Julia Garner (Grandma) develops a father fixation for Shea Whigham. Written by Audry Wells (Under the Tuscan Sun) and Abby Sher, directed by Emmy Rossum.
Then in an outstanding and moving episode, pregnant wanderer Olivia Cooke donates her baby to gay couple Andrew Scott and Brandon Kyle Goodman (Ed Sheeran has a cameo), written and directed by Carney. Scott and Cooke are particularly wonderful. Ends on Bowie.
Finally, love later on in life, in 'The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap', written by Carney and Tom Hall and directed by Hall. Jane Alexander falls for the lovely-faced James Saito. The episode also manages to wrap up the other stories by showing us extra / later scenes.
Noticed how the Schumann was beginning to appear again and again and wondered if there's some kind of linking device throughout.
All photographed by Yaron Orbach in distinctly high-end NYC locations.
Beginning to love John Carney - this is one of Amazon's best original shows. Though the reviews were strangely negative: 'May result in queasiness' (Independent), 'All heart, no soul.. Characters have the depth of a thimble' (Vulture), 'Bland, will-this-do..sickly' (Guardian), 'Hard to care about their problems' (Telegraph), 'Charming but uneven' (New York Times), 'Clunky.. clichéd' (Variety). But funnily enough, through all that, the reviewers all focus on a different story that they thought stood out from the others, not all the same story. Which I guess shows you something... (as well as reviewers being a bunch of arseholes. Well, not Derek Malcolm, obviously. Or Sean Day-Lewis.)
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