This review may contain spoilers
Dropped due to annoyances
Ok just finished ep 6 and have to drop. Sorry, I just don’t buy that it was that life-altering of a dramatic reveal to find out they were childhood friends. It’s not like they were enemies or had bad blood between families…Also, I just have to know if anyone else was as annoyed as I was by two specific scenes: pooping and dropping phone in toilet (just, why???), and when Gene answered the phone in the middle of brushing his teeth but never spit so he kept talking through a mouthful of toothpaste (the visceral reaction to spit was too much, I physically recoiled the entire scene and processed nothing happening with dialogue).
Was this review helpful to you?
This review may contain spoilers
Perfect storytelling
Beautiful story arc, so much communicated with every gesture and glance. I love the forced proximity trope. Every beat was perfection and every little twist. I love stories that begin in media res, trusting the audience to fill in the background. We get a glimpse of previous cutting scars on his arm when he slices without a flinch, the alcohol in the house is the last remaining connection to his former lover, when he takes the picture frame back he sets it face down, when he wakes up to an empty house and empty cupboard we didn’t need a flashback to know what the character was afraid had happened, the gangster wore a pearl necklace throughout which seemed to hint at his purity as a person, to save him from drowning he threatens his own but later admits he can swim meaning he can stay with him in his struggles and not be lost like the former lover… so much to unpack and I loved it!Was this review helpful to you?
