STREAMING REVIEWS: Time’s unkindness

Bodies Based on the graphic novel of the late Si Spencer, this limited series from England could have easily fallen into the trap of looking good on paper but falling flat and being outlandish and ludicrous in its adaptation for TV. But thanks to solid execution, a committed cast of actors, and an uncanny gift of refusing to overplay its hand, the series sucks us in and makes believers of us, even if highly illogical and improbable.

What’s admirable in the narrative is how the four detectives become characters we invest in. The present-day detective is an Asian-British woman, while the male detective in 1941 is Jewish - in both cases, discrimination and prejudices against their kind become part of their stories. Shira Haas, who played the lead in Unorthodox, is the detective from the future. The Whitechapel detective from 1890 was working when photography was in its infancy.

Fall of the House of Usher - After recent limited series depicting the US opioid crisis, such as Dopesick, were so successful with audiences, you knew it would only be a matter of time before some producer would smartly mix bad pharma with horror/suspense. Luckily, they also turned to Mike Flanagan to direct this mash-up. We now have Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Fall of the House of Usher, given a modern-day retelling and chronicling the fate of an Usher family behind an evil pharma giant.

Bruce Greenwood as Roderick Usher, the family patriarch, and Mark Hamill as Arthur Pym, family legal counsel, would be the most familiar among the cast. The majority of the cast we’ve seen in Flanagan’s other series, like Wes Anderson, Flanagan enjoys working with an established set that acts like a family within his Flanagan ‘universe.’ The original story was about incest, and this one takes bad pharma and the opioid crisis as its own form of Succession story-telling.

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