ollie_0222’s review published on Letterboxd:
deeply unsettling, almost so uncomfortable that honestly most of the decent comedy bits are overshadowed by at the least passive-aggressiveness and at worst kind of fucked up. the performances are all great and have neat subtleties that give the already well-written dialogue a certain sting to them. every other line just makes me wince at its subtext but it only makes me admire the film more with haynes really mastering turning these safe, domestic, paradise settings into a quiet hell along with an obsession with affluent rich people, much like in safe. lots of bergman side profiles in this, persona comparisons check out, not just on the surface but of the psychosexual and abusive subtext common in something like hour of the wolf only rendered in the glossy tv sheen of lifetime channel melodrama slop. i know haynes loves douglas sirk and sirkian melodrama is associated wit his films but as of now i think it's great how bergman's legacy lives on in a netflix original, but i certainly dig it. might have to rewatch this and safe; i think i might like this more than the latter?
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