HBO’s Melancholy Mildred

Lately, with a little help from my HBO hooked-up friends, I’ve been sojourning to 1930s California and peeking into the life of one Mildred Pierce. In the five-part series Mildred Pierce, director Todd Haynes creates a slow-moving, sticky hot and sensual space that is tantalizingly lovely, but somehow always lacking, always out of reach. His … Continue reading