By the end of it, you can't help but feel nasty having watched it. The line between the audience being a monster for enjoying watching grotesque and violent images and the creators engaging in that themselves by giving it to us basically makes this a tough watch. I dont know if that's good or if thats the showrunners being distasteful. The Hitchcock stuff basically illustrates that as well.
I get some of what the showrunners were going for even though it was a lot to have in there, but I get how people could see it as being all over the place. There are so many characters and stories they weave in that someone could get lost, but at the same time, people like Anthony Perkins, Christine Jorgensen and Ilse Koch are pretty interesting. They really were trying to explore so much.
After learning a little more about it, I kinda didnt like how they made it seem like the Adeline girl explicitly encouraged Ed. It's not really clear how much of a relationship they had and you can always go he's losing his mind so you're viewing how he thinks things took place, but they had her seeing bodies, running off and then carrying on, seeing him cut skin off as well as her lowkey encouraging necrophilia and if you take that as her not being serious, she's later entertaining his complaint about her being too warm.
I don't even know if I'd recommend even if I found some stuff interesting, but the acting performances in this were great to me, especially Charlie Hunnam's.
x 10.
I was thinking she was a composite character made up for the show
