can we also talk about the cinematography and the way the landscape of the show EXPLODED open into a cold and breathtaking nightmare. can we talk about how transporting a corporate thriller to the vast forest felt fresh and exciting and created a type of horror I’ve never seen before—tvs on cliffs powered by nothing, uncanny business twins in the distance, unknown beasts rotting by the river, men grotesquely transformed into nature for experiencing pleasure, Woe, at your cubicle, in the forest. can we talk about the lighting!!! whites and blacks and blues and reds, the contrast of Mark and Helena red in the tent and Irving blue and lonely under the moon. can we talk about how last episode LITERALLY blew the ceiling off the show and now they can do anything, and what they chose to do was go somewhere radically jaw-droppingly different, where innies see the sky for the first time, but can only pay attention to the cold and their hunger, where innies dream for the first time, but their dreams are nightmares, where innies have sex for the first time, but the sex is a double lie, and where innies witness death for the first time… and then the second
