37/28
The exploits of various guests and employees at a luxury resort over the course of a week. HBO has renewed the series for a second season, even though the show was originally intended to be a limited one-season miniseries. The show is said to be an anthology-style series with new characters each season. HBO has done this before (to widespread acclaim) with True Detective (2014). Featured by Jeremy Wiene: Episode #4.175 (2021). While the first few seasons were underwhelming, this second season is about as masterful as you could hope for. It starts off a bit slow, the first episode, but soon picks up and surprises me over and over again, captivating me like I wasn’t quite experienced. It feels like a review of every thought I’ve ever had about a vacation resort, many of which I’d long since forgotten. That alone is a pleasure, but don’t worry, flirting with operatic peaks of drama and beauty is something that’s quite fitting, given its setting in Sicily. Considering the excellence of the acting and the seeming effortless storytelling, I would have to say Mike White, the creator of this series, is some kind of unsung genius. The guy seems to know no bounds, as well as one of the sharpest details I’ve ever seen.
