I don't think I've binged or finished a show overnight since Killing Eve Season1. And even for Killing Eve S1, I had never bothered to write a review about it however emotionally addicted I had been with that show. And honestly, for a quite long time, I've been under the impression that love stories center around straight couples are easily trapped in cliches. This show kind of fundamentally challenged this stereotype. It's revealatory on all fronts.
So many moments in the show left me with a viseral groaning, too hefty for words or tears. It is the most honest and accurate portrayal of love, with its billows of intensity and volatility, that I haven't seen in a long time. Not only so, its explorations of identity, belonging, and perpetual sadness-- particularly as they transmutate at various junctures of their lives-- are as nuanced as they are astute.
The show depicts the ambiguity, subtext and the complexity of love (when it gets tangled with social class, egos and family upbringings) in a profoundly cinematic way-- the esthetic cinematography and extraordinary OST are the further pushes that make me so very much captivated by this show.
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