What is the recommendation (and appreciation) of this series by Christopher Nolan?

Surprisingly unnoticed, the series earned Emma Stone a Golden Globes nomination, and was praised by big names in cinema.

The Safadi brothers are one of those directors who are known to moviegoers and filmmakers worldwide, but less known to the general public. According to reviews, this bad luck does not stop there. Indeed, most expected his film Uncut James The Oscar was nominated in several categories, but in vain. Benny Safdie’s first series with Emma Stone looks set to continue in this vein, but he’s got a first-rate fan: Christopher Nolan.

A real curse?

The Oscar-nominated director was full of praise for the most divisive series of the moment, even for comparison. Two identical horns And the prisoner (by, and with Patrick McGoohan). If compared to this show, today considered one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of television, what caused its popular failure? Contemporary audiences and critics view these productions positively, but this has not always been the case.

indeed, Two identical horns It was canceled after its second season, and legend has it that the team was emboldened when its prequel aired. Fire Walk With Me at Cannes. Patrick McGoohan, for his part, had to pull his children out of school and flee to England after his hit series aired, because the reaction was so violent that he feared an actual public lynching.

So, when the texture likes the curse (a harsh and iconoclastic critique of a very self-serving and philanthropic form) As she decides to break the code of the genre she belongs to, it’s perhaps not surprising that she gets such bad marks on sites like Rotten Tomatoes (41%) despite her considerable success. .

That didn’t stop Christopher Nolan from congratulating his co-creators. According to him, “ An incredible series unlike anything (he) had seen on television before. There are few shows that go without a foreshadowing like this », he explained, before comparing with or with the aforementioned productions The Singing Detective, by Dennis Potter. The film maker so hoists the curse (Available from us on Paramount+) In Good Company. Enough to make the general public want to give it a second chance?