What is one of Britain’s best actors doing in one of Netflix's seemingly throwaway series? Not a lot, it turns out
What is one of Britain’s best actors doing in one of Netflix’s seemingly throwaway series? Not a lot, it turns out’s name at the top of the cast list is a surefire way to pique my interest in a new TV series. Butnew eight-part murder mystery-meets-time-hopping sci-fi thriller, is far from my – or Graham’s – usual fare.
Graham, sans his trademark Liverpudlian accent, plays a small but integral part as a scheming politician and cult leader with multiple identities in this high-concept drama, which spreads itself across four different timelines. He steals every scene he’s in, almost to a distracting degree, and elevates it into something almost resembling decent television.) in a deserted Whitechapel street. The victim has been shot in the eye and has a strange symbol etched onto his wrist.
Then the action flings us back to 1941, amid the London Blitz, when another copper, DS Karl Whiteman , finds a dead man in the same street. He too is naked, has been shot in the eye and has the same strikes on his wrist. Another jump backwards to 1890 introduces us to DI Edmond Hillinghead , who also finds the same dead man in the same street.then catapults us to 2053, with its self-driving cars and AI assistants .
That’s all in the first episode alone and the next seven hours unravel into a tale of grand conspiracy theories, time loops and overlapping, often convoluted, dynasties of evil.There’s so much plot and so many storylines to wrap your head around that there’s no time to question the whys and wheres. And yet, the central mystery - who on Earth is the dead guy and why is he in four separate timelines? - somehow stays compelling for the entire series.
While the storyline borders on labyrinthine, almost all the main characters still enjoy fully fleshed-out backstories. Hasan is a doting mother to a seven-year-old son and cares for her elderly father; Whiteman is Jewish and faces racism from his superiors at almost every turn; Hillinghead, who gets the most compelling and emotional biography, is secretly bisexual at a time when same-sex relations were criminalised.
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