This blew me away from the first bar of Mogwai's omnipresent, brooding, lurking, evil, insidious, dangerous, murky, scary score.
In fact Mogwai is one of the reasons this programme scored a perfect 10 for me.
It's electrifying. The violence is brutal but necessary and the story, although often complex, is worth disentangling.
It's the best use of multi POV I've seen in a long time. Very long scenes that start with an innocuous framing device; a door, a forklift truck load of jalapeños, for example, become the jumping off point for two, occasionally three, 'takes' on a plot-critical scene. It's genius.
The acting is obscenely great and as it develops it's the Hodgkinson-suffering drug dealmaker's son, played by Dane DeHaan, that eventually sits atop a masterful pile of gritty, entirely believable characters. Outstanding.
It's a three level story about cocaine smuggling by the mafia from the Mexican Narcos via a New York shipping family (Andrea Risbourgh, DeHann and Gabriel Byrne) who broker a $60m transaction and oversee its-calamity ridden transfer from A to B via most of Africa (the bad bits).
And being Catholic takes a right good kicking by the way.
It's white knuckle from start to finish (thank you Mogwai) and thrillingly filmed. At one point I said to my wife "I wish I could see this in cinema".
I expect this to clear up in awards season. Bravo!
In fact Mogwai is one of the reasons this programme scored a perfect 10 for me.
It's electrifying. The violence is brutal but necessary and the story, although often complex, is worth disentangling.
It's the best use of multi POV I've seen in a long time. Very long scenes that start with an innocuous framing device; a door, a forklift truck load of jalapeños, for example, become the jumping off point for two, occasionally three, 'takes' on a plot-critical scene. It's genius.
The acting is obscenely great and as it develops it's the Hodgkinson-suffering drug dealmaker's son, played by Dane DeHaan, that eventually sits atop a masterful pile of gritty, entirely believable characters. Outstanding.
It's a three level story about cocaine smuggling by the mafia from the Mexican Narcos via a New York shipping family (Andrea Risbourgh, DeHann and Gabriel Byrne) who broker a $60m transaction and oversee its-calamity ridden transfer from A to B via most of Africa (the bad bits).
And being Catholic takes a right good kicking by the way.
It's white knuckle from start to finish (thank you Mogwai) and thrillingly filmed. At one point I said to my wife "I wish I could see this in cinema".
I expect this to clear up in awards season. Bravo!