The Kilkenny Observer Friday 22 April 2022
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Just because a superhero is less wellknown, doesn’t mean he’s any less popular. Starring Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke, Moon Knight follows Steven Grant, a museum gift shop worker who’s forced to share a body with anti-hero Marc Spector, who is in turn controlled by a mean Egyptian moon God intent on using Spector as a kind of Earth-bound, justice- serving pawn. Chaos! Despite (and because of ) its lack of tethering to the greater MCU, Moon Knight stands out as an original and entertaining TV show that could equally delight hardcore fans and those who just want to know what TV show everyone’s going to be talking about. Moon Knight has elements of Fight Club, Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Doctor Who. Now streaming on Disney+
IT seems like every other show that has come out this year has been about a scandal either real or imagined. The Girl from Plainville, Inventing Anna, We Crashed, The Dropout – all four of these 2022 shows were dramatisations of true stories. Of course, there’s still plenty of room for scandalous dramas that don’t actually mirror the real world. One such limited series is Anatomy Of A Scandal, which is now on Netflix. It is a six-episode courtroom drama based on a book by Sarah Vaughan. The series was developed for Netflix by David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers) and Melissa James Gibson (House Of
Cards). It stars Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery, Rupert Friend, Naomi Scott, Josette Simon, and Ben Radcliffe. A psychological thriller and gripping courtroom drama, the series infiltrates Britain’s elite through personal and political scandal, where the truth lies between justice and privilege. James and Sophie Whitehouse live in a blissful and rarified world. A British MP, a loving family at home, James’ trajectory appears without limits. Until a scandalous secret suddenly comes to light. Barrister Kate Woodcroft has a trajectory of her own, and her prosecution threatens to tear into Westminster, the Whitehouse marriage, and
her own personal esteem. If you’re looking for a quick binge this weekend, this series should certainly do the trick. All six episodes are all around 45 minutes long, so you should easily be able to finish the entire series in an evening. On the other hand, if you’re looking for the next great TV drama, then look elsewhere. In Angie Han’s review for The Hollywood Reporter, she called Anatomy of a Scandal “unsatisfying as either a lurid thriller or a serious drama”. This seems to be the consensus among the critics. Variety’s Daniel D’Addario says “the show is so addicted to chaos that it squanders its chance to
say anything substantive”. Meanwhile, BBC’s Laura Martin found the show to be “unintentionally hilarious.” Needless to say, no one seems to think this is David E. Kelley’s best work. Of course, not all television needs to be high art. If you’re looking for a quick, trashy thriller to keep you occupied on a rainy Saturday, give Anatomy Of A Scandal a try. Some other crime thrillers worth watching on Netflix are Money Heist, Bodyguard, and The Sinner. The Sinner isn’t actually a Netflix original series, but the first season is incredibly compelling. In fact, it might be the best work that Jessica Biel has ever done.
Millie a Damsel in distress FOLLOWING her successful multi-season run at Netflix’s popular original show, Stranger Things, actress Millie Bobby Brown has been cast in the lead role for a new fantasy film titled Damsel. The film will revolve around the titular damsel who is dutiful and benevolent and agrees to marry a handsome prince before stumbling upon the truth behind the deal. She is being sacrificed by the royal family to repay an ancient debt where she is
being cast into a cave with a deathly dragon. Unable to help her situation, the damsel must rely on her brains and wits to find out ways to survive. The story is nothing like the fairytales we usually read where a virginal princess is usually used as bait to break curses. However, it will be exciting to see how Brown manoeuvres her character through these adversities to survive till the very end. Brown will be joined by Angela Bassett from Black
Panther, Forrest Gump‘s Robin Wright, Ray Winstone from The Departed, Brooke Carter from The Peripheral, Shohreh Aghdashloo from The Expanse and Nick Robinson from Jurassic World. Brown was seen in the film Enola Holmes which has a sequel scheduled for release this year. Alongside Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin and Helena Bonham Carter, Brown added incredible depth to her character as the titular Enola who is spunky, rebellious and ex-
tremely intelligent. Brown is best known for her role as Eleven on the Duffer Brothers’ 80’s-loveletter-cum- sci-fi series, Stranger Things. Alongside Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Sadie Sink and others, Brown has carved out her own fan following as the loyal friend with psychokinetic powers who helps the other kids in the show find their friend and battle other adversaries.
Channeling some serious Black Mirror energy, Apple TV+’s Severance sees Adam Scott as Mark, a man who opts for an implant that allows his work memories to be completely cut off from memories of his home life. John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette make up the impressive supporting cast. Severance is a visually fascinating work of art, an enthralling mystery, and an anticapitalist takedown of toxic labour practices.
Adapted by Veep writer Will Smith, Slow Horses is a spy thriller that follows a group of disgraced MI5 workers who’ve been put out to pasture in a department for agents with no future career prospects. This one has a pretty stacked cast — Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Lowden, and Olivia Cooke all star — and you can watch the first 20 minutes on YouTube now to help you make your mind up. Om Apple + TV.
The crown of the Shondaland jewel at present, the second season of Bridgerton (Netflix) has graced us with its presence, this time around focusing on the head of the Bridgerton family, Viscount Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey), and his quest to find a wife. Meanwhile, the Ton (and the formidable Lady Whistledown, of course) has a new family to get excited about: the Sharma sisters, Kate and Edwina (Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran), who are quite frankly the best thing about season two.
It’s been two years since we last got to spend time with everyone’s favourite sketchy lawyer, but now Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul is coming back for its sixth and final season. The always-brilliant Bob Odenkirk returns as Saul, and it’s been confirmed that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will appear. On Netflix
