Host @NancyMillerHere brings back #LoveandDeath show creators David E. Kelley and Lesli Linka Glatter to discuss this pivotal episode and how they carefully handled shifting from a period drama to a crime thriller. Listen to Episode 4 now: listen.hbomax.com/LoveandDeath
First & second shots: What should be a happy, celebratory moment actually feels miserable and lonely. The dark space, ugly yellow, empty space (exaggerated by the use of a wide lense) and the underwhelming sign create a huge contrast with what's happening story wise. You can truly feel how miserable and lonely life felt for Betty.
Third shot: I love the blocking in this shot. Betty's surrounded by people, however, she's lonely and feels completely ignored by both her family and the women she wants to befriend. She's contemplating approaching said women but feels small and vulnerable.
Fourth shot: A frame within a frame so we can keep the focus on Betty, as always, lonely and emotionally dependent on her husband. She's completely isolated from her kids and everyone else in the town. A depressed and overwhelmed woman with absolutely no support, not even from the man she's trying to talk to.
Fifth shot: I absolutely love the lighting in this scene. It's colorful and fun, the exact opposite of Betty's life. Candy also feels trapped in her own marriage, but here, she's learning about a world full of possibilities and the fun she's so desperate for. Just like with Betty, the lense used here allows us to see lots of space around her. However, the composition is different. She's not isolated and in a corner, like Betty's usually seen (or even Candy herself, while she's at home). The lines and contrast between the red and green here make Candy and her friends the center of attention.
Since the link doesn’t appear to be showing what this is, I’ll say it here: reddit had some choice words about Lizzie and the Love and Death crew’s opinion of Candy Montgomery.
I suppose this sort of thing was inevitable when covering a topic as controversial as what Love and Death is doing. I don’t feel like I’m even qualified to have an opinion on this, but these people all clearly do. Here were some of my favorite comments:
To be perfectly honest, I can understand this argument. It is genuinely pretty concerning how everyone working on Love and Death seems determined to make Candy Montgomery sympathetic at the expense of Betty Gore. Is that not kind of tasteless?
The part about her allegedly chanting the word is blatantly untrue, and any Wanda fans that genuinely tried to slander any Romani actress for being fancast as Wanda are not Wanda fans as far as I’m concerned.
I’ve already talked a little about Red Scare, and to be honest there is surprisingly little information about them online, so I can’t really verify if all that is true. Maybe it is.
Here is a follow up to my previous book!Carrie designs. I tried to stick closely with the book descriptions, especially for Margaret, but some of the characters were left to my imagination. I was heavily influenced by the 2002 adaptation of Sue, as she's by far my favourite interpretation of that character.
I've seen a lot of speculation on Simon either pulling Betty out of Golb or staying with her or leaving her behind again, but surprisingly no one has put this on the table
The Bete Noire can use souls it's collected to restore it's physical form. As long as it has souls to feed off of, there is no injury it can't get up from.