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The series benefits once it get untangled from the broader complications of What Technology Could Do To Humanity and focuses more on Hazel and the constant dread she faces at trying to outpace her abusive husband. Hazel getting back to her dirtbag roots and wayward father (Ray Romano) lets both the character and Milioti explore what actually makes Hazel tick beyond what Byron’s finely tuned algorithm says, though still in fits and starts. Instead, they alternate between Hazel fighting like hell to get away from Byron, whose far-reaching technology makes that just about impossible, and the past that led her to him in the first place. The next three episodes available to critics fare slightly better if only because they have the benefit of not telling the story of that one day. But the pilot episode immediately gives so much away about her mindset and future that it saps the story of its intrinsic pressure. Milioti is similarly deft in her performance as a woman only barely hanging on as she withstands a marriage she can’t stand, no matter what the data might be telling her obsessive, controlling husband. It’s certainly a creepy setup, especially when Magnussen deploys a perfectly blank-eyed smile with just about every line that only barely masks Byron’s restless, simmering anger. (“Made For Love” is based on a novel by Alissa Nutting, who also co-writes and produces the show, but will inevitably get “Black Mirror” comparisons for its depiction of invasive “performance enhancing” tech.) Hazel can’t play a video game without it pausing to take a survey on her latest orgasm, her mood afterwards, and whether or not there’s anything Byron can do to improve his performance. Why go anywhere else, he reasons, when he has employees - played by Noma Dumezweni, Caleb Foote and Dan Bakkedahl - who will attend to their every need, and the Cube can transform itself into looking like any location they can dream of? Plus, as we learn in our very first view of the Cube, Byron’s technology is capable of measuring the wants and needs of every living creature around him, from Hazel to the dolphin swimming back and forth across their swimming pool. Neither Hazel nor Byron has left the Cube in ten years, a fact that Byron, a megalomaniac tech mogul evoking some unholy combination of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, considers a triumph of optimal living. The first episode, which screened at the South by Southwest Festival on March 17 before its April 1 premiere on HBO Max, flashes between Hazel’s eerily controlled life in “the Cube” and her frantic run away from it. 'Made For Love' To Premiere in April on HBO Max (TV News Roundup) ….and then we flash “24 Hours Earlier” to Hazel and Byron in bed, ensconced within that mysterious building and all its many amenities, the clock officially ticking towards Hazel’s eventual escape.īen Hardy Joins David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw in HBO Max, BBC One Series 'The Girl Before' (EXCLUSIVE) She glances back at an enormous white building in the far distance, sticks her middle finger at it with such concentrated hostility that it practically vibrates, and stumbles away as fast as her bare feet can take her. Once she squeezes herself out, she looks around at the dusty desert surrounding her and heaves a huge sigh and laugh of pure relief. After an idyllic ad for a relationship cure-all (also called “Made For Love”), featuring married couple Hazel ( Cristin Milioti) and Byron (Billy Magnussen) walking toward each other and the camera with beatific smiles, there’s a hard cut to Hazel emerging from a hole in the ground, soaking wet and gasping for air.
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The actor has also shot a role for the upcoming movie The Integrity of Joseph Chambers.About one (1) minute into “ Made For Love,” the jig is up. His other roles include Denny Duquette on Grey's Anatomy, the Comedian in Watchmen, and Jason Crouse in The Good Wife. Morgan is also known for playing John Winchester, the father of the Winchester brothers played by Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, on the long-running sci-fi series Supernatural.
The episode will air just days after The Unholy premieres, with AMC scheduling "Here's Negan" for Sunday, April 4. His real-life wife Hilarie Burton Morgan will play Negan's wife Lucille in the upcoming prequel episode, "Here's Negan," revealing the backstory behind the dastardly character. The Walking Dead fans will know Morgan best for his ongoing role as Negan on the series, having made his debut on the show at the end of season 6. The story is based on the James Herbert book Shrine. Along with Morgan, The Unholy stars Katie Aselton ( Legion), William Sadler ( Bill & Ted Face the Music), Cricket Brown ( Dukeland), Diogo Morgado ( MacGyver), and Cary Elwes ( Saw, The Princess Bride).
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