35/50
The exploits of various guests and employees of a luxury resort over the span of a week.. HBO renewed the series for a second season despite the show being intended as a limited one season mini-series. It is said that the show will be an anthology style series with new characters for each season. HBO has done this before (to widespread acclaim) with the series True Detective (2014).. Featured in Jeremy Vine: Episode #4.175 (2021). Though some of the first season was cringe-worthy. This second season is about as masterful as anyone could hope for.It starts a bit slow, the first episode, but soon finds its legs and impresses again and again, captivating me as if I weren't quite seasoned. It feels like a review of every thought I've ever had at a vacation resort, many of which I'd long forgotten. On that score alone it's a delight, but not to worry, it goes way beyond that to flirt with opera-like heights of drama and beauty something quite appropriate given its setting in Sicily.Given the excellence of the acting and the seeming effortlessness of the story I would have to say Mike White, this series' creator, is some sort of unsung genius. The guy seems unaware of boundaries coupled with one of the sharpest eyes for detail I've ever seen.
NAME HITCHCOCK 2024