Tag: Bradley Whitford
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Under the Eye: “Fairytale”
Bowling for Gilead. So Canada, right? Supposed to be America’s surrogate? Land of the … somewhat free? Home of the … arguably brave? Does your average American citizen have the rights afforded them by their Constitution and Bill of Rights, and are those rights recognized by the Canadian government? The reason I ask is because…
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Under the Eye: “Dear Offred”
“It’s so hard to talk to people, isn’t it? That’s a keystone of “discourse” in 2022 America, let alone an indeterminate year in the world of Gilead. Funny how words … have to … be delivered … in a … slow … contemplative … fashion.”
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Under the Eye: “Border”
Why does everything have to take so long? Is it me nursing the impatience of old age? It’s one of my chief complaints when watching current television. Writers take too long in telling their stories, and directors and editors accommodate those wispy, meandering deficits by making everything look far more important than it actually is,…
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Under the Eye: “Mayday”
Even in the best of times, we turn on each other. This is what we were born to do. We should always try to seek out the best of us, but we should remember there are snakes in the garden. The trouble is the snakes don’t always identify themselves. It would be easier if they…
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Under the Eye: “Sacrifice”
I knew June was laughing. Maybe it was on the inside at first. June (Elisabeth Moss) is laughing because Gilead was so distracted with the arrest of Fred and Serena that Commander Refrigerator Humper’s (Christopher Meloni) “disappearance” was put on the back-burner. I laughed with June when I realized that Gilead is not America, and…
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Under the Eye: “Liars”
For me, as a writer, good writing must make sense. It’s the Cardinal rule of fiction. There has to be some sense to a story, even on an internal level like say space aliens. Space aliens have to have rules, and those rules can’t be broken. They can be bent, but they can’t be broken.…
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Under the Eye: “Mary and Martha”
This is Filmmaking 101. I am your instructor. My name is David Lawler, and I’m going to show you how to elicit sympathy in your visuals without actually eliciting sympathy from your characters. We start with slow tracking shots, a crane gingerly poised above the lead character’s head, swooping down to see part of her…
Misadventures in Blissville 