![]() ![]() Threatening clouds always hang overhead, while strings from Dustin O’Halloran and Herdís Stefánsdottir growl lower and lower-the series gets a lot of mileage from such rich gloominess. She blankets the episodes with a disquieting tone, mixing ominous wide shots of Aldwinter's spread-out small town with jarring handheld close-ups, a potent mix of classic and new filmmaking approaches to a period piece like this. Cora makes them even more fearful, all the more so given her timing with the monster’s arrival.Įvery episode of the series is directed by Clio Barnard, who has a great approach to telling a mystery pitched in the unknown of belief. Town pastor Will Ransome (Tom Hiddleston) is skeptical about the serpent being real and tries to temper the growing hysteria in his parishioners’ fire and brimstone thinking. The faithful of Essex are like the flip side of the groupthink that makes up Pawnee in “Parks and Recreation,” and think the serpent is payback for their sins. She reasons that the creature does exist and that it could have “escaped evolution,” creating its own path. That person is Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes), an archaeologist who ventures to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex to investigate the creature and search for fossils. Heaven forbid that many of those ideas be embodied by a woman right on the cusp of the 20th century. ![]()
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