Eastside nightmare in Easttown
Premiere: 202 1 April 18, ***7 episodes.
Platform: HBO
Theme: plot, suspense, crime, reality
Scoring: Douban 9. 1, IMDb8.6, rotten tomato freshness media 92%, Metacritical 82% 82%.
Watch: Everyone Video
Recommended: ★★★★★★★
The play is directed by Craig Zobel, written by Brad Ingelsby and starring kate winslet and guy pearse. He is good at eschatology and, as always, lives up to expectations.
Craig Drobe directed the first season of American Gods, which was very popular among fans, and the second and third seasons of the famous Watching the Earth. His other masterpieces include westworld and Hunting.
Of course, the most attractive thing is the luxurious cast-Kate Winslet and guy pearse, two acting schools, who finally performed a couple again after Six Chapters of a Floating Life 10 years.
Kate Winslet plays Mel as a police detective. She lives in a small town called "East Side" in Pennsylvania, and her life is disintegrated due to a local disappearance investigation and her son's suicide.
The story takes place in a typical acquaintance society, which is backward, closed and depressed, and drug abuse and alcoholism are very common. In this small town where violence is hidden, everyone has skeletons in his closet.
"East Side" allows the audience to watch and experience from Mel's point of view, which is also the most challenging role in the play, and Kate Winslet got full marks. You will find that she has completely become this middle-aged woman with a local accent and a stubborn temper who never stops solving crimes.
This is a story about solving a mysterious murder, full of ever-changing suspects.
Addiction is the focus of this play. First of all, you will see many characters struggling with drug addiction, including Mel's son Kevin, who was diagnosed with various diseases and drug abuse and finally committed suicide in his twenties. She has always felt guilty about her son's suicide and worried about losing her grandson.
Mel's father and herself suffer from depression. Her father committed suicide when she was 13 years old. Every time I recall it, I am extremely painful and tortured. When encountering problems, I don't want others to bear the burden for myself, so I choose to drink.
This is the characteristic of addiction. People trapped by the demons of the past have passed on how to compromise with sadness from generation to generation, so the suffering continues.
"If you live in such an abandoned place, you must find your own way to stick to it."
For the audience staring at Kate's tired eyes, it is in this sense that Nightmare on the East Side has become more and more attractive-inviting the futile audience to witness what she has done with the futile Mel now, and whether her attempts to save herself will be futile again.
This is a work that the world especially needs at this moment. We are used to seeing misery, pain and meanness, but Mel brings tenderness to all kinds of unbearable people and gives guilty people a second chance.
Gentle people are the most precious.