I did not see a thread on this, but my Wife and I started watching because we saw that Paul Walter Hauser won the Emmy and Golden Globe for his performance as serial killer Larry Hall. This is so damn good. Highly recommend! Ray Liota's last hoorah too.
Finished. I'll give it a B. Overall, it was good, but a little flat and meandering tonally. Sometimes it felt like a CBS primetime show, sometimes it felt like a spy movie, then it was a prison movie, a serial killer movie...I felt like they struggled to blend it all together. I do have my biases here. I just watched True Detective season 1, which is the pinnacle of filmmaking, serial killer, drama, cop and suspense media. After that, anything pales. So it's not very fair that this was a palette cleanser. I also don't really like Greg Kinnear as an actor. The only thing I've ever seen him believable in is As Good As It Gets, where he plays an uptight gay man...which I think is really just his personality. There was also a stunning resemblance between the hot FBI chick and a boss I had over a decade ago who was a total cunt to me. So these things sort of informed my view of the show. I think Hall's brother's casting was a little over the top; dude was chiseled from jaw to toes. We get it, he got all the marbles. I looked up the real twins and you can absolutely tell that they're brothers. The prison guards and FBI agents were all just super nice, I didn't get that either. The whole mob boss side thread was under-developed and didn't really go anywhere. The dad/son dynamic for Jimmy was a little flat, too. The guy who played Hall was amazing. Taron was great, too (also biased here as he looks like my dead best friend). There was good suspense and the scenes with Hall and Jimmy were riveting. But overall, good watch if you like prison/serial killer shows. Not True Detective Season 1 quality, but then again, what is?
