LaKeith Stanfield gives a knockout performance in “The Changeling,” which delivers a slew of gripping, powerful moments that are soured by its exhausting pretension.
Human beings are rife with desire. We often wish for things so hard that they seem to happen, which we label “manifestation,” a more willful terminology used to give ourselves all of the credit. “You manifested it!” we say to our friends after they spend years actively working toward a goal—less manifestation than cultivated effort.
But while trying to study what hand humans play in our own destinies, the series gets too caught up in existential questions.desperately wishes to be one thing—a generation-spanning saga detailing the limits of free will versus fortune—and comes close to it. Despite that proximity, the show is so bogged down by its own ambition and endless ostentation that it’s destined for a different fate: squandering its immense promise under the weight of stylish, well-acted hubris.
The series opens with one of its many fantastical images: an old ship being tossed on roiling seas, trying to make safe passage to a better world. “Tell me your journey, each of you,” a voice narrates. “Tell me your life’s voyage and I will tell you who you are.” If you’ve got your captions on, or if you happen to stay for the end credits, you’ll note that the narration is done by LaValle himself, retelling his novel for the televised medium.
traverses across its entire first season. Apollo and Emma’s passionate relationship quickly results in Emma’s pregnancy, a lifelong wish of hers that turns out far from what she expected. Emma’s intense hope for a child and the stable family that she never had pushes her to ignore the warnings of locals she meets while on a backpacking trip across the world. It’s on that journey where she encounters a mystic who will change the course of her and Apollo’s lives.
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