Jessica Chastain reunites with Michael Shannon in Showtime’s new miniseries about the country music power couple George Jones and Tammy Wynette’s stormy marriage.
finds Chastain and Shannon perfecting the cinematic archetypes they’ve spent the majority of their illustrious careers perfecting. Once again, Shannon is an unraveling menace, as full of intensity as he is pathos . And like her
last year, Chastain deconstructs the layers of yet another larger-than-life woman, interrogating gender and power along the way.Like her Oscar-winning portrayal of Tammy Faye Bakker last year, Chastain deconstructs the layers of yet another larger-than-life woman, interrogating gender and power along the way.When sharing a scene together, their chemistry is both electrifying and devastating.
, attempts to shoehorn their only daughter’s perspective into the end of the series in an awkward, ham-fisted way. It makes you curious why the series wasn’t just adapted from Jones’ or Wynette’s own autobiographies. When this project was first announced, I was initially disappointed that the story told by these particular actors would be confined to yet another prestige docudrama as opposed to a theatrically released film. However, the more you watch Chastain and Shannon in action, the more time you want to spend with them; perhaps a relationship as complicated and storied as Jones and Wynette’s is more ripe for this kind of multi-episode saga than a two-hour feature.
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