“Paul Est Mort” : La performance extraordinaire de William Catlett dans Constellation surprend les spectateurs.
The Big Picture
William Catlett’s extraordinary performance sells the parallel point of view, capturing the essence of the story. Director Joseph Cedar recaptures the creepy aura of the first episode, creating a full-circle narrative. The episode’s conclusion feels like a wrapping-up, leaving little room for mystery or anticipation of future episodes.
‘Constellation’ Episode 6 Is Carried by William Catlett’s Amazing Performance
The first thing that needs to be said about “Paul Is Dead” is that it is carried, at least for the most part, by an extraordinary performance by William Catlett. We already knew that Noomi Rapace was a great actress, but Catlett, who’s never had a high-profile project before apart from maybe one episode of Lovecraft Country, sure is a revelation. Catlett’s performance is largely what keeps us from yawning during the first half of “Paul Is Dead” as it shows us the same events from Episode 1 from a different point of view. Like the living Jo who traded places with the corpse he abandoned in space, Paul has a hard time relating to his family back on Earth.
“Paul Is Dead” Leans Into the Apollo 18 Mystery of ‘Constellation’
The problem is that Henry Caldera isn’t there. As previously stated, the CAL experiment has been discontinued in this reality: all Paul Lancaster was doing in space was taking care of some plants. In a nifty work of editing, we see the Jo who talks to Alice about the CAL speaking only in English. The Jo that speaks in Sweden, a language that only this universe’s Alice knows, never shows her daughter the machine. To make matters worse, this world’s Henry, better known as Bud, isn’t even at NASA anymore. The final scene of the episode shows us Alice seeing her other self arriving at the cabin with Jo, reminding us that there is still the drama of a mother seeking her actual daughter going on in the series.
With Episode 6, ‘Constellation’ Seems to Have Come Full Circle
Now, if the episode’s title is to be believed, then Paul is, well, dead. However, we’ve been duped before when Jo pushed Magnus (James D’Arcy), so let’s wait for Episode 7 before jumping to any conclusions. From the gunshot, the episode cuts immediately to Alice going to the cabin with her dad as part of her grieving process, so there’s no actual aftermath shown on screen. Still, if Peter Harness and Apple TV+ were to decide to end the show at this point and call it a miniseries, audiences would probably be fine with it. “Paul Is Dead” has everything a resolution needs: we learn of what is being hidden in the past, we find out what is happening in the other reality in which Jo didn’t make it, we see the beginning of the events we have witnessed so far from the other POV, and given that Constellation hasn’t given us anything else to hold on to, that seems to be enough.
Source : collider.com
