Ten for originality. Looking for boilerplate studio formulas, this is not for you. A simple vengeance plot is meticulously displayed with many nuances and luckily for us the twists compound on each other. What I like is the attention to detail and the creators' choice to throw some rules right out the window. Anachronisms don't exist because the period is damn impossible to pin down. Flip phones, texting, and computers are in use, but music references are from the 70s mostly, cars from 50s, ratrods stretching about 5 decades, retro barn entertainment imitating the 30s, and best of all fabulous, fabulous burlesque which, on its own, is reason enough to watch this show. Using a constant pull between soft dialogue and brutal violence creator Josh Corbin has succeeded at making this a tension masterpiece. Like Hitchcock, not every scene is blood-spattered, but you feel the horror of drawn out anticipation. Acting is top notch. Lea Delaria is wicked and a bit androgynous. I want to be Rory Cochrane's character in my fantasy. But my award for excellence in all categories goes to Madison Davenport who could have just relied on knockout looks but instead acts like someone who studied Bette Davis movies all her life. The show makes a simple plot very clear and very entertaining. In other hands it would have ended up looking like trashy kitsch. Instead, this is as close to opera as Netflix can get.
