![]() ![]() And, of course, the soundtrack is both eclectic and apt. So what if their serio-comic conversations – mainly conducted at the wheel of a truck as they go about their sordid business – owe a lot to Tarantino? The jaw-dropping disconnect between the mundane chat of the cast and the horrific activity in the background was a staple of Vietnam War movies in the 1970s. ![]() The second episode – although full of action (torching, beatings but no sex) – is a slightly calmer affair and concentrates on the odd-couple relationship between Miles and his sidekick Louis (Sean Bridgers, pictured below left). ![]() The gunplay may have been generic but few opening episodes feature both a yeti and gay blow-jobs. Part one last week – directed by Allen Coulter ( The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire) – set out its stall with pizzazz. Miles, a henchman for a gloriously nasty casino owner called Amara de Escalones (Lidia Porto, pictured below) in Pahrump, Nevada, knows this full well – he spends his days collecting kickbacks and crushing corpses in a car-compactor – but chooses to ignore it as he dreams of escaping his scuzzy existence and making it in Hollywood. ![]()
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