Episode 5: The Kiss of Death

第5集:死亡之吻

Death of an Artist

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第 5 集

22 分钟
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1955. Upper West Side. Jackson Pollock seeks help from a psychotherapist practicing controversial methods. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • It's 1986, about three decades after Jackson's death.

  • On a cold winter's day on the Upper west side, a woman called Maris has been sitting in a parked car watching a house.

  • She's on a stakeout, a stakeout of her very own home.

  • A kind of alternative utopian community hidden in plain sight.

  • That's Alexander Stiller, who has just written a book about this community.

  • You could drink as much as you want, you could sleep with as many people as you want.

  • You didn't have to feel guilty.

  • Great, what's wrong with that?

  • But it had a darker side.

  • The year before, Maris had had a baby.

  • Three months after giving birth, she is told not to see her child at all because she's a smothering mother and it's going to be a toxic influence on her daughter.

  • The kid was taken away from her and now Maris is parked outside the commune with two hired bodyguards, waiting.

  • Finally, she sees some movement.

  • The front door opens and out comes a pram in.