Joelle Monique

It's just about the struggles of the time period, which becomes laborious.

I felt that this found a really good balance between like, okay, there was some segregation.

Okay.

Not everyone would have respected everyone in their position because of the color of their skin.

Right.

But this is nobody's like sob story.

And I was pleasantly surprised by that.

So there's,

Again, some things to enjoy, some cute performances.

I thought costuming was sensational and the black and white was beautiful.

So if you just like watching black and white images, you could just tune right off and enjoy the visual imagery of the show.

Even when we're looking at the shots, some of these shots are composed so beautifully, but then you'll go 15 minutes without a beautifully composed shot, and you're like, we were just at the table with the mirror effect, and it was so gorgeous.

Where did that go?

It just comes and goes so randomly, too.

I wish that there had been some kind of stake straight through where it was like,

Everyone is serious, but Nick Cage is the clown in this space.

I thought that might have worked.

Or if we had more of a Pleasantville effect where, you know, I know they're trying to separate it from the movie.

I'm not quite sure why that was the decision that ended up being made.

But like in the movie, his character finds a Rubik's Cube and he's perplexed and like he's like astounded by it.