Post by geometryman on Jul 29, 2017 11:00:47 GMT
As of yesterday all 9 episodes of this are available and I've now watched the second one - the pilot was released over a year ago, and I may have to re-watch that as I've forgotten a lot of it.
It's set in 1930s Hollywood and based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last (unfinished) novel. The costumes and filming are sumptuously done and the period feel very good. The central character is Monroe Stahr, a whizz-kid film producer in a struggling studio owned by Pat Brady. This is the Depression era so financial investment is hard to come by, except from Nazi Germany - and that would entail interference in what the studio does and who they use.
The only member of the large cast that I'm familiar with is Kelsey Grammer, who plays Brady. It makes for an interesting comparison with another Amazon Prime original series I enjoyed and would recommend - 'Z: The Beginning of Everything', which is a fictionalised account of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda starring Christina Ricci, and now renewed for a second series.
It's set in 1930s Hollywood and based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last (unfinished) novel. The costumes and filming are sumptuously done and the period feel very good. The central character is Monroe Stahr, a whizz-kid film producer in a struggling studio owned by Pat Brady. This is the Depression era so financial investment is hard to come by, except from Nazi Germany - and that would entail interference in what the studio does and who they use.
The only member of the large cast that I'm familiar with is Kelsey Grammer, who plays Brady. It makes for an interesting comparison with another Amazon Prime original series I enjoyed and would recommend - 'Z: The Beginning of Everything', which is a fictionalised account of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda starring Christina Ricci, and now renewed for a second series.
Anymore to come?
