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Rule of rose final6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() So she was the orchestrator of the cult of Red Rose and presumably how this was monetised on the Dark Web. Never has the phrase “I want to be a dickhead” been uttered with such foreboding and induced such primal fear. ![]() The Gardener is played by Harrie Hayes who in real life is an entirely non-sinister looking woman but in Red Rose she manages to be terrifying. ![]() Which actually is all part of her plan but again, more on that in a bit. She’s the one that kidnaps Noah, and then later “helps” the dickheads by telling Noah the address of where to find Rick. In fact the Gardener is the incredibly creepy woman in the I Heart BLTN t-shirt. It turns out the Gardener is not the bald headed chap who Wren beats to death. Perhaps it was the gentleman named ‘P1gfuck3r’ (Gary Fannin) who did it? He’s one of the would-be attackers trying to harm Wren that Jaya (Ashna Rabheru) manages to frighten off with a threat to go public about his identity. It’s going to have been one of these ‘players’ who went round and actually murdered Roch when it became apparent she wasn’t going to do it herself. It would appear that people pay a lot of money (there’s an oblique reference to this) to watch teenagers kill themselves, or even to get involved in person in goading and even violence. We learn that Red Rose is also a website accessible through the Dark Web. What’s going on with the Red Rose network?īy the end of the show Red Rose goes from creepy Ringu-esque chills to grim Hostel-esque torture. The Gardener? Unlikely actually, as we learn that Red Rose is part of a wider network. There is video footage of someone breaking in and murdering Roch. In the final episode of Red Rose we have hard proof that Wren is right. But her best mate Wren (Amelia Clarkson) knows she wouldn’t have done that (because Roch’s mum took her own life leaving the family devastated). When she is found drowned in the bath suicide is blamed. What happened to Roch?ĭriven increasingly mad by Red Rose and ostracized from her friendship group because of the app messing with her messages and social media account Rochelle (Isis Hainsworth) is cut off and desperate, and thinking the app is supernatural and possibly connected to her dead mother she tries to exorcise it. Instead of helping Jacob the Gardener uses the app to frighten and torture Alyssa into jumping off a roof while the other Red Rose users laugh and jeer. Rather than letting it go at that point he is tempted by another user called the Gardener to allow him (although it’s actually a her, more on that later) to have admin rights so he can get closer to Alyssa. The two become friends (totally on dodgy pretences) but Jacob tells her he likes her and she says she doesn’t feel the same. The idea would be that the app would find out everything about Alyssa so that Jacob could get an in. He built it to attempt to super-creepily woo fellow student Alyssa (Robyn Cara). Incel-adjacent tech nerd Jacob (Charlie Hiscock) did. ![]() Red Rose is man made and woman controlled. It’s not 100% clear how the app managed to make it look like Rochelle’s mum was with her or like Rochelle was reaching out to Wren from beyond the grave, we’re just going to say “technology” and leave it at that. Let’s break down the big questions posed by that ending. Over eight episodes the mystery of Red Rose slowly unfolds with some big old twist right up to the conclusion. Created by Michael and Paul Clarkson who have horror pedigree as producers on The Haunting of Bly Manor, the show features a strong ensemble cast of scrappy Northerners who call their collective group ‘the dickheads’. Is it supernatural? Who’s behind it? Why? And who will it strike next? This Bolton-set chiller is refreshingly funny at the same time as being super dark. As if the internet wasn’t scary enough already, in Red Rose a sinister app appears to drive teenagers to commit suicide. Teen horror Red Rose arrived on BBC Three this week to ruin the sacred relationship between a youth and their phone. ![]()
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