Beware !!! (literally stay away from this Fake Fear)
Max Cady is Back ! And this time he is Javier Bardem with a goat-e and Udo Kier type of Blue Eyes -actually Green lenses!)
The new Cape Fear is here...on Apple Tv + (premiered June 5th)
Episodes 1 and 2 were cool and atmospheric, but will it have enough breath to do Ten ?
we'll see...
well, now it's over and what was originally published on June 8th overstyed its welcome -as expected !!! here are the August 1st conclusions of this bloated overbearing season !
Bardem, best thing about him, his Panama hat, does not get even close to his Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men or even the blonde eyed psycho Silva from Skyfall. No my faved, his best psycho and most fun is the one from Perdita Durango, Romeo !. Basically Bardem is ripping off De Niro's Max Cady at a nec plus ultra grand guignol style. Effieint but pastiche...
Very little from the original book John D. MacDonald's The Executioners (1957) stays on.
cool tittle lettering, cool ideas from the Scorsese 1991 remake and homage (the shots on the negative, camera moves), and most of all the music stays the same. Bernard Herrmann's score, now redone by Jeff Russo. This is the only asset imo, I think I watched it for the score alone, this being one of the best I ever heard, and tops some of Herrmann's work with Hitchcock.
Exec prod by Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and showrunner Nick Antosca.
Wasted Ted Levine and Ron Perlman in the obvious baddie daddy roles.
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1st episode, 'Fingers and Toes' directed by Norwegian Morten Tyldum (Headhunters, Passengers).
Ep. 2 'Why Would I Want to Hurt You?' directed by S.J. Clarkson (Jessica Jones, Madame Web), features a cameo by screenwiter Wesley Strick (who wrote the 1991 remake of CF).
Ep. no. 3 on June 12th: Phantom Sensations
already feeling the nausea
Ep. 4 Pierced. June 19th.
some lgbtq happens before the two daughters.
ep.5 Faith -June 26.
loss of breath, mambojambo and a sinister Juliette Lewis.
Ep. 6 Possum -July 3rd.
that's when I feel like quiting, don't really wanna see how they're gonna mangle this beyond belief.
Ep. 7: Mongrel -July 10th
by episode seven it's becoming such a grand guignol caricature with storytelling of a bad telenovela, I switched it of. They take a road trip and ouch, and the soundtracks goes from BOC's Don't Fear the Reaper to Alice Cooper's Eighteen.
Ep. 8 ∙ Los tiempos de Dios son Perfectos -July 17. Telenovellas quickens.
Ep. 9- The Scar -July 24. More mambojambo, rednecks and swamps. We don't need a bigger boat ;)
Ep. 10: The Executioners. July 31th. Hurricane arrives. Leaving open season two ? C'mon !!!
2 out of 5, 4 out of 10 !
