1/17/2024 0 Comments Station 11 recap episode 7I’m in full agreement with you about the combined strength of the visuals, the editing and the score. What do you make of the flashbacks with Jeevan and Young Kirsten at the house and the way the episode contrasted their conflict with the conflict with Alex in 2040? What were your overall thoughts about the episode and David Cross’s cameo as Gil? And while I tiptoed around the ending, I want to know your reaction to the kids, and the mines. I could be coming down a bit hard on “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Aren’t Dead,” so I’ll turn it over to you, Joe. Maybe this episode is like composer Romer and Dear Evan Hansen.they can’t all be good (though it does give us a fantastic line, as Kirsten tells Katrina, “we are artists.we’re terrified”) This episode didn’t widen the world or deepen my understanding of it, two things the aforementioned episodes did exceedingly well. Because I think a lot of the plot points of the episode are important and set up specific conflicts as the miniseries moves into its middle half, but I missed the more character-based episodes (“Wheel of Fire” and “A Hawk From a Handsaw,” to be specific). It leaves me in a weird predicament, Joe. ![]() ![]() I was honestly ready to write the episode mostly off as a necessary plot point, however dull I found it, until the explosive ending. Kirsten finds herself in the same predicament that Jeevan did, only the roles are reversed, when it comes to parenting Alex. With Alex (Philippine Velge) acting somewhat obtuse and shady after her own talk with the Prophet, Kirsten decides she needs to get to the bottom of whatever his deal is.Īwkward family reunions occur between Gil, Katrina and the actors ensue.Ī random and off-the-cuff performance of Hamlet is produced on the spot when Sarah feels threatened by Gil’s cockiness. She believes there’s only one copy and no way the Prophet could know its story, since she hid the comic at Pingtree. He asks why the troupe doesn’t go to the town of Pingtree and we learn that the former director of the troupe Gil (David Cross) and Conductor Sarah (Lori Petty) had a falling out about the direction of the troupe and Gil left, with new lover Katrina (Sarah Orenstein), to Pingtree.īut Kirsten (Mackenzie Davis) is still reeling from her interaction with the Prophet (Daniel Zovatto) and the knowledge he seemingly has about her graphic novel Station Eleven. It’s also here that newly recruited Dan (Dylan Taylor) gets to act as the audience’s cipher to understand the politics of the group. He leaves, rebuked, with the promise of seeing them at their next stop, Huevos Santiago. His perennially creepy smile suggests that the troupe will eventually make its way there and it won’t be a great stop. First, we get the return of Brian (Enrico Colantoni), the emissary introduced in “A Hawk from a Handsaw”, begging the troupe to make a stop at the Museum of Civilization. This episode, the new characters come with a whole lot of baggage. The Traveling Symphony, meanwhile, has struggled to even give me names for some of the characters and leaves me scrambling to catch up before it drops new ones on us. Station Eleven has given us episodes devoted to this trio of characters and they have the most thematic depth and emotional connection for me. Maybe it’s because the narrative just drops us into the midst of the Traveling Symphony after giving us so much time to relate to Young Kirsten (Matilda Lawler), Jeevan (Himesh Patel) and Miranda (Danielle Deadwyler). Which leads me to the second thing I noticed about this particular episode: it feels slight and, when contrasted with last week’s “Hurricane,” reminded me that I don’t particularly care about these 2040 characters. ![]() The opening shot of episode 4 shows a person trudging through deep snow, intercut with someone walking through tunnels and another through the streets of Chicago, the music just ominously building in the background while the repeated refrain of “I remember damage” percolating behind it all.Įven when Station Eleven isn’t doing anything, it’s still an audiovisual feast for the senses. Dear Evan Hansen.īut Station Eleven’s music is so intrinsic to its visual aspects, which also ties into the show’s themes about the importance of art and music in a post apocalyptic world. Romer has gifted us with fantastic scores in the past, from Beasts of the Southern Wild and Beasts of No Nation to Luca and.er. It’s the absolute banger of a score by composer Dan Romer that’s often mixed beautifully and perfectly with the editing (this episode courtesy of Anna Hauger and Yoni Reiss) and cinematography by Daniel Grant. The first thing I noticed in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Aren’t Dead” is something I’ve noticed from the very beginning and keep forgetting to mention, Joe. “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Aren’t Dead”
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