The reviews are in for Tom Hiddleston's The Essex Serpent 🐍
widow Cora Seaborne relocates to Essex in the 1890s with her companion Martha and young son Frankie, after taking a keen interest in amateur palaeontology and hearing reports of a mythical serpent in the area that she is keen to investigate.with local vicar Will Ransome and his family, but her new-found stability and happiness is threatened when locals accuse her of attracting the beast after the village faces tragedy.
The secondary plot involving medical research advances during the late Victorian era provides intriguing context – and contrast – for the religious and superstitious panic in Aldwinter’s folk, with some alterations made to smooth out the complicated dynamics a little more neatly for the screen.
The pair are well-matched with their acting chops, and spark satisfyingly sexy chemistry, while New York-born Danes also produces a very convincing English accent.Clémence Poésy provides sympathy as Will’s gentle wife, surrounded by more conflicting characters
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