Why HBO's Run is the thirstiest show on TV right now
last summer, it’s not exactly shocking that Jones has been able to mine a similarly taboo, off-the-rails situation to expose the mechanics of desire.
A large part of the tension and attraction comes from the ingenious casting. Gleeson and Wever have such electric chemistry they probably have the power of resuscitation. There’s a devil-may-care energy to both of them that turns the flippancy of their side-eye into eye-banging without even trying. Wever has a sensual, earthy energy, the type that has catapulted the likes of Lauren Bacall and Kathleen Turner to stardom, while Gleeson is all boyish smirks and unfettered playboy glee.
. It’s hard to ignore crackling sexual tension when you’re shoved into a room with a bed that will barely hold two people. The absurd forced proximity of the train sleep-away car is played both for laughs and as a tinderbox for Billy and Ruby's explosive need for each other. We should also not underestimate the power of setting the events of this series predominantly on a train. Alfred Hitchcock understood the inherent horniness of trains; he used them to infuse eroticism into everything fromThey are a full steam ahead phallic metaphor for heaven's sake.
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