Based on the 2020 bestseller, the latest slog of a limited series is implausible and exhausting—helped none by Portman’s baffling, exaggerated performance.
Boldness is often a storytelling virtue…except when it’s not, as is the case withAn adaptation of Laura Lippman’s 2020 best-seller of the same name , director Alma Har'el’s seven-part Apple TV+ period-piece murder mystery, premiering July 19, indulges in non-stop fanciful embellishments, symbolism, dream sequences, and cross-cutting. All of this quickly grates on the nerves and, worse still, fails to distract attention away from the plot’s convoluted busyness and nonsensicality.
performance that’s as exaggerated as the rest of the florid action, it bites off so much more than it can chew that it’s no surprise when it chokes during its finale.At Baltimore’s 1966 Thanksgiving Day parade, Jewish girl Tessie Durst visits a fish shop and, after speaking with the white clerk and a Black patron with a bruised eye, promptly vanishes.
Cleo has it rough, and her efforts to keep herself alive—and, later, to escape her thorny circumstances—are wrapped up in the investigation into Tessie, whose dead body Maddie finds in one of innumerable slapdash twists. The police initially pin Tessie’s slaying on creepy Polish fish store employee Stephan Zawadzkie . Intent on finding out what’s really going on, Maddie uses a fetching photo of herself to entice Stephan into a pen-pal relationship that’s as preposterous as it is dangerous.
Portman is similarly unsubtle, playing every moment with such gusto that Maddie comes off as unconvincingly rash, hysterical, and ambitious, not to mention magically able to land on her feet and achieve her ends.
That becomes painfully evident during its seventh installment, when a collection of bombshells strain credulity by wrapping things up in a neat and tidy bow. Regardless of its solemn tone, sad faces, and compromised resolutions, its conclusion reveals the entire affair to be merely a high-gloss fairy tale playing dress up as a socially conscious noir.
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