“The Flight Attendant” is full of traps.
There are literal traps, of course — this is the series that gave Michelle Gomez (here playing hardened killer Miranda Croft) a switchblade and let her loose on Bangkok, New York City, and Rome. But most of the drama takes place inside the head of protagonist Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco), exploring the trauma of waking up next to the newly murdered corpse of a one-night stand named Alex Sokolov (Michel Huisman), as well as the psychological baggage she’s been carrying around for years. This presented production designer Sara K White with a challenge, because while all that sounds good on paper, how do you represent it visually? How do you balance serious issues of grief and internalized trauma with the show’s dark but definitely comedic tone?
The answer lies with The Master of Suspense.
Nods to Hitchcock are all over “The Flight...
There are literal traps, of course — this is the series that gave Michelle Gomez (here playing hardened killer Miranda Croft) a switchblade and let her loose on Bangkok, New York City, and Rome. But most of the drama takes place inside the head of protagonist Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco), exploring the trauma of waking up next to the newly murdered corpse of a one-night stand named Alex Sokolov (Michel Huisman), as well as the psychological baggage she’s been carrying around for years. This presented production designer Sara K White with a challenge, because while all that sounds good on paper, how do you represent it visually? How do you balance serious issues of grief and internalized trauma with the show’s dark but definitely comedic tone?
The answer lies with The Master of Suspense.
Nods to Hitchcock are all over “The Flight...
- 6/25/2021
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
“The Haunting of Hill House” works best when it breaks from the clichéd trappings of the haunted house genre and embraces the innovation needed to bring this story to television. On the one hand, there’s a lot of familiarity about this serialized horror show: It’s set in a humungous 100-year-old mansion filled with creaking floors, self-opening doors, and lots of ghosts; a sprawling cast endures various inexplicable events. But despite these familiar tropes, the able-bodied actors eventually draw out a provocative, emotionally resonant story; moreover, showrunner Mike Flanagan infuses enough fresh tricks to make the overall experience a treat worth savoring through Halloween.
Based on Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel of the same name, the Netflix original series takes place over two time periods: “then” and “now,” as the title cards so simply put it. “Then” is at least a few decades ago, shortly after the Crain family moves...
Based on Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel of the same name, the Netflix original series takes place over two time periods: “then” and “now,” as the title cards so simply put it. “Then” is at least a few decades ago, shortly after the Crain family moves...
- 10/12/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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