ecky Green doesn’t want to be Becky Green anymore. And who could blame her? The protagonist ofnow streaming on Amazon Prime Video, is a study in abjection. Played with protean inscrutability by Erin Doherty , Becky works a demeaning temp job and lives in a shabby apartment with a mother who’s sinking into early-onset dementia. Social media is her escape.
Then Chloe dies, in an apparent suicide, and Becky discovers that one of the last things her estranged pal did was try to call. Using internet research to fake her way into fancy events, Becky reinvents herself as Sasha Miles, an art-world type fresh off a stint in Tokyo, and infiltrates her late friend’s inner circle. In this perfectly paced psychological thriller, all it takes to blend in is a posh accent, keen social media stalking skills, and a lot of nerve.
The story takes some genuinely unexpected, yet never ridiculous, turns, each one grounded in Becky’s evolving relationships with Howle’s Elliot, Chloe’s queen-bee best friend Livia , and their musician buddy Richard , who seems to be grieving more intensely than anyone. The result is an unusually human grifter story. Instead of diving into the trite subject of sociopathic behavior, like
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