Without going too far into the particulars, there’s a bond that forms between their characters, and what looked like it’d be a more freeform ensemble narrative becomes quite fixated on just a few people.
Yet the story never loses focus, and instead uses these characters as an embodiment of its overall message, with all other players helping its central moral unfold.
With every single character around them drawn like a living, breathing being with dimension, there are quite a few reasons to watch.
But if I were to highlight cast members of particular distinction, I’d have to say the trio of Jeff Bridges, Lewis Pullman, and Cynthia Erivo are the MVPs of Bad Times At The El Royale.