The tide of symbolism in “The Third Day,” HBO’s new limited series, rises high enough to threaten to swamp the show. But two urgently compelling central performances keep viewers afloat all the sam…
,” HBO’s new limited series, rises high enough to threaten to swamp the show. But two urgently compelling central performances keep viewers afloat all the same.
’s character finds himself there in the midst of an escape from the problems of his life, and soon finds that the island and the annihilating threat it poses has indeed becomeproblem of his life.
But compared to more obviously mass-appeal HBO programs, “The Third Day” combines a hazier symbolism, with the intentions of the islanders occluded by secrecy and by the place’s sheer foreign strangeness, with a more direct angle of approach on character.
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