Their portrayal of the shooting in season 2 was remarkable. No flair or anything. Just the scene with no music and minimal cuts along with realistic police response. This is also a representation of PTSD that speaks volumes of the truth of the matter. Going over the scene in your head, visualizing it all, and hearing the sounds of certain moments.
Part that I loved was the realism of the chaotic radio traffic, everyone figuring out what was happening and supervisors somewhat hopelessly trying to coordinate everything.
Right?? The camera work is amazing, how the camera dips down JUST SLIGHTLY when he walks past the counter by the front door...why? Because that's the spot where one person's blood was splattered very ominously from before.
@@leonidasoneoneseven Yeah I was literally about to point this out the camera work is fucking amazing. The more I learn about this series the more impressed I'm with the fucking filming man. Also later in the library he goes right to the spot where he killed that shooter and the camera pans to the left and shows the table that he headshot'd that blonde girl.
Same, I thought the exterior of the building looked familiar but as soon as they passed the security guard into the camera room I got chills because I knew where they were. So haunting.
Love how none of the students even acknowledge their presence… they all seem so jolly and oblivious… the only two in the room who witnessed the horror, just walk in, and walk out, in full introspection mode. It wouldn’t matter what anyone else in the school could say to them, they were there, and this was a memory for them to take in, or more likely be haunted by, for the rest of their time together as partners. For the rest of their lives, no matter how old they live. Oddly beautiful camaraderie they share remembering this cruelty…
I'm pretty sure the students who lost a friend that day are still scarred by the even. You're not just hearing screaming and shoot, but you also see those who were shot dead by the shooter. That was a heavy episode to take in from beginning to end.
I disagree, you can see when he's walking over to the wall in the library that there are students who are looking at him over their shoulders, even some who point at him. Obviously we don't know who those students are and if they were there (and I'm pretty sure you could actually go frame by frame in the video of the shooting itself and compare it with everyone in the library), but I think some might be pointing him out, but not sure if they would remember that he was the one who killed the shooter.
@@redwall1521 They are likely noticing the officers' tension more than anything else. Unlikely anyone there in the library was there on that day (2years ago). In contrast, most students seem to ignore the officers which is the attitude most people have towards authority unless they themselves are hiding something. The students are used to seeing security now and to them the cops blend in the background like cameras on the wall.
It's fictional, but for the students, this would have been something they would have dealt with long before. Cops would likely have not been back to the school in that long. This would have been a much more vivid memory for the police because of their collected traumas, but for the students this would be a single, large trauma they could construct coping mechanisms around.
I truly felt these moments. We had a mass shooting at a warehouse and I was a responder that was sent in to retrieve a fallen worker. I still to this day never take any of the streets surrounding that building😔
Pretty accurate. I have mad respect for cops, given the absolute trauma and PSTD they get from their job. I live next to a retired cop, and he can’t look me without freezing up. My parents say he accidentally shot a girl my age in a school shooting. She didn’t make it. On some nights I hear him wake up screaming, and my parents also explain that’s his PTSD. This stuff affects you for the rest of your life, cops need more credit.
The scenery is different. What looks to be like an armed officer keeping watch at the front gate he greets them with a smile not knowing they are the reason why this horrible incident was ended. The hall covered with blood and paper is now a normal area with kids walking and chatting. As if the incident never happened. They're shaken. They're worried. They're scarred. What is supposed to be a safe place for kids became a true living nightmare. The screams and shouts for help are replaced with kids laughing, talking, living. The place where the shooter was shot stays the same. It's become a regular wall to the classmates that have learned how to forget. It's a place where a difficult choice was made by a man who knew he was out of options. Some learn how to cope. He wonders if he'll ever forget. This job is hard. The responsibility is overwhelming. The rewards feel like nothing compared to the outcome. This show was to real the whole episode was way to real.
I just saw the episode of the school shooting. And then found this video just now...oof...I don't even know these characters that well yet, but I felt like crying seeing what they had to go through. This series portrayed their emotions and incidents so well...
It's not just that this scene takes place 2 years later, but also that in runtime, it's 2 seasons later. Legitimately a 2 year gap for everyone, the characters, the actors, and the viewers.
This is pretty powerful. A no-nonsense look at the effects that simply being a law enforcement officer can have on a person. It's things like this that make me wish officers received more help - over time, anyone in this profession develops issues. They have to be tough to survive in law enforcement as a career, both mentally and physically, but over time it's things like this that generate cracks in their armor. The longer they serve without good mental health services, the easier it is for the experiences of their career to have a negative effect on themselves and the people they serve. It can, and does, happen to anyone - the only deciding factor is "are they unlucky enough to receive a call that will scar them". With enough time, it is guaranteed to happen. There's no shame in admitting that you are hurt, whether it's a physical scar or a mental one.
Remember, people: if you're trapped in a school with a shooter going rampant, don't expect the cops to come and rescue you. They'll cower outside like they did in Uvalde, TX. You're your own first responders.
This was more than 8 years ago so I may get somethings mixed up but it's one of those memories that will never completely leave. In my Elementary school there was a school shooting but it was a couple years before I attended the place. Only one teacher was killed after refusing to say where she was hiding her class. Edit: The memory was my teacher telling us. I didn't experience the shooting first hand
I got chills after reading the sentence about what the teacher did bc I heard the same thing from my teacher in 6th grade when he told us some info about the shooting
That's so sad. Did your school have memorials or plaques? Did the adults or kids talk about it much? I've always wondered what it's like to be a student years after all the kids who experienced it have moved on.
Powerful. I have a relative who has been in law enforcement for 30 years. You can't simply unplug and go home. While most officers will never deal with anything as traumatic as a school shooting, they regularly have to look at the worst of humanity and see people at their lowest points. I will never forget the time I came home from school and my relative was at my house talking to my parents. He was shaking and looked in shock. He had responded to a call of a suspect in the woods near a local middle school who witnesses thought was carrying a weapon. Sure enough, when he arrived he found the man in the woods carrying a shotgun. He spent several minutes trying to convince the guy to drop the gun and right as the suspect was lifting the barrel to aim at him, his partner was able to tackle the guy from the side and disarm him. He thought that day he was going to have to shoot and kill a random man (and that will mess with anybody). That's just one of the many incidents that I know still haunt him to this day.
My mom's great-uncle was a judge back in 1940's. He had to sentence a person to death by hanging (there are no juries where I am, verdicts are handed down by either one or a panel of judges depending on the case). My mom said he didn't sleep at all for days after he passed the judgement. He was sure the guy was guilty but taking a person's life is the ultimate sentence.
Really speaks to Jared Keeso's acting ability. He has to show that the character is strong yet at the same emotionally vulnerable. Not an easy thing to convey.
Never seen this show except for the school shooting episode. And that is one of the most impressive production pieces I've ever seen. Some genius people at the helm of this show.
The long shot of the shooting. Was and is some of the best camera shooting ever on TV. Actors, writters, camera, sound, direction and lastly, the heart. This month we had a school shooting. I have a couple of friends that were teachers there. You guys nailed this.
Just remember that your feelings, your trauma is valid. I have a lot of... baggage related to 9/11. I always tell myself I shouldn't complain. I only lost one person, and I wasn't even near the towers at the time. My therapist, on the other hand tells me that pts (I refuse to call it a disorder) is what happens when you think you're safe, then you are suddenly very unsafe. It doesn't matter if it's from being attacked, raped, shot, beaten, etc., the effects on our brain is the same. It doesn't make you any less of a person.
I have PTSD, myself. And while I cannot speak for everyone with it, I think this portrays it in a realistic sense. PTSD isn't always rocking back and forth in a fetal position while screaming "THE WAR, THE THINGS WE DID". Mostly it's just this. Silent contemplation and reflection of the events that took place. Maybe you freeze up seeing something that reminds you of the trauma, but it's generally not more than voices and sounds in your head, playing on repeat. What I love is the human side in all of this. That they really made it feel like these two were there. They witnessed all the shit and they came back to see this place, maybe, for the last time before fully coping with their grief and putting a "." on the story. Through both the shooting and the aftermath, they felt real. And as I said, as a person who suffers from PTSD, this spoke to me on a very VERY personal level. Extremely well done and thought-through scene.
The thing is he died in the loneliest part of the library. That empty space echoes with negative energy, he also died surrounded by the knowledge he never attempted to take in, to give himself hope that the future would be brighter. It's a sad situation on both sides because he was also a victim.
If you go that far that you shoot innocent people who did not do any harm - I don't see the shooter as a victim. Weak ass flower, can't deal with whatever problem life throws at him/her and they want to be treated better. So take a gun and shoot innocent people. I get it, if someone gets abused and shoots, kills that person. But people who had zero involvment - this is when I stop seeing them as victims. Psychopaths, and you can be a psycho with 12, 21, 60 - it doesn't matter.
@@Hanna-xu2yv there are people who go through much worse lives but they never ever remotely attempted to shoot up a place. The shooter was a coward and he picked on soft targets that had no chance of fighting back. When confronted by armed cops the shooter simply hid in the corner like a coward until he was exterminated.
Shool shooters are evil scum that deserve to be put down in ways I wouldn't put down animals. Zero sympathy. If they're so troubled why not shoot up a gun show or an army base? Because they're cowards and being shot back at would ruin their fantasy.
The officers in this showered courage but it also shows that they are vulnerable as well. They did a fabulous job. breaks my heart that they go through things like this all the time to try to keep us safe.
Whenever I go back to the places I've dealt with traumatic situations, it's a lot like that. Even years later, you remember the sounds, the smells, the feeling. Part of you will always be there, somewhen else in your mind.
I'm sorry, I never watched the shooting scene or any of this show before today and I just can't get past the fact that one of the cops is Jared Keso. I can't really picture him outside of Letterkenny
Such a good portrayal of PTSD. I have a little bit brought on by my mom’s epilepsy over the years, and this is almost exactly how it is for me. I hear her screaming and seizing, I see and hear her head smacking against the floor during the times I didn’t make it in time to catch her. I will just randomly remember it, and get surges of adrenaline, shortness of breath and it’s like I’m stuck halfway in the memory and halfway in the real world.
May you and your family's struggles be eased for you, especially for the difficulty of having to witness your mother's pain. I'm glad you have moments of reprieve
Yes Columbine survivors when they returned to the school experienced stuff just like this. They could still hear the screams and the gun shots. It was hard for them to step back into the school all those years later.@@ayyylmao101
I watched the school shooting episode yesterday this seems like a pretty good show. I think SWAT had a pretty decent school shooting episode as well last year.
I went to that very high school in montreal for 4 years. When i saw that episode couple of years after i graduated i was speechless and shocked in front of the tv.
I’ve only seen and heard about this show from this clip and the previous one where it all happens and to feel the draining trauma that they carry on their shoulders is saddening. Now I wanna binge the heck out of this show.
Its really sad. The trauma of a call can hurt you just like that. Being a law enforcement officer can put a toll on you mentally and physically. I just wish more agencies had better Mental Health options for their officers. This video shows you what you see on a daily will stay with you for life. You could take years of therapy and still have these attacks.
I've only seen this and the scene it leads from. I absolutely need to find the whole series now. This acting, writing and direction is superb (as was the camerawork in the shooting scene). I almost cried just watching him relive this.
looking at this scene after seeing the previous scene it is eerie that the whole thing from start to finished ended 30 feet from each other, from the hallway to the library. that a 20+ minute bloodbath had us go through almost every room of the entire school. only thing missing was the football field.
Another unbroken shot as they enter the school. I have zero doubt that they even did the shot with the pan around and the students suddenly being there completely practically, just having the actors run into place as the shot panned around. I have only watched School and this scene from this series, but man did the cinematographer know how to paint a scene.
Watching the initial incident was quite the experience, and this really hammers in that those officers will have to live with those memories for the rest of their lives.
ive only watched the school shooting scene then this, but the feeling or lackthereof in the heart of the officer who had to kill the school shooter- a child- is unimaginable
Writers and directors are doing an outstanding research on PTSD and constructing scenes with the place, architecture and the actors. This shows a mature director and a great staff working with production. Outstanding skills depicted here.
Magnets mean nothing in a power outage or fire alarm. Guard is unarmed. The desk glass is bulletproof, not the rest of the school. The illusions of safety, forever marred by the event that made it necessary. School is still in session, but it'll NEVER be the same.
Its so shocking, watching the shooting scene, all that terror, just to see how everyone's recovered, how the world ahs moved on, but for those affected it feels like yesterday, the toll has been taken and it will never be given back.
I've been in a school lockdown before because a active shooter was at my community College. I was scared 😱. I understand the fear of being in a situation like that. All i can say is that its not a experience I ever wanted to be in, so I know its hard not forget that traumatic experience
I've never heard of this show. The school shooting scene showed up on my recommended list yesterday. Best live action police show. I am a canadian so I never been around shootings but it's portrayal feels real.
The original episode is based on a real event that happen at Dawson College in Montreal on September 13, 2006. For some Montrealer's it hit very close to home since the show also takes place in Montreal, although with a fake police precinct.
Of course they do, stuff like that will weigh on you for the rest of your life. It plays on a loop in your mind, there’s no escape from it. They feel guilt that they couldn’t save the kids that were the victims. Those two officers could go to that school 50 years from the time of the shooting and still picture everything as if it just happened.
one thing that's always come to mind while thinking of school shootings is that ... any time i ever went to like. parent teacher conferences with my parents... my parents REALLY needed me to lead them around because THEY really didn't know the layout of the school.... & its understandably highly likely that the people sent in after these shooters are JUST as unfamiliar..... & it always makes me wonder how much more effective they'd be if they were able to navigate the schools with the familiarity that the kids have...
This show seriously needs to make a return It’s too good and has so much potential for more character development, introducing new characters and much more 🔥
Going into the Lion's den after taking down the Lion. Any cop or military going back to their engagement area and seeing them relive it in their heads shows their courage and vulnerability.
After watching this I realized: I put my truck in a ditch after I hit ice on a sharp turn down a back road, and the only thing that kept me from going over the edge of a 20 foot cliff was a tree that was as big around as a soda can. I have no clue how it didn't snap or how it held but it did. I realized that I have never been on that road again even though it was the fasted route. I don't even remember consciously making that decision. Subconscious PTSD maybe? I think I'm going to go drive it and see what happens.
The real tragedy is the world doesnt give you time to process. No matter what, no matter how terrible. The world keeps turning and so many people just expect you to move on with them
Going back to where it happened is so powerful. I'll explain. During the chaos you slow your thinking so much outside stimuli gets dulled. You ignore alot of what happening. When you come back without the chaos. You remember how chaotic it was and how calm it is now. How fast the chaos was like cars on the highway then you realize how slow it was
It's crazy to think, this is almost a weekly occurrence in America. As an Aussie, watching the full 20+ minutes was almost as scary as being one of the officers pursuing. I'd hate to think what it's like to be a student during these moments. Just to be told the next day/week/ however long they give to reopen, to come back to school and continue like nothing has ever happened.
bruh you mother fuckers act like the us is a gun hell hole most of the time that violence happens in the blue States since they wanted to defend the police lol
It's not a weekly occurrence, the situation they show is biyearly at most. With the amount of deaths almost never reaching double digits and certainly never reaching the amount shown in the show. "Mass shootings" happen once a week sure, but a mass shooting is any shooting involving three or more people, so gang related shootings in Chicago qualify.
God bless peace-keeping forces around the globe. Bravest men on the planet. Thank you all who have served, law enforcement, military, national security, God bless you all.
I've not seen the series only the school shooting scene (which was brilliantly done) and this scene so I gotta ask: is that the same actor? If so he looks really difficult from the first clip
There’s no way as an officer that I could’ve returned to that scene. It would have been difficult enough just to have to drive by and look at that school.
