Yet it is hard to shake the feeling that, once we know all that we do, these are not characters that deserve to be rooted for. Yes, there is flab that could be trimmed but I wasn’t bored either. But the pace isn’t an inherently bad thing – and it will only be subjective whether the story drags too much over the seven episodes. It takes a long while before Sweat and Matt make it out of the prison. It's a slow trod to get to a climax that was well-documented at the time, pierced with very occasional moments of violence and more frequent bursts of songs from the eclectic soundtrack that serve to kick up the rhythm. She’s chasing thrills as keenly and knowingly as they’re chasing freedom. Inside the Dannemora Prison Break and Manhunt by CBS This Morning Podcast published on On June 6, 2015, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York State’s largest maximum security prison. Though led by these two men, who tell her what she wants – or needs – to hear, this Tilly is not exactly without agency. When the two men decide to escape, Matt targets Tilly’s apparent susceptibility to flattery as a way of getting hold of the tools to break through their cell walls.īut the true star turn among the cast is indeed from Arquette as Tilly, who brings heart and nuance to the classic trope of a downtrodden, undersexed, middle-aged woman. The two inmates are cell neighbours and spend their days toiling in the prison tailor shop under the guidance of workshop supervisor Tilly, who whiles away the boredom of both her job and her humdrum marriage by indiscreetly engaging in lewd trysts in the storeroom with the much-younger Sweat. Patricia Arquette sits opposite Bonnie Hunt, the latter the New York State Inspector General investigating the incident, the former the seemingly infantile 51-year-old prison worker Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell, who is asked frankly whether she had sex with the two convicted murderers, David Sweat (Paul Dano) and Richard Matt (Benicio Del Toro).
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Escape at Dannemora (Sky Atlantic) is the utterly inevitable TV miniseries recreating that break out, muscling its way into the already overstuffed prison genre.Ĭreated and written by Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin ( Ray Donovan) and directed by Ben Stiller, making his first diversion from comedy directing, the story begins, like most heavyweight dramas these days, towards the end. In 2015, two inmates absconded from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, helped by a middle-aged female prison employee who appeared to be in some sort of relationship with both of them (and was crassly nicknamed "Shawskank" by the American tabloids).
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