The actors step into Michael Douglas and Glenn Close's shoes in this eight-part series expansion of Adrian Lyne's 1987 blockbuster.
“There’s only one way for something to end,” Alex asserts in the eighth and final episode of Paramount+’sUnfortunately, for all of that certitude, the new ending offers no improvement over Lyne’s ruthlessly efficient original and the bloated journey to get there is rarely more satisfying.
In the present day, Dan Gallagher is paroled after serving 15 years for killing Alex Forrest. Having had his professional fortunes, family and hair destroyed by his incarceration, Dan tries to reconnect with daughter Ellen , while teaming with his investigator buddy Mike to clear his name of a murder he insists he didn’t commit.
News of this remake was greeted with a predictably banal gnashing of teeth in the, “Oh gee, I bet they’re going to make Dan the bad guy because he’s a successful white man and turn Alex into a victim!” vein. This is easily dismissible on two counts. The first is that if you go back and watch the original movie, Michael Douglas’ Dan is a total putz. Eventually Alex over-escalates and it’s no longer what Dan deserves, but for a long time? He’s a dummy.is not out to get Dan Gallagher.
Caplan is a combustible delight in the showy role that earned Close one of her Oscar nominations. She’s scary, but never in a way that becomes cartoonish, and infuses the character with a potent loneliness. seasons, and especially Jirrels are very good at capturing the wreckage and reconstruction of the life Dan tore to pieces. I actually have always watched the movie pondering the impact of all of that trauma on little Ellen.
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