The Essex Serpent is airing weekly on Apple TV Plus. The first two episodes show great promise, and will have you coming back for the weekly release to find out just what – or who – the real terror in Aldwinter is. Thankfully, director Clio Barnard and screenwriter Anna Symon seem to have got the memo and made this a drama worth your time. Not only does the series star two of TV’s most in demand stars in Hiddleston and Danes, but the best-selling book it was based on swept a slew of awards when it was published in 2017. The Essex Serpent certainly has a lot to live up to. It’s slightly anachronistic from what we’re used to seeing in period pieces but it helps establish the tone – and the chill – of the programme. This can be seen through Jane Petrie’s beautiful costume design, which makes fantastic use of knitwear. The money that Apple puts behind its programmes allows this show to be elevated from a run-of-the-mill book adaptation. That’s all well and good, but it means the promise of the heightened horror that the show begins with – and builds up to at the end of each episode – isn’t maintained.īut, visually, the series is hard to fault. This is an adaptation that takes its time, allowing for scenes focused on a lost chicken, research into the science of the Fata Morgana, and strolls across the marshes. There is no doubt the slow and atmospheric pace of the show will be too creeping for some.
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The Wolfe novel goes inside the characters' minds and lifestyles, showing how they think and what they value. He does well on the sedate battlefield of Wall Street, but when he runs into real fighters - cops, neighborhood activists, politicians, newspaper reporters, publicity hounds, ambulance-chasing lawyers and his neighbors on the co-op board - he finds he's no match. Sherman McCoy, who makes millions and lives in a Park Avenue duplex, is no less selfish than the others in the novel, but he is not much of a survivor. The movie doesn't seem to despise anyone all that much. My notion is that Wolfe sees every single one of his characters in exactly the same light, as selfish, grasping swine who want to get their hands on everything they can, and whose approaches are suggested by the opportunities they find around them in whatever walk of life they occupy. Brian De Palma's new movie is lacking in just that quality it is not subtle or perceptive about the delicate nuances of motive that inspire these people. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe's novel about McCoy, was savage and sarcastic, especially in the way it dissected the motives of every single character. Whether Domin is ready or not, Fate has stepped in to teach him a lesson: internal threats are just as dangerous as external ones. He also must determine how to deal with a conspiracy, all the while falling hard for a man who, for the first time in Domin’s life, reciprocates that love. While juggling a homesick Crane, a moody Mikhail, a bullwhip-wielding Taj, servants with murderous intentions, a visiting ex, and a mate on a dangerous goodwill mission, Domin has to figure out his new role alone. But Domin may have set too lofty a goal: his normal leadership style isn’t working. 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