.jacoboller reviews TheAlienistTNT's new season, 'Angel of Darkness,' which makes some necessary improvements while maintaining one of TV's most captivating aesthetics:
, which sets a conventional subgenre during an unconventional time , was too hiccupy to flourish and too gorgeously gruesome to ignore. Ifwas limping not too far behind with a ridiculous old-timey mustache and a killer waistcoat. But the second season, subtitledafter the novel of the same name by source author Caleb Carr, improves its storytelling significantly while maintaining one of the most interesting aesthetics on air.
The Spanish-American War is on the horizon and Ana Linares is missing. Did someone say “Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain?” If so, it was likely warmonger, newspaper baron, andinspiration William Randolph Hearst . His New York Journal has a lovingly recreated issue printed as an early prop and his goddaughter, Violet , is now engaged to John. Hearst, like Cornelius Vanderbilt and a few other historical figures, pops up as both period set dressing and thematic anthropomorphization.
A dirty, cry-filled Lying-In Hospital makes this conflict into an aesthetic reality as the camera focuses on blood, baths, hair, and veins. The women inside, placed there by wealthy men looking to rid themselves of pesky pregnancies, plead for personhood. The writing finds some much-needed depth in these relatively simple thematic overtones, weaving income and gender inequality throughout its caper and character work.
The grotesquery on display this year is downright spooky, kicked off by a well-directed pilot filled with horror flourishes. From the opening moments—horse-and-carriage action , and the most upsetting electric chair execution outside of—to the throwaway scene kiss-offs that leave us dangling in fun, silly, or otherwise inconsequential ways, the show’s pacing has gotten an energy boost without sacrificing any of the fun nastiness.
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