Despite some strong episodes, SaintXOnHulu, starring Alycia Debnam-Carey, never cuts as deep as it should. Our review:
In any good mystery series that withholds its answers until the very end, our investment hinges upon the depth of the characters and their lives outside the looming revelations. There can be a spectacular conclusion that upends all that we had come to expect, but it is nothing without a foundation that gets us to care. By the time all the cards are laid on the table, the weight of impact hinges on all the surrounding details.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The driving force of this, at least initially, is the troubled Emily. Played by a committed Alycia Debnam-Carey, most known for her role in the series Fear the Walking Dead, she had stepped in for the previously attached Victoria Pedretti who left the project over reported creative differences.
Early on, when Emily goes to a therapy appointment, said therapist asks if her recent move to a Caribbean neighborhood is proving to be too much for her. The foundation of this question is that, because she believes someone on staff at the resort may have been involved with her sister’s death, somehow all these other people of similar descent may prove to be triggering in some way.
For all the ways the series is hyper-aware of narrative tropes, its fatal flaw comes in how it filters much of the story through a character discovering the humanity of another who she had otherwise written off. Where a more incisive work like the recent film Nanny eschewed this uninteresting framing, Saint X falls increasingly into its trappings despite all the ways it tries to steer clear of them.
This extends to much of the show's visuals that, in order to indicate what timeline they are taking part in, are stripped of color and end up lifeless. When that extends to dialogue that can be clunky and some developments which seem like they could’ve been lifted from the true-crime shows it pokes fun at, Saint X really starts to come apart. The best aspects of the series, like in the fourth episode where we spend more time with Clive, step away from all this to give his life more texture.
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