NAOMI WATTS: (As Jean Holloway) I used to believe that people determined their own lives. It starred Naomi Watts as a therapist who secretly infiltrates the lives of her patients. Consider the streaming service's failed drama "Gypsy" from last year. This trend really emerged on Netflix, where series often drop all their episodes at once and don't need to lure viewers week after week. It's when a TV project stretches too little story over too many episodes. "Escape At Dannemora" suffers from something critics are calling Netflix bloat. And the show often tells us the same thing multiple times. In a seven-episode series, the escape doesn't happen until late in episode five. But there's a problem with this detailed rendering of a prison break. Eventually, Tilly will sleep with both convicts and smuggle in the tools to help them escape. And Stiller's camera savers their bad haircuts, bad teeth, heavyset figures and serious lack of smarts. I'm going for a walk.ĭEGGANS: Basically Tilly and Lyle Mitchell are losers. LANGE: (As Lyle Mitchell) I just need you to explain to me.ĪRQUETTE: (As Tilly Mitchell) This movie sucks. So when the guy who gives us promotions asks me, the shop supervisor, to make him a suit for graduation and my best guy is inmate Sweat, who's been in that shop longer than I have, who do you think I'm going to be working with on this project? PATRICIA ARQUETTE: (As Tilly Mitchell) And who is it that gives us promotions?ĮRIC LANGE: (As Lyle Mitchell) The superintendent.ĪRQUETTE: (As Tilly Mitchell) Exactly. She says a prison superintendent has them working on a project together. When her husband Lyle takes her to a movie and asks about Sweat, she lies. Patricia Arquette's Mitchell, nicknamed Tilly, is a caustic woman who feels validated by Sweat's attention. Actor Ben Stiller stays behind the camera this time to direct "Escape At Dannemora." He delivers a serious drama that practically marinates in the prison's debilitating environment. The spouse always finds out.ĭEGGANS: You can hear in the background the atmosphere of the prison - claustrophobic, noisy and chaotic. But she is married, and her husband works here. PAUL DANO: (As David Sweat) Why does it matter to you all of a sudden?ĭEL TORO: (As Richard Matt) If she wasn't married, I'd say it's risky. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA")īENICIO DEL TORO: (As Richard Matt) You really think it's a good idea playing doctor with the tailor shop supervisor? Richard Matt has a cell next to Sweat and also works in the tailor shop. She's played masterfully by Patricia Arquette. Inmate David Sweat is having an affair with Joyce Mitchell, a mousy woman who runs the prison tailor shop. They will eventually cut through the walls of their cells to escape. It stars Benicio del Toro as Richard Matt and Paul Dano as David Sweat, inmates at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says the series suffers from a problem affecting lots of television shows these days.ĮRIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: In some ways, "Escape At Dannemora" is one of the year's best TV series. Their brazen and meticulous prison break seems straight out of a movie.ĬORNISH: Now that movie's been made as a limited television series on Showtime called "Escape At Dannemora." The show debuts Sunday. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The cons apparently used power tools to escape New York's Clinton Correctional Facility. When a pair of convicted murderers broke out of an upstate New York prison three years ago, TV networks jumped on the story.
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