.JacobOller reviews Amazon's Rotoscoped series Undone, which is best when it wears its weirdness on its sleeve.
feels animated at its core, so dedicated to its visual strangeness that the silliness of its own bong-rips-at-midnight complexity could almost feel tongue-in-cheek if the subject matter wasn’t so tragic.set a standard for mindbending black comic genre fare by doing familiar time travel tropes cleverly, and with an emotional bedrock beneath it all. Both that show andfeature a sarcastic female lead and strong central traumas which are strictly related to the temporal instability.
Salazar is exceptionally expressive, which is perhaps why she’s being sought for these projects. She’s able to communicate sarcasm, reproach, disgust, and reluctant affection with an eye roll. That nuance is hard for an actor to project and harder to capture with a camera, though Mary Elizabeth Winstead is particularly good at this, and that’s who Salazar channels here. A little heightened cartoonishness ironically allows the actors—Salazar especially—to be more realistic .
Its critique of the patriarchy is just one of the many Big Ideas the show wants to grapple with, and it can feel like you overbooked yourself on grad school classes. Topics flood the plot while false equivalence brews in the brackish water. The protagonist has at least one possible mental illness along with deafness addressed with a cochlear implant.
, consult a lot of experts in its topics of choice. I’m not sure it helped. There’s simply too much, and too much that feels brazenly antithetical to the show’s deft handling of trauma.
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