The mythic scope of parenthood was due for an ambitious, contemporary treatment. But “The Changeling” falls short, despite its brilliant ingredients.
Starring LaKeith Stanfield and Clark Backo, the show follows Stanfield’s Apollo Kagwa, a quiet rare-books dealer living in Queens. After witnessing the steely benevolence with which Emma , a librarian, persuades a homeless patron to leave his bags with her for safekeeping, he falls hard for her and pesters her for a date until she finally agrees.
The show takes on the poetic morass of feelings parents and children have for each other while oscillating between two challenging registers. One is fine-grained social realism of the sort I associate with Hulu’s “,” which used multiple perspectives on the same events to capture something sour, nuanced and true about a certain kind of aspirational couple living in New York. The other is fantasy horror.
Stanfield and Backo deliver extraordinary performances at the border between the show’s registers, where horror, realism and the internet touch. I do want to be clear about that: “The Changeling” offers some of the most effective horror I’ve ever seen.
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