Apple TV+'s 'The Essex Serpent' is an atmospheric Gothic romance that doesn't retreat from its foreboding elements while ultimately looking toward the chance for an optimistic ending. Our review:
There are some works of fiction that simply feel as though they were personally constructed in a lab for one's own enjoyment, possessing all of the genre trappings necessary to ensure that the brain's pleasure center is firing at its utmost potential. Before entering into my first watch-through of Apple TV+'s upcoming series The Essex Serpent, my instincts were that its premise was perfectly suited to my personal interests.
RELATED: Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes on 'The Essex Serpent' and Why Their Period Drama Series Feels So Contemporary The only person that Cora seems to be the most believable, and by extension most vulnerable, version of herself is with Will — which doesn't escape the notice of Will's wife Stella . Fortunately, the series doesn't fall prey to the lazy trope of making her character a mere obstacle to be surmounted, a meddlesome presence that only needs to be cleared aside so that Will and Cora can finally be together in the way their yearning stares and lingering touches signal.
It makes The Essex Serpent's efforts to be more optimistic all the more surprising, but no less welcome when they occur. That's not to say that the show doesn't also lean into its strongest Gothic potential either — much of the local superstition surrounding the myth of the Essex serpent only leads to what can be described as a religious fervor or hysteria, with Cora at the heart of the most impassioned ridicule and ostracizing that results.
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