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Lady in the Lake Recap: A Tale of Two Mothers
Maddie’s exploration of freedom is getting majorly dragged down by her bratty son.
We knew her easy-to-spot and easier-still-to-describe baby blue coat she was wearing would come to haunt her: when Ferdie starts working the streets trying to get intel on Myrtle’s assassination attempt, that’s the detail that eventually leads him to Cleo. • Speaking of below-the-line folks who deserve some recognition, Marcus Norris ( Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul, and Summer of Violence) is doing some lovely work with their jazzy score, which helps ground those dreamlike sequences and maintains a nice tether between Cleo and Maddie’s worlds. • The same goes for Portman, whose breathy “Have I done something wrong, officer?” while greeting Ferdie back into her apartment for a quick hook-up has the whiff of a woman who’s been eager for such sensual role-playing for years, all the while one clearly practiced in the art of wilful seduction.
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