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Post by theycallmemrfish on Nov 16, 2018 4:07:34 GMT
Basically what would happen should Wes Anderson adapt a well written Bret Easton Ellis novel. It is both funny and truly revolting. I spit my tea out from laughing in one scene... only to be shying away from the TV saying, "no no, please no, oh fuck you, you twisted shit".
Cumberbatch is great as are the supporting players with a big shout-out to Hugo Weaving (and him not getting Emmy nodded is shocking now in retrospect), but I think it's the writing that is the true star of this mini-series. Kudos.
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 16, 2018 19:15:50 GMT
I kinda loved the first ep - great visual verve, use of color, swift editing, writing is wittily morbid (there are laugh out loud moments), and the Melrose character makes sense. He needs to dose himself to keep his buried trauma from surfacing, he's humorously reckless and brash, but the bits that are hinted at about his past (haunting splashes of flashback) make him, eventually, more sad than anything. But in the first ep the ambiguity is so effective in making him a dynamic, interesting character. Cumberbatch (again, in ep1) has never been better. Carrying himself loosely and confidently, but there's edge and self-loathing there, and he's always negotiating with his own madness, in the smart form of voiceover. Those are my ep1 impressions.
Ep2 is awful. It feels different. Saturation full-blast, it even looks different. Performances nothing special. And it goes into really very uncomfortable territory. I wasn't impressed by much of anything from there on and never got back into it. I gotta rewatch that first ep again to see if I was too high on it, but that was something; and I figured a different director must've done the following eps but nope, same director. Note: I haven't read the books.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Nov 16, 2018 19:51:41 GMT
I kinda loved the first ep - great visual verve, use of color, swift editing, writing is wittily morbid (there are laugh out loud moments), and the Melrose character makes sense. He needs to dose himself to keep his buried trauma from surfacing, he's humorously reckless and brash, but the bits that are hinted at about his past (haunting splashes of flashback) make him, eventually, more sad than anything. But in the first ep the ambiguity is so effective in making him a dynamic, interesting character. Cumberbatch (again, in ep1) has never been better. Carrying himself loosely and confidently, but there's edge and self-loathing there, and he's always negotiating with his own madness, in the smart form of voiceover. Those are my ep1 impressions. Ep2 is awful. It feels different. Saturation full-blast, it even looks different. Performances nothing special. And it goes into really very uncomfortable territory. I wasn't impressed by much of anything from there on and never got back into it. I gotta rewatch that first ep again to see if I was too high on it, but that was something; and I figured a different director must've done the following eps but nope, same director. Note: I haven't read the books. Yeah, the second episode is the weakest because it lacks adult Patrick. But for the rest of the series it follows the formula of 90% adult Patrick and 10% flashback. |
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