*Spoilers*
“White Car in a Snowstorm” opens with Chase and Gail awaiting a phone call, and Chase reveals, to Gail’s shock, that he has a twelve-year-old son of his own. In a flashback, Primo’s family realize that the Gettys haven’t received the ear and that’s why they haven’t responded; the ear was posted in Naples, where there’s a postal strike happening. Chase takes Gail to the police station, where they now have pictures of the ear thanks to Primo and his cousin. The policeman insists that it could be anyone’s ear, but Gail knows it’s Paul’s. Getty Sr. isn’t convinced, though, and isn’t thrilled to speak to Gail, telling her that he’s not able to do any more because Paul Jr. declined his offer.
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These two have a strange kind of relationship, borne from their conversations over the phone. Since Gail knows his code name and voice she pleads with him directly, and he’s one of the few who actually wants to act as honorably as possible under the circumstances. It’s too bad Primo got him involved in this whole deal, as he isn’t suited to the role and wanted nothing to do with it from the beginning. I also like what we see of Penelope in “White Car in a Snowstorm”, though it isn’t a lot. I was hoping for some kind of blow-up between her and Sr., but her simply leaving him for another man is satisfying in its own right. And within a couple of days he loses another one, as the pregnant girlfriend values her unborn child more than Paul and his lavish lifestyle. Donald Sutherland absolutely kills it here, portraying a man who wants to seem unphased, but who is clearly hurt and insulted at being abandoned by the two women. His relationships with his girlfriends were always corrupted by virtue of his seeing them as objects and making them sign all rights away. This also begs the question of why they would tolerate such indignity just for money. Two girlfriends remain, but the ones he has been shown interacting with the most are gone. Penelope is the only one who has gotten any focus in the series, and she was clearly his favorite. She genuinely seems to care about him, but can’t tolerate his …show more content…
Hilary Swank is on fire from start to finish, begging and pleading and prostrating and doing anything she can think of to get her son back. It’s sad that she has to write a letter to the most powerful man on Earth just to get Sr. to listen, but it’s a brilliant idea and one that works wonders. I’ve been somewhat disappointed in that since “Lone Star” we haven’t gotten that much of Brendan Fraser’s Fletcher Chase. An interview with him referencing this series is what first got me interested in Trust, plus he’s top billed with Swank and Sutherland and this character had a larger role in the film All the Money in the World. Nonetheless, I can’t criticize Fraser’s performance, as he is always convincing and has great chemistry with Swank. He’s been in several of the episodes but doesn’t get much focus, and the beginning of “White Car in a Snowstorm” is the first time he’s really opened up. Donald Sutherland is amazing and every scene with him is on point; he’s able to portray all the emotions of a very complicated man in such a subtle way, it’s like he climbed inside Paul Getty Sr.’s head to pick his
“White Car in a Snowstorm” opens with Chase and Gail awaiting a phone call, and Chase reveals, to Gail’s shock, that he has a twelve-year-old son of his own. In a flashback, Primo’s family realize that the Gettys haven’t received the ear and that’s why they haven’t responded; the ear was posted in Naples, where there’s a postal strike happening. Chase takes Gail to the police station, where they now have pictures of the ear thanks to Primo and his cousin. The policeman insists that it could be anyone’s ear, but Gail knows it’s Paul’s. Getty Sr. isn’t convinced, though, and isn’t thrilled to speak to Gail, telling her that he’s not able to do any more because Paul Jr. declined his offer.
Getty Sr.’s butler looks for the head gardener …show more content…
These two have a strange kind of relationship, borne from their conversations over the phone. Since Gail knows his code name and voice she pleads with him directly, and he’s one of the few who actually wants to act as honorably as possible under the circumstances. It’s too bad Primo got him involved in this whole deal, as he isn’t suited to the role and wanted nothing to do with it from the beginning. I also like what we see of Penelope in “White Car in a Snowstorm”, though it isn’t a lot. I was hoping for some kind of blow-up between her and Sr., but her simply leaving him for another man is satisfying in its own right. And within a couple of days he loses another one, as the pregnant girlfriend values her unborn child more than Paul and his lavish lifestyle. Donald Sutherland absolutely kills it here, portraying a man who wants to seem unphased, but who is clearly hurt and insulted at being abandoned by the two women. His relationships with his girlfriends were always corrupted by virtue of his seeing them as objects and making them sign all rights away. This also begs the question of why they would tolerate such indignity just for money. Two girlfriends remain, but the ones he has been shown interacting with the most are gone. Penelope is the only one who has gotten any focus in the series, and she was clearly his favorite. She genuinely seems to care about him, but can’t tolerate his …show more content…
Hilary Swank is on fire from start to finish, begging and pleading and prostrating and doing anything she can think of to get her son back. It’s sad that she has to write a letter to the most powerful man on Earth just to get Sr. to listen, but it’s a brilliant idea and one that works wonders. I’ve been somewhat disappointed in that since “Lone Star” we haven’t gotten that much of Brendan Fraser’s Fletcher Chase. An interview with him referencing this series is what first got me interested in Trust, plus he’s top billed with Swank and Sutherland and this character had a larger role in the film All the Money in the World. Nonetheless, I can’t criticize Fraser’s performance, as he is always convincing and has great chemistry with Swank. He’s been in several of the episodes but doesn’t get much focus, and the beginning of “White Car in a Snowstorm” is the first time he’s really opened up. Donald Sutherland is amazing and every scene with him is on point; he’s able to portray all the emotions of a very complicated man in such a subtle way, it’s like he climbed inside Paul Getty Sr.’s head to pick his