Susan loves the movies, particularly anything with Gary Cooper, who becomes the paradigm for the stability and protection she craves.

Letting audiences hear the director bark for action or following actors from set to set within a soundstage creates a Brechtian distance from the material, the kind of emotional remove that Susan is unable to achieve in her life.

Landscapers is the second HBO project this fall - after the Scenes From a Marriage remake - to integrate behind-the-scenes footage of the production. Is the truth about what happened to Susan’s parents complicated or entirely irrelevant? That’s for viewers to decide, even as Sharpe frequently reminds us that you shouldn’t be looking for such answers in a television show. More than a decade earlier, they buried Susan’s parents in the backyard of their Nottingham row house. We meet Susan (Colman) and Christopher (Thewlis) as unassuming middle-aged British expats living in Paris and harboring a secret. With the facts elusive, it’s left to stars Olivia Colman and David Thewlis to maintain a level of emotional truth through what otherwise feels like a collection of amusing narrative experiments.Ĭast: Olivia Colman, David Thewlis, Kate O’ Flynn, Dipo Ola, Samuel Anderson, David Hayman, Felicity Montagu and Daniel Rigby This is true crime, but as recounted by unreliable characters and calculatedly performative filmmakers. as a platform for a mystery and a love story. Applying modes of classic Hollywood storytelling and aesthetics, writer Ed Sinclair and director Will Sharpe use a 1998 double murder that fascinated the U.K. The construction of narrative is at the heart of HBO and Sky’s four-hour limited series Landscapers. Even as the events it depicts are disturbing, the genre is comforting because it relies on a structure that allows us to process the worst of human nature and behavior. As a genre, true crime is about applying a comprehensible narrative to horrifying acts that otherwise would be beyond comprehension.

Into the badlands season 3 ep 9