A landmark year for me as well as for the movies.
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 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.