The plot centres around an English couple grappling with their relationship while their professional trajectories head in opposing directions. The pair meet in London, in one of London's best restaurants, Hide in Mayfair, where (co-founder of the Michelin-starred spot, Ollie Dabbous, makes a cameo about half way through the movie), where Theo (Cumberbatch), who plays a high-flying architecture about to make it big, is having a business meeting
As Langston Fleury - an A.R.G.U.S. agent sent, theoretically, to assist Economos as he monitors Chris Smith's house - Meadows spends most of the episode gleefully needling his colleague instead: debating the plural of "Pokémon," applying the unwelcome (but extremely sticky) nickname "Ginger Cool," and revealing what he says is his sole weakness: bird blindness, a rare condition that makes him unable to distinguish, say, between a hummingbird or a vulture.
Yorgos Lanthimos's macabre and amusing new film has a predictably strong performance from Emma Stone, an intestine-shreddingly clamorous orchestral score from Jerskin Fendrix and, most importantly, a wonderful montage finale but frankly it's a very, very long run-up to that big jump. Added to which, there is the question of whether this bizarre if sometimes heavy-handed black comedy has fully earned its eventual pivot to serious tragic issues in the ending.
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