.lacyMB reviews Peacock's weird and wonderful MrsDavis
, Peacock’s greatest critical and commercial successes have thus far come from its embrace of the offbeat, quirky, and ambitious. And perhaps its biggest swing to date comes in the form of, an almost indescribable series from Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof that takes on faith and the idea that there’s still an audience out there for big, messy, audacious storytelling.
In a television landscape fully stocked with procedurals and reboots of familiar IPs, it’s rare to find something that’s genuinely ambitious, a show that feels so bonkers you can’t actually believe a network somewhere actually greenlit it, that you know from the jump won’t be for everyone but that will deeply impact the people it connects with in unexpectedly meaningful ways.
Look, it’s almost impossible to explain the plot of this show without spoilers, and you’re truly best served if you go in knowing as little as possible about the connective tissue that makes the series sing. But, here are the basics:follows the story of Sister Simone , who has spent the better part of the past decade as a nun at the charmingly rustic convent of Our Lady of the Immaculate Valley.
Her quest takes her across the country and the world as she searches for the secrets behind an object that may or may not even exist and the last woman who was known to possess it. At various points, Simone is aided by her charmingly roguish ex-boyfriend , his band of tech bro resistance fighters , the aforementioned shipwrecked scientist , a mysterious woman named Mathilde , a kind-hearted diner cook , her devoted Mother Superior , and even her own estranged mother .
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