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April 9, 2024 7:32 PM - Season 1, Episode 4

Dickie heads to Rome.

Vulture recap

posted by sylvanshine (2 comments total)

I thought this was great. Tom's chuckle on entering the posh Excelsior suite was a *chef's kiss*, followed by the inevitable disappointment. I also enjoyed the epistolary back & forth with Marge, and the every-single-time wrenching tension of "Tom in a bank"
posted by chavenet at 1:19 PM on April 12

I have started counting every scene that shows steps at this stage - and there are very many at this stage!
I love how they made everywhere so empty looking: if Tom walks into a hotel lobby, arrives at a station, chooses to look at a Caravaggio in a church or walks the streets at night - it is pretty much just him.

An interesting technical observation for me is that the entire age of black and white movies came and went without technology which could show true black with either a projector or a TV. Now, if we watch this on something like an OLED display, we can see it in its true inkiness - an ocean depth should look that way no?
posted by rongorongo at 3:53 AM on April 18