Kim Manners is incredible in his use of camera to communicate drama, both interpersonal and internal. He choreographs his camera to circle his characters and always be in the perfect position to convey how they feel or what they're thinking, their reaction and what they're reacting to, all within the same frame;
A lot of the best episodes of Supernatural are directed by him.
This episode contains 2 well-executed set pieces about claustrophobia that take place in angular and cylindrical mazes respectively. They're tense and memorable.
What is also memorable is, to this point, the worst dialogue the show has had.
Restating obvious things and filtered through a cringe-generator, one character keeps spewing these out like a spigot; "Pure iron you creepy-as* son of a bi**h!" "Scream all you want you di*k you'll never step over that salt!"
Meryl Streep would make those work perhaps, but they aren't being read by Meryl Streep, but an actor that maximizes their cringe factor. Yeesh.
Casting for television is a high wire act; you miscast a movie, it's a fling gone wrong.
You miscast a recurring role in a television show, that's a bad, joy-draining marriage, which is what fails this episode; too much screen time for an actor that can't carry it.
Resect the cringe like a tumor and it's 8/10 With the cancer intact, 5/10.
This episode contains 2 well-executed set pieces about claustrophobia that take place in angular and cylindrical mazes respectively. They're tense and memorable.
What is also memorable is, to this point, the worst dialogue the show has had.
Restating obvious things and filtered through a cringe-generator, one character keeps spewing these out like a spigot; "Pure iron you creepy-as* son of a bi**h!" "Scream all you want you di*k you'll never step over that salt!"
Meryl Streep would make those work perhaps, but they aren't being read by Meryl Streep, but an actor that maximizes their cringe factor. Yeesh.
Casting for television is a high wire act; you miscast a movie, it's a fling gone wrong.
You miscast a recurring role in a television show, that's a bad, joy-draining marriage, which is what fails this episode; too much screen time for an actor that can't carry it.
Resect the cringe like a tumor and it's 8/10 With the cancer intact, 5/10.