Let’s Talk About the Boldly Fatalistic Ending of A Quiet Place: Day One

In one respect, A Quiet Place: Day One plays it safe. Though it transports the series to a new metropolitan location and flashes back to an earlier time, this prequel/spinoff doesn’t stray far from the blueprint of its predecessors, a pair of unusually muted creature features directed by John Krasinski. We get more scenes of characters creeping across a ravaged post-invasion America, eyes wide and mouths tightly shut. We also get more blatantly Spielbergian special effects sequences ...