn't take turns just staying in the room with him throughout the night. It would make way more sense if he stayed locked up and there were people in the room with him every minute, and a camera running. Nope, lets get him out of jail and we'll all just hang out, and sleep...how are all these people sleeping while battling the embodiment of evil and they have a key piece of their puzzle?

To me it would have made way more sense if things were starting to fall apart, the stress getting to each of the characters in different ways with the exception of Ralph. If he was buying in when they were going the other way it would be more interesting to me. If something happened or was discovered that didn't align with their hypothesis it would cause fracture and doubt heading into the last couple of episodes when everyone needs to be aligned. That conflict would be a lot more interesting than what they did in episode 8.

I will say though the sounds that were being made while the entity was eating...bone chilling, like what in the absolute f is making that sound?

When he threw the piece of flesh at Jack, it was a shocking example of the pure evil of El Cuco.

I was blown away the whole episode and thoroughly entertained.

I also thought the monster was like... influencing Claude. (for lack of a better word.)

Like he didn't have any desire to leave town until after he got scratched, but then he started not being able to sleep and left town to go see his brother or whatever.

I kind of figured it didn't like killing in the same place twice so it sort of haunted Claude until he left town and then followed.

Wouldn't it have been stupider writing to have them keep him in jail for no reason?

Also, I'm imagining the local cops there at the end going "wtf, would someone please tell us wtf is going on?" when Holly and Ralph are staring at each other

I think that it would've made it evident he killed the kid afterwards. But he still needs to be able to sneak away from everyone to murder him.

It was addressed, but it would still make more sense if they at least showed us that one of the people was keeping an eye on him at all times. Sleeping in shifts outside his room or something. Or even just like set up a camera or something.

As some people have pointed out, he could have walked out of the back door of the house or something and nobody would have even been awake to see it, kind of defeating the whole point.