Starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen and Lesley Manville, and directed by Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron, this psychological thriller carves out the flaws of its adversarial characters.
It’s a staggering collection of talent. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, writing and directing in full a limited series starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Lesley Manville, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Kodi Smitt-McPhee. But as exquisitely as this psychological thriller is made – sublime technical aspects made me gasp – it’s intently focused on drawing out every seething facet in Renee Knight’s 2015 novel of the same title.
Of course everything is connected, but Cuaron is not interested in drawing out the reveals. The story moves more quickly than you expect so that the ramifications loom from early on in the seven episodes. A variety of narrators, voiced by characters plus one omnipotent observer , offer withering judgments. When a rattled Catherine goes to her local bookshop it’s because, “you want to kill some time in a place where you’re admired”.
Jackson plays the wildly overqualified Dr Max Bankman, who has taken the ship’s doctor gig on the luxury liner Odyssey because he wants to loosen up and enjoy life. Soon he’s exchanging significant glances with his nurse practitioner, Avery Morgan , and learning how over-consumption of shrimp can lead to iodine poisoning. He still has time to wear black tie to dinner with the ship’s demanding captain, Robert Massey ..
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