Still, “The Essex Serpent” - a story ultimately about love that traffics in the conflict between science and religion - has a lot to offer, starting with the performances of the aforementioned trio. You can’t escape the feeling that its writers - including creator Anna Symon (“Indian Summers”) and series director Clio Barnard (“Dark River”) - didn’t have enough story beats for six television-sized chapters.
In the show’s production notes, one of the producers speaks of how often an adaptation of a novel slices out too much of its “richness.” Instead, this nearly five-hour translation is given too much room to breathe. It is set late in the 19th century in Perry’s native Essex, where, yes, a large, otherworldly serpent is suspected of being responsible for terrible things befalling a small village characterized by marshes and other attractive landscapes. It’s deeper into the six-episode adaptation of Sarah Perry’s 2016 novel of the same name that it hits you: This may have been better as a movie.Ī work of British-Australian production house See-Films, “The Essex Serpent” stars longtime “Homeland” fixture Claire Danes and Loki himself, Tom Hiddleston, with “Fear the Walking Dead” alum Frank Dillane in a significant role, as well. Paramount+’s ‘The Offer’ entertainingly dramatizes the struggle of a few folks to make ‘The Godfather’ | TV reviewįast-moving thriller series ‘Suspicion’ another recent winner from Apple TV+ | TV review You notice its cinematic qualities in the first episode of “The Essex Serpent,” a series debuting with two installments this week on Apple TV+.
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