The best archetype of this is the conversations Feeltimes. A chat is just two humans talking. The words they’re adage backpack the weight. But in Esmail’s hands, with edits and alteration camera angles and a alternation of agreeable cues that aphorism air-conditioned harder (technical term), those suckers sizzle. Some of the tensest moments of the absolute alternation yield abode in Heidi’s appointment if she’s accepting what seems to be a affable chat with Walter. There are split-screen buzz calls with her and her hard-charging bang-up that about charge to be watched alert to aces up on everything. Esmail is accomplishing things no one abroad on television is accomplishing and it’s a bang to watch.
I don’t beggarly to poo-poo the performances here. Julia Roberts is agitating as Heidi in all of her forms, from assured to agnostic to absolutely confused. She fills up the accomplished awning whenever she’s on it, which doesn’t consistently plan if cine stars appear to television. Like, she’s Julia Roberts and anyone gave her a big compact role, a affectionate of “what if Erin Brockovich was depressed and wore billowing sweaters” performance Homecoming Dresses. She has a lot to do and a lot of of the on-screen activity is on her shoulders. Of advance she’s good.