So I knew Good (Harold Pinter Theatre, 2022, now on iPlayer) was going to be a hard watch and it was, throughout. But what really hit me was the curtain call. Usually curtain calls, regardless of the subject matter of the play, are exuberant, a combination of "wahey we pulled it off" and a sort of reminder to the audience that "hey, it's not real, all the people who died in the play are alive and the ones who were crying are smiling now".
This cannot be said of Good. And I respect the way they didn't try. There was a solemn, almost apologetic air to that curtain call and it was deeply unsettling but, I think, the right choice.
(As a heads up, if you are the sort of person who tries to go into things as blindly as possible, don't do that with this. Even if all you read is the iPlayer synopsis. It's the kind of play you should watch on purpose.)
