Paul Dano (Love & Mercy) is set to star opposite Benicio del Toro and Patricia Arquette in Showtime’s limited series Escape At Dannemora (aka Clinton Correctional), directed and executive produced by Ben Stiller. Having all three leads in place, the eight-hour limited series has received a formal green light by the premium cable network, with Stiller directing all eight episodes.
Escape At Dannemora is based on the headline-making true story of a 2015 prison break in upstate New York, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled.
Del Toro will play convicted murderer Richard Matt, an artistic yet intimidating force within the prison, who masterminds the escape. Arquette will play Tilly Mitchell, a working class, married woman who supervises the prison tailor shop and becomes sexually involved with both convicts, inducing her to assist them with their escape. Dano will play David Sweat, a convicted cop-killer who uses his good looks to seduce Tilly and becomes a reluctant partner in Richard Matt’s plot.
of course its fucking good, this is easily the best new show this year and one of the best in recent years, how is this not getting more buzz beats me, ben stiller of all people directed all of the episodes and its so well shot, and the main three characters are fantastic, excelent choice of songs/ambient too. basicaly its a modern day shawshank escape.
and whats wrong with showtime? sure they fucked some shows in their late seasons, like dexter but after hbo this is the second big channel with many great to excelent shows, you cant really say the same thing about other channels, netflix comes close
It's pretty good (seen 4 episodes) the actors are doing a fantastic job (why i even watch it), the rest is.. decent enough, not very original or too exciting really. I think i would have preferred it as a movie.
I do hate the fucking music though, but i mean it's not so much of it that it annoys me and i guess it's fitting, it's very american, very white trash.
Del Toro is so "off" sometimes though haha, i guess it's supposed to come off as a little weird, but instead its just cringey. Has just happened twice so far though.
Ah, had no idea it was him, really cool, he was truly excellent.
Finished. I give it a strong 8.5/10, i thought it got better and better.
I also didn't know it was based of a true story, TV series usually likes to brag about that with big fat letters in the intro.. But I did recall reading about them leaving paintings etc behind.. would have enjoyed it more if i had knew that from the beginning i think hehe.
great finale, it wouldnt had worked as a movie, i rather have this as a 8h mini series where the characters are more flushed out and allows for more atmospheric shots like in true detective
they made the characters very likable and they didnt show or tell the shit they done until the end so they make you root for them, then they show you the reveal...at that point i just had to watch the real events documentary as i couldnt wait for the finale.
fantastic job overall, this and patrick melrose showtime is betting more on quality limited series like hbo
yes now when i've seen the full thing i agree, i think a TV-series was the right choice. I mean there's even a whole episode that goes through their past, and yeah, it's easy to understand why they waited with that. That works better in a TV-series.
yup Arquette had quite the transformation too, great actor, my favorite here together with Del Toro. But everyone was great.
Cool to see Michael Imperioli. Hasnt changed a lot. Too bad we couldnt have gotten Gandolfini, that would have made it pretty meta
What a piece of shit, first 5 episodes were mediocre and hoped the last 2 would be good after the escape; but then comes that bullshit episode from the past that nobody cared for, and the last one was a snoozefest.
I thought they were the best and that the show started really slow and kind of boring. It always seemed really odd that you didn't get a backstory of the characters, i'm glad they spent a whole episode on that and its easy to understand why they wanted to wait with that. The characters would have remained pretty anonymous without that ep.
@Areius I agree, it's a bit samey in the beginning i think, not too much going on really.
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+ it will be a limited series, so Showtime can't fuck it up by cancelling it 
