This is Puzzle Box TV
'Westworld'-style shows filled with twists and turns are everywhere—call it the Christopher Nolan Effect.
Miss the days of predictable, uncomplicated television? Blame Christopher Nolan.
The mastermind’s 2000 psychological thriller , based on his younger brother Jonathan’s idea, was a head spinner. Trauma victim Leonard (Guy Pearce) searches for the man who murdered his wife—but he suffers from anterograde amnesia, a condition that produces short-term memory loss every five minutes, preventing him from forming new memories. Nolan visualized the main character’s profound disorientation by splitting the plot between color sequences of Leonard trying to solve the mystery, presented in reverse chronological order, and black-and-white flashbacks presented chronologically. The highly complex, nonlinear narrative enthralled moviegoers and critics
