Taking on a role Harrison Ford played in 1990, Gyllenhaal electrifies the pulpy, nail-biting new series, which should become the pop-culture talk of the summer.
Distending their source material to egregious lengths with unnecessary exposition, superfluous additions, and ham-fisted “timeliness,” most long-form TV adaptations of popular films have severely underwhelmed. Consequently, it’s a welcome relief to report that, which premieres June 12, is the excellent exception to this most unfortunate of rules.
In present-day Chicago, deputy district attorney Rusty Sabich’s relaxing afternoon with wife Barbara and kids Jaden and Kyle is interrupted by horrific news: his colleague Carolyn Polhemus has been murdered. If that weren’t shocking enough, the scene is unbelievably grisly, as Carolyn was bludgeoned to death with a fire poker from her apartment and left to bleed out from her wounds on her living room floor, face down and hog-tied.
Working with co-writers Miki Johnson and Sharr White, Kelley establishes an amazing number of interpersonal details in short order, all as he lays out the early specifics of the crime and its fallout. In the immediate aftermath of this slaying, Rusty’s attention turns to Liam Reynolds , whom he and Carolyn put behind bars for life for the murder—and eerily similar hog-tying—of a prostitute.
The most important of Kelley’s many alterations to Turow’s original is a greater emphasis on Barbara’s struggle to reconcile her protective and selfish instincts, and thanks to Negga’s superb performance, she proves to be a compelling second center of attention. In fact,is overflowing with accomplished actors doing stellar work, from Camp as the irresistibly combative Raymond to Sarsgaard as the detestably slimy Tommy to as Raymond’s intensely suspicious wife Lorraine.
Ostensibly, those familiar with this saga will know where it’s headed. Still, Apple TV+ didn’t provide press with advance copies of the finale, so there’s no way to definitively state that the series follows the book’s lead to the very end. Considering how well it pulls off so many things in advance of that conclusion, however, the show more than earns the right to do whatever it likes with its tale.
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