Andy Greenwald

He wanted to do this.

And I think the thing that I, starting with Praise, because, spoiler, I did not really enjoy watching the show, I think that this is sort of all the way back to where you started, but there is a full-throated embrace of a kind of tawdry, summer,

80s and 90s blockbuster entertainment that is, you can't half-ass.

And I think that that was clearly both inspiration and the goal here.

And I think it's why I was also comparing this, maybe unintentionally at first, to last summer's version of this.

Maybe now it was two summers ago.

It was Presumed Innocent, which was another, like, let's take something from a very specific time culturally that we remember and

and try to um iterate it and well for the contemporary streaming era but also try to hold on to these things that we don't really get in our entertainment anymore yeah um

I preferred Presumed Innocent because Presumed Innocent had O.T.

Fagbenle's performance and Peter Sarsgaard's performance, and it had some knowing wit.

And I would say that this does not seem to have that.

But we can talk more broadly, and I'd like to hear your thoughts about it before I tell you what I was sort of bumping against.

Do you want me to tell you those two things?

Yeah.

The double suicide?

Yep.

That was when I was like, damn.

Oh, yeah.

I was like, okay, we're really going to do this.

This is gnarly as hell.