Cora's investigation makes absolutely no headway, but at least she's getting to spend more time with Dr. Luke!
The Essex Serpent Season 1 Episode 3 bored us to death, and we are thankful that this is a six-episode miniseries.
Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston, and the entire ensemble try to hold our attention, but the script falls completely flat.
We were teased with a bit of horror at the end of last week, but the horror elements were again shoved into the background.
Like The Essex Serpent Season 1 Episode 2, this episode shined brightest when it embraced its intensity.
Sadly, only one tense moment, with other failed efforts spread out throughout the 45 minutes.
The Vicar's daughter, Jo, got incredibly traumatized after the event at the school and refused to speak for an entire weekend.
Cora thought she'd bring in Dr. Luke to help.
Dr. Luke again wanted to use a form of experimental medicine: Hypnosis.
The Essex Serpent Season 1 Episode 3 bored us to death, and we are thankful that this is a six-episode miniseries.
Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston, and the entire ensemble try to hold our attention, but the script falls completely flat.
We were teased with a bit of horror at the end of last week, but the horror elements were again shoved into the background.
Like The Essex Serpent Season 1 Episode 2, this episode shined brightest when it embraced its intensity.
Sadly, only one tense moment, with other failed efforts spread out throughout the 45 minutes.
The Vicar's daughter, Jo, got incredibly traumatized after the event at the school and refused to speak for an entire weekend.
Cora thought she'd bring in Dr. Luke to help.
Dr. Luke again wanted to use a form of experimental medicine: Hypnosis.
- 5/20/2022
- by Michael T. Stack
- TVfanatic
The Essex Serpent provides brilliant period costumes but does not live up to expectations with intriguing yet slow premieres.
The Essex Serpent Season 1 Episode 1 took a lot of time to set things up, and we quickly got bored.
Tom Hiddleston (Loki) and Claire Danes (Homeland) do their best to try and salvage the series, but it falls flat.
Claire Danes dons her best British accent, and Tom Hiddleston is as handsome as ever, but neither of them can save the show from itself.
Based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Perry, Danes plays Cora, a recently widowed Londer who embarks on a trip to Essex to investigate a mysterious serpent.
She got swept up in the mystery, influenced by her previous natural history research and her grief.
There's also a potential love interest: the doctor who tried to care for her husband before his passing.
The doctor,...
The Essex Serpent Season 1 Episode 1 took a lot of time to set things up, and we quickly got bored.
Tom Hiddleston (Loki) and Claire Danes (Homeland) do their best to try and salvage the series, but it falls flat.
Claire Danes dons her best British accent, and Tom Hiddleston is as handsome as ever, but neither of them can save the show from itself.
Based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Perry, Danes plays Cora, a recently widowed Londer who embarks on a trip to Essex to investigate a mysterious serpent.
She got swept up in the mystery, influenced by her previous natural history research and her grief.
There's also a potential love interest: the doctor who tried to care for her husband before his passing.
The doctor,...
- 5/13/2022
- by Michael T. Stack
- TVfanatic
The barest bones of “The Essex Serpent” make up a familiar enough story, whether taking place today or, as this new limited series does, in the late nineteenth century. An ambitious and attractive woman, seeking answers about what she should do next with her life, leaves the big city for a small town, where she meets an equally attractive man and finds that everything is more complicated than it seems. It’s a narrative with huge potential to bore, but Anna Symon’s adaptation of the Sarah Perry novel (premiering May 13 on Apple TV+) carefully layers it with more probing questions about love, loss, and faith. In its most distinctive moments, “The Essex Serpent” is far richer than skimming along its briny surface might otherwise suggest. In its weaker ones, it indulges a vein of melodrama that doesn’t quite suit it.
After her abusive husband dies, leaving her with...
After her abusive husband dies, leaving her with...
- 5/12/2022
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Tom Hiddleston is hoping to pick up some Emmy momentum for his turn as the titular character on “Loki,” but the actor already has his next big television project in the can.
“The Essex Serpent,” a six-episode period fantasy series based on Sarah Perry’s New York Times-bestselling novel of the same name, stars Hiddleston as a small-town priest in Victorian England who teams up with a grieving widow to investigate the existence of a mythical serpent. Claire Danes co-stars as the widow, Cora Seaborne, in the genre-bending period piece that promises to continue Apple’s recent hot streak of buzzy television shows. The show is set to premiere on Apple TV+ next month, but the tech giant has released the first trailer for the limited series today.
“The Essex Serpent” marks Claire Danes’ first major television role since “Homeland” wrapped its eight-season run on Showtime in 2020. She plays the...
“The Essex Serpent,” a six-episode period fantasy series based on Sarah Perry’s New York Times-bestselling novel of the same name, stars Hiddleston as a small-town priest in Victorian England who teams up with a grieving widow to investigate the existence of a mythical serpent. Claire Danes co-stars as the widow, Cora Seaborne, in the genre-bending period piece that promises to continue Apple’s recent hot streak of buzzy television shows. The show is set to premiere on Apple TV+ next month, but the tech giant has released the first trailer for the limited series today.
“The Essex Serpent” marks Claire Danes’ first major television role since “Homeland” wrapped its eight-season run on Showtime in 2020. She plays the...
- 4/26/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Ruby Barker burst onto the scene, and onto our screens, with a starring role in Netflix sensation Bridgerton. And thanks to this limelight being shone on the young actress, it helps give attention to other projects of hers, and impressive, worthwhile ones at that. For Barker is the lead role in the powerful family drama How to Stop a Recurring Dream, and it’s an impressive display. We had the pleasure of speaking to the actress as she talks about her time shooting the film, and collaborating with director Ed Morris and on-screen sister Lily-Rose Aslandogdu. She also comments on the film’s “unconventional”, yet more authentic family dynamic, and how much Bridgerton has helped her career. She also tells us what it has been like shooting to fame in the middle of a lockdown, and we ask a couple of questions at the end, obviously, about Bridgerton season two…...
- 3/9/2021
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Compelling performances propel this family-at-war drama, but when the Bridgerton star bolts, plot implausibility creeps in
There are some strong ideas and sharply observed family dysfunction drama in this feature debut by documentary maker Ed Morris. But none are enough to stop the film sinking into silliness, with a highly implausible abduction followed by a road trip across the South Downs.
Bridgerton’s Ruby Barker plays troubled 19-year-old Yakira, who lives with her dad, his second wife and her lairy 12-year-old half-sister Kelly (Lily-Rose Aslandogdu). Family life is an emotional battlefield in their suburban semi, the two girls constantly at each other’s throats. Yakira resents the way their parents ignore Kelly’s nasty nickname for her: “No mum.” The whereabouts of her birth mother isn’t revealed until later on, but Barker’s compelling performance hints at a childhood trauma that has left Yakira feeling adrift in the world,...
There are some strong ideas and sharply observed family dysfunction drama in this feature debut by documentary maker Ed Morris. But none are enough to stop the film sinking into silliness, with a highly implausible abduction followed by a road trip across the South Downs.
Bridgerton’s Ruby Barker plays troubled 19-year-old Yakira, who lives with her dad, his second wife and her lairy 12-year-old half-sister Kelly (Lily-Rose Aslandogdu). Family life is an emotional battlefield in their suburban semi, the two girls constantly at each other’s throats. Yakira resents the way their parents ignore Kelly’s nasty nickname for her: “No mum.” The whereabouts of her birth mother isn’t revealed until later on, but Barker’s compelling performance hints at a childhood trauma that has left Yakira feeling adrift in the world,...
- 3/9/2021
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Here is a vision of domestic hell. Paul (Jamie Michie) and Michelle’s (Miranda Nolan) marriage is all but broken, as is their relationship with daughters Kelly (Lily-Rose Aslandogdu), a recalcitrant 12-year-old, and Yakira (Ruby Barker), a young adult whose biological mother, Paul’s first wife, died of cancer. We’re given only hints as to how they fell into this nadir, but the damage seems beyond repair.
Their every exchange is crippled by snide remarks and petty disagreements. We see this when Paul sits the family down and announces that he will be moving out. Despite his calm, measured tone, Paul’s attempt at consensus is derailed by passive aggression from Michelle, churlish outbursts from Kelly, and hysterical bemusement from Yakira. It’s a skillful moment in which director Ed Morris builds a crescendo of anxiety, giving you an authentic snapshot of total, miserable dysfunction.
Suffocated by this malaise,...
Their every exchange is crippled by snide remarks and petty disagreements. We see this when Paul sits the family down and announces that he will be moving out. Despite his calm, measured tone, Paul’s attempt at consensus is derailed by passive aggression from Michelle, churlish outbursts from Kelly, and hysterical bemusement from Yakira. It’s a skillful moment in which director Ed Morris builds a crescendo of anxiety, giving you an authentic snapshot of total, miserable dysfunction.
Suffocated by this malaise,...
- 3/5/2021
- by Jack Hawkins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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