claustrophobic

If Grizzly Bear’s early years were about convergence — four young men building a sound that felt both communal and claustrophobic, this chapter is about calibration: finding equilibrium after a long season apart.

“Her trauma, it’s nearly claustrophobic and weighs you down, which I tried to embody in her when people get too close. It’s like this injection of fear,” the actor says of her Apple TV+ series.

With “The Extra” she has written a nearly perfect, claustrophobic novella with a very effective countdown clock: Not all of Matt’s group can fit into the van for the ride back.

At first, the attention is thrilling, then it becomes claustrophobic.

Despite its subterranean setting, it does not feel claustrophobic.