Just finished fifth hour. Some strong Steadicam operating here.
Interesting longform format and remarkable how this presentation--of what we used to more commonly call a miniseries--has become so much more commonplace in today's television.
Arquette's (much deserved) awards buzz brought this project to my attention that I almost surely would have otherwise missed until years later. But there are a couple of other perfs here that deserve mention/attention. Eric Lange's portrayal of Arquette's character's husband Lyle. Gotta go back and grip Narcos and Lost to see him there. And I've never seen Paul Dano quite like this before.
I've seen George Drakoulias' name on many films but his music supervisor contributions here make this my fave thing he's done since co-producing Tom Petty's The Last DJ.
Very unlikely in this market but I'd sure love to see a BD with commentary from Stiller and perhaps one of the credited research consultants for BDT. There's so much that seems implausible about the prisoner/prisoner and prisoner/prison employee interaction. Did Gene Palmer (the David Morse prison guard character) really have that much personal interaction with Richard Matt (BDT's character) . . . because Palmer liked giving Matt's paintings to Palmer's wife? Matt and Sweat pass a helluva lot stuff between the two of them--is that realistic? Matt is shown having sex with Tilly in that back room at one point with the dang door open. Did it really, ahem, go down like that?
Maybe I've watched too many prison pictures depicting "super max" facilities. But that's one of my only issues with this show at this point. Excellent.
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