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Pickman's Model

Episode aired Oct 27, 2022
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Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities: Pickman's Model

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Art student Will meets introvert Richard, whose terrifying works of art begin to have a deeply disturbing effect on Will's sense of reality.Art student Will meets introvert Richard, whose terrifying works of art begin to have a deeply disturbing effect on Will's sense of reality.Art student Will meets introvert Richard, whose terrifying works of art begin to have a deeply disturbing effect on Will's sense of reality.

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There are several references and homages to works of HP Lovecraft, whose short story "Pickman's Model" was the inspiration for this episode. The octopus crawling on the severed head at the dinner table is a reference to Cthulhu, Lovecraft's best known creation, and the head bears resemblance to Lovecraft himself. Also, the name Lavinia is an allusion to Lavinia Whateley, one of the protagonists of "The Dunwich Horror," and the branch-like symbol some characters carve on their foreheads is the Elder Sign, described in "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" and sometimes depicted in Lovecraft's letters as a glyph of protection.

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When Will is at Richard's house Richard states that the electricity was turned off weeks ago. Still when Richard enters the basement there are electric lights in the ceiling.

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I've read the Lovecraft story several times over the years (I am a huge Lovecraft fan). The story is short and packs a real wallop where this video presentation bites off way too much. We meet a young art student, Thurber, who is highly respected by his peers. He is highly sensitive and really gets involved in art pieces. One day, a man named Pickman shows up in the class. He is sketching a nude and his work is violent and intense. He befriends the man but finds out his attention becomes more than he bargained for. Soon the paintings become his reality and they invade his very existence. Lovecraft painted his world with words and left an artist to try to capture it. The point was that mere mortals could never really describe the Cthulhu mythos.

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