If the movie has the ring of a high school or college reunion, that’s because that’s pretty much what it’s like.
Go back to the first episode of Luck and you’ll see how much is made of a little goat (known for his giant testicles) that hangs out in Turo’s barn.
Sopranos director Allen Coulter gives us a taste of what the darker Luck many of us had been wishing for might have been like.
As in creator David Milch’s previous HBO shows, one of Luck’s central themes concerns the building of a community.
There’s no getting around the fact that this week’s episode of Luck was overstuffed with exposition.
After the emotional high points reached in last week’s installment of Luck, it’s only natural that this week’s episode feels a bit like a come-down.
Milch-speak, as it’s referred to, is made more impenetrable in Luck than it is in his period-accurate Deadwood.
These horses aren’t just lucky talismans; they also possess a purity of spirit that rehabilitates many of the show’s jaded characters.
It’s in this episode where one is first able to grasp how the different permutations of fortune have washed the show’s ensemble ashore.
In Luck, the majestic thoroughbreds shine as they stand backlit by the sun.
David vs. David vs. David, or Which Is the Greatest TV Drama Ever, The Wire, Deadwood, The Sopranos?
For me, The Sopranos is a tough choice, because the three shows deal with America in different ways.
Revelation takes many forms, and David Milch chooses a more subdued and implicative tack in closing out this chapter of the show’s narrative.
The varied impressions of a discordant society finally banding together are offset by a concomitant sense of purgatorial limbo.
John from Cincinnati Recap: Episodes 7 & 8, “His Visit: Day Six” & “His Visit: Day Seven”
That was most certainly the voice of the Creator taunting the fragile Barry Cunningham in the dilapidated barroom of the Snug Harbor Motel.
Like Coltrane’s cover of “My Favorite Things,” John from Cincinnati is an extended riff on things familiar, now made strange.
Thus far, David Milch and his cast have trod a fine line between the captivating and the repellent.
Completion does not necessarily mean forcing the end.
The final season of a television masterpiece. Bring on those movies, HBO!
The fences go up in the aftermath of the miracle that closed the second episode of John from Cincinnati.
John from Cincinnati Recap: Episodes 1 & 2, “His Visit: Day One” & “His Visit: Day Two”
If there is a master narrative plan for the show it is the excavation and unearthing of that ineffable essence that makes us human.