TV Episode
The Cellar
- by Jessica Sharzer, directed by Chris Long
- (Apple TV, 6 March 2020)
Sam Taylor, a carpenter remodeling houses with his brother, feels ungrounded in 2019 until he uncovers a century-old photograph of a young bride along with a matchbook from a 1919 speakeasy. Like everyone else, we wondered at the end who Evelyn’s child is. Sam might be the father if a pregnant Evelyn traveled forward a second time, but that seems unlikely. I enjoyed that the writers left things open for us to wonder, and I also enjoyed the carefully constructed single static timeline. —Michael Main
You were right—the photograph, it was me, it . . . It will be. I don’t know how, but it will.
