Its governing metaphor may be that gooey blueberry dessert, but structurally it is a three-layer génoise, frosted with moody voice-overs, torchy songs and silky camera tricks and filmed in caramelized shades of orange and red.
As told through Terry's moody narrative voice, Fusilli's vision of Lower Manhattan as a vital but vaguely disquieting neighborhood has always given this series a dark and gritty edge.
Moody's voiced concerns that the actions so far taken, including the sale of the bank's life insurance business and the pending sale of its general insurance arm, would not be sufficient saying that there was "material uncertainty" over whether they would do the job.
Hushed voices, moody tones, waving cues.
The likes of Lianne La Havas, with her soulful voice and moody introspection, and the likes of Ren Harvieu, with her soulful voice and moody introspection, are collectively showing that women can produce music in all sorts of varieties.
And there was Trixie Whitley, with her dusky, haunted voice, introducing moody songs from an album she just completed with Thomas Bartlett (a k a Doveman), who was playing keyboard.
The songs, almost all of which seem to be written from the perspective of women, were built on sinuous guitar lines, moody synths, and his voice, a falsetto that became necessary after he had an operation on his throat.
My version is lonely as hell, in a different time signature (three – a slow waltz — instead of four) featuring only acoustic guitar, voice, a moody bed of strings floating under the melody and a piano, as I try to summon the spirit of Leonard Cohen or the ghost of Duncan Browne.
Moody is also the voice behind all of the social media, and admits that there is no schedule for these posts, which mostly find their way onto the interwebs straight from his intuition.
A similar lack of urgency characterizes the movie, which despite its yowling dogs, barking Russians, screaming women, swelling choral voices and moody cinematography by Bill Roe — which turns even dark blue a deeper shade of black — never finds a sustainable pulse.
