Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof’s new Peacock series is wild, occasionally confusing, and so, so worth it.
which debuts today with four episodes, is the rare show that feels inscrutable at first and eventually seduces you to such an intense degree that you would eagerly die on the nearest available hill defending it. For much of my first viewing of the premiere episode, I was confused; during the opening moments, in which a gruesome fight sequence plays out inside a 14th-century Paris convent, I thought I had accidentally clicked on the wrong screener.
It helps, too, that Gilpin is surrounded by fine actors who know how to return all her volleys, including the aforementioned Martindale, a warm Mother Superior who never shies from sharing a sip of liquor on a special occasion; McDorman, who is so classically cocky and handsome in this that he may have rearranged my optic nerve fibers; Chris Diamantopoulos as a tech bro buddy of Wiley’s with a very thick Australian accent; a very zen Andy McQueen; a no-nonsense Elizabeth Marvel; an all-nonsense...
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