HBO's The Third Day, and What Its Horror Has to Say About Our World

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.ShaneRyanHere on HBO's TheThirdDay, and what its brand of horror says about our world:

, HBO’s excellent new miniseries that concluded on Monday, trades in the conventions of the horror genre. There are dead animals strewn about, their guts aligned in unsettling patterns. There are lone figures standing and staring in the pose I think of as “emotionless chic” at the end of natural or interior corridors. There are sudden jump cuts. There are swarming insects. There’s ominous, tinkling music. There are dreamlike chases through hedge rows.

On a less intellectual level, Osea is beautiful—a lush, verdant, pastoral kind of place that people rave about on TripAdvisor, and which attracts the likes of Rihanna when she wants to record a new album in solitude. With a dusky palette of unrelenting grays and dark greens, the directors make terrific use of the place, and the cinematography alone is worth the watch.

But things change. Without succumbing to the rising tide of spoilers, suffice it to say he’s drawn deeper and deeper into the strange, dark mythology of the place. The performances are brilliant throughout this show—Emily Watson deserves special mention as the crass, flinty innkeeper Mrs. Martin—but Jude Law is the straw that stirs the drink.

 

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