Despite Soderbergh’s masterful touch and Danes’ solid performance, the whole series ends a little too neatly to be all that compelling.
After five episodes of secret families, age-old misunderstandings, and impulsive decisions resulting in unforeseeable damage, the season finale offeels a little … neat? I expected anticlimax, sure: This has never been a show concerned with traditional or predictable narrative shape. After all, all the main antagonists are either dead or in jail by the halfway point of “Essequibo.
Garmen and Xavier get there quickly with the help of an impressive hidden tunnel from his house dating back to Prohibition. But Louis and Nat have their work cut out for them. Their plan to steal the Brownes’ painting is desperate and hastily thought out, and a negative outcome is all but assured without Sam’s cooperation. But after a struggle that ends in her pointing a gun right at Louis, she decides to let him have the painting.
None of this really plays like a huge reveal; it’s the logical final piece of a puzzle that we could mostly piece together ourselves as early as the third episode. But it’s a life-changing moment for Sam, especially because her indirect death toll includes Manny. But that doesn’t feel quite right for such a deliberately messy, morally jagged story. And it slightly muddles Soderbergh and Ed Solomon’s class commentary to end with so much growth and reconciliation among the upper-class characters, along with such a straightforwardly successful defeat of violence and corruption.in recent years, and I wasn’t actively rooting for the Brownes to suffer more .
I don’t mean to be too down on this finale, which largely accomplishes what it set out to do. But looking back on these six episodes, I see a clean, frequently entertaining thriller with intriguing ideas and characters who moved around too much to ever fully come to life. It’s like that unbroken chalk circle left by Mr. Willoughby: full but with nothing inside.
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