Manhunt review: All beard and no fun - this beautifully shot series is ultimately a missed opportunityin Netflix’s royal biopic The Crown in those twilight, pre-Diana years before it finally went off a cliff. That experience of portraying a minor blue-blood destined to be overshadowed by a more charismatic foil will have stood to him during the making of Manhunt , in which he stars as Abraham Lincoln’s political understudy.
Manhunt chronicles, in occasionally tedious detail, the next 12 days and the race to track down Booth. And it truly is a race. If the crisis created by Lincoln’s death spirals out of control, there is every possibility of renewed hostilities between north and south. To paraphrase the great philosopher, Axl Rose, Stanton “don’t need a civil war”.
Patrick Freyne: 12 reasons why it hasn’t always been cool to be Irish - including Murder, She Wrote and BatmanIt is plodding and stooped under the crushing weight of its own importance. Menzies, moreover, seems to have carried over with him from The Crown some of Philip’s humourless reserve. The president is dead, Edwin isn’t having much of a lark – and golly, he’s going to make sure we don’t either.
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