He reads self-help books and decorates his new apartment with bright colors to be the polar opposite of the decrepit and abandoned hospital that Dracula calls home. And he makes great strives to improve his life. While he’s initially there to look for victims to deliver to Dracula, he later targets the people causing his new group of friends so much strife.Įventually, Renfield realizes that he is in a toxic relationship. Having settled in New Orleans, the latest attempt for the duo to start over after Dracula ruined it all yet again, Renfield stumbles upon a support group for people in codependent relationships. This spinoff of Bram Stoker’s Dracula frames Dracula (Nic Cage going Full Cage) as the abusive boss of his familiar Robert Montague Renfield (Nicholas Hoult). It’s most evident in Renfield, which pulled off the incredibly delightful move of having not one but two characters mention the sweater in question.

(And this isn’t even the first time a sweater in a Rian Johnson project caught the internet’s eye.) A pastel rainbow While the sweaters themselves aren’t bringing the characters to the point of no return (for better and for worse), it’s a visual storytelling choice just as much as putting a character in a profession-appropriate fit or a piece that signifies a difference in class or wealth. But between the blocks, triangles, or more angular shapes that adorn these sweaters and the vast array of colors-ranging from two shades and splotches of color among a muted tone to a literal pastel rainbow display-give us an indication that the character is either about to or just crossed some kind of precipice. In this case, geometric is more of a catch-all term in reference to the shapes themselves than any specific shape: The sweaters that feature in Zach Braff’s melodrama A Good Person, Chris McKay’s horror-comedy Renfield, and Peacock’s howcatchem Poker Face, like everything else about them, look nothing alike. Seriously, want to make it apparent that your character is about to undergo some kind of internal transformation? Put them in a geometric sweater. Yet, as each of them came out earlier this year, they all managed to pull off the same character trick of implementing a cozy addition to serve as a visual harbinger of change. None of them share any of the same A-list cast members at the helm. They differ in tone, visuals, costuming, and what they’re trying to accomplish. Over the past few months, a number of projects that have very little to do with each other made their debut.

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