Chris Ryan

You can feel the sweat.

You can feel the tattoos on De Niro.

You can feel the water like hitting them as they have this damp film.

big finale and uh this show is trying to do what several shows like it um in the past have also attempted which is to see if they can reliably hour to hour release some tension and then pour it back on so that the people so the audience is continues to be engaged and continues to have the sense memory experience of watching cape fear

which is kind of the hardest part about this show to navigate, is how do you sustain this vibe for this many hours when usually the human body checks out after two hours?

Just like, I need this to resolve itself.

No, not really.

It's definitely... We're doing, on Rewatchables this month, we're doing the From Hell genre, which is a largely, like, 90s-based phenomenon subgenre of thriller that basically does the dot, dot, dot from hell.

So roommate from hell, stepfather from hell, nanny from hell.

Um...

this is the best possible version of from hell.

And I guess it's the thing from your past from hell.

And I think this was Scorsese.

You know, this had been a, a thing that had been banging around Amblin and that Spielberg had considered directing himself and Scorsese winds up doing it.

Yeah.

This is the Schindler's list trade, right?

And in some ways it worked out for both of them exactly right.

Because Scorsese gets to show he can make a blockbuster in a really sincere, efficient way.

It has so much style.

And this is the thing that I was thinking about going into this TV series is that so much of Cape Fear relies on the artistry of the filmmaking because the people are relatively unpleasant to spend time with.