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- SHOWTIME
- Nov 18, 2018
- SHOWTIME
- Nov 18, 2018
Summary The Ben Stiller eight-part limited series dramatizes the 2015 Dannemora prison break in upstate New York, where convicted murderer Richard Matt (Benicio del Toro) plans an escape with fellow inmate David Sweat (Paul Daon) with the help of Tilly Mitchell (Patricia Arquette), the married prison shop supervisor who had become involved with...
Created By: Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin
- SHOWTIME
- Nov 18, 2018
- SHOWTIME
- Nov 18, 2018
Summary The Ben Stiller eight-part limited series dramatizes the 2015 Dannemora prison break in upstate New York, where convicted murderer Richard Matt (Benicio del Toro) plans an escape with fellow inmate David Sweat (Paul Daon) with the help of Tilly Mitchell (Patricia Arquette), the married prison shop supervisor who had become involved with...
Created By: Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
78
85% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
15% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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A transformative work that so vividly brings the drama to life it might as well be brand-new to its audience. ... [Ben Stiller's] gorgeous and haunting work, combined with a career-best performance from Arquette, helps Dannemora transcend into one of the best TV experiences of the year.
Tilly is the most fascinating character, filled with need and unhappiness, and Arquette fearlessly plays this wholly unflattering role with absolute abandon.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
7.8
86% Positive
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
8% Mixed
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6% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
7.8
86% Positive
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
8% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
6% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
every character was so well developed and played it was like each of them had their own little movie. I think the best overall performance was Patricia Arquette followed by Paul Dano but really everyone was spectacular. no corny fluff added, just superb direction by
Ben Stiller (had no idea he was such a talented director)
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SEASON 1
Though the contributions of the full cast and crew can’t go undervalued, it’s Stiller and Arquette who push Escape at Dannemora above solid genre and into immersive TV for just about anyone.
A smart, watchable, elegantly made fact-based drama.
Like many limited series these days, Dannemora probably could stand to be shorter; it stalls out and loses momentum in the middle episodes before ramping back up for the final installments. But there’s a lot of rich psychological ground to cover here, and Stiller and his actors patiently sift through every bit of it.
When [Patricia Arquette] is on-screen, the show becomes about a woman denied the opportunity to live fully and freely, someone who’s never had the pleasure of being understood and so cannot understand herself. The story falls short of urgent relevance, and it didn’t need to be told over seven hours. But Arquette will keep you rapt.
Unfortunately, all the top-notch acting can't quite overcome the pacing problems of Escape at Dannemora. It takes five episodes to get out of the prison and even Stiller's most impressive and creative efforts at illuminating all the discovery, digging and sweat it took to get there can't make it more exciting.
El primer capitulo esta genial el resto de la serie tambien muy bien adaptado consigue que añores una libertad y te encariñes, te identifiques con unos personajes a los que en la calle no habriamos dado ni la hora. La musica destaca por el extasis de algunas canciones y el anhelo de otras a destacar.
favorablemente ese roque country mezcla pop , yo habría metido mas metal pero es mi gusto.
Un saludo para todos.
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SEASON 1
Despite the good acting, especially Patricia Arquette who may win an Emmy for her performance here, I found this show lacking in appeal. It is gritty and full of unsavory characters as might be expected in a prison film. That makes it realistic, I suppose, but still not my favorite type of story. At times it is excruciatingly boring. They could have reduced the number of episodes by half and made for a much more interesting and faster paced series. I am being generous by giving it a 6.
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SEASON 1
This film dramatizes the actual 2015 escape from this prison. I was REALLY looking forward to this but the decision to present it as seven hour-long episodes is a Fail, which they seemingly knew since they lopped off one of the typical eight eps. Ben Stiller still struggles in television and film as either actor or director. He does nothing to distinguish himself in the latter role with this sleep-inducing series which brings you all the gray depression and sordid relationships of the prison environment. You'll be forgiven if you bail after ep1, don't waste yours and others' lives trying to power through it.
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SEASON 1
I"m writing from Malone. I worked Clinton (Dannemora) for 12 years. I know Palmer, Tilly was married to my cousin (before Mitchell).
First, what's with the Chicago accents?
Second, I've lived in that jail. Inmates don't have "papers" ( I still don't get that scene) and the yard scene is missing CO's. That just doesn't happen. There are CO's all over that yard. The picnic table scene makes no sense at all, and the "shakedown" guard's hair touches his collar. Doesn't happen.
Also, the cell block looks like the old Oz set.
Palmer never had keys to to catwalk. I never had them ( and he would have reported to me ).
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