Herewith some thoughts on tonight's powerful Escape at Dannemora finale:
1. Michael Imperioli did a great Andrew Cuomo. Doesn't look all the much like him, but he got the Governor's voice and manner down perfectly.
2. Matt was indeed a pretty good artist. The portraits of George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton that we saw at the end were a lot better than most. (I like Joel Iskowitz's work better - he's done a lot of my book covers, and is doing the cover for my new album, Welcome Up. But if JI wasn't available, I might have asked Matt, if he was still alive and not a murderer.)
3. Matt really slowed Sweat down after the escape. He was at his best, in control and usually comfortably in charge, in prison. He was at his worst outside of prison, in the real world.
4. But even on his own, had Sweat made it to Canada, would he have been home free? The Canadians won't extradite people for whom there might be a death penalty, but there wasn't one awaiting Sweat, so it seems possible, even likely, that they would have extradited him. Of course, they first would have needed to find him. (Especially strong work by Paul Dano as Sweat tonight.)
5. Tilly seems to have an almost unbelievable power over men. Her husband is staying with her, and if that scene near the end, with the new prison guard (or cop) propositioning her is true ... plus the prisoners at Dannemora ... well ...
6. All in all, an unusual and excellent series. I still don't get though, why it's "Escape at" rather than "Escape from"? Is that because they didn't succeed in their escape? Do the results of an escape govern our grammar?
But I enjoyed the mini-series.
See also Escape at Dannemora 1-3: Cold True Crime ... Escape at Dannemora 4: Break Through ... Escape at Dannemora: Out ... Escape at Dannemora 6: Back Stories
this cover by Joel Iskowitz ... really
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