In the third episode of Prime Video’s , a beloved character succumbs to an injury after being denied treatment at a hospital because he was uninsured; it’s one of several of the show’s depictions of the horrors of America under capitalism, and the scene that made editor Tom Eagles want to be part of the project. “I’m a fairly recent immigrant, and I still remember the first time I had to take my son to the ER,” says the New Zealand native. “The first place they sent us was the billing department to make sure I could pay.
When I [read] that episode, I remember really leaning in.” Here, he recalls connecting to and working on this singular series. Episode four was unique because half of it is this really drawn-out sex scene between a giant and a woman with superspeed [Olivia Washington’s Flora].
We decided to make it go way longer than a TV show would usually allow, and get into the awkward nitty-gritty of “How is this going to work?” The performances were so sweet and funny that it felt like it earned its place. This was such a unique project in that regard. They had two sets — one sized to make Cootie [played by Jharrel Jerome] look big and the other oversized for the “normal-size” characters — and we were able to superimpose them in the edit.
It gave the show a janky feel that we talked about a lot — how janky, and is there a good versus bad janky? Where we came to was that we had to be in command of the jankiness, it had to be intentional and.
