The Beast in Me, an eight-episode series produced by Jodie Foster and created by Howard Gordon and Gabe Rotter, debuts on Netflix on Thursday 13 November. Starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys, it’s a psychological thriller about attraction and the dark side we all hide.
There is a voice in the trailer that says: «you’re too thirsty for bloodI can smell it.” A warning for the attraction towards what is dark, towards the monsters That Thursday 13 November will be released by Netflix in the new series The Beast in Me. Eight episodes that are not the usual thriller miniseries, but something that digs deeper. Produced by Jodie Foster And Howard Gordoncreated by Gabe Rotterproducer and writer of The X-Filesand directed by Antonio Camposformer director of The Staircase.
A psychological game of attraction
The protagonist is Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes), a successful writer who retired after her son’s death. She lives alone in pain and no longer writes, but then a new neighbor arrives, Nile Jarvis (Matthew Rhys), and his life changes. But Nile is a real estate tycoon with a dark past: his wife disappeared and he was the main suspect. A psychological game of attraction begins, but Aggie decides to find out who this fascinating man really is and writes a book about it.
From Homeland And The Americans
It’s not the first time Claire Danes with Howard Gordon: with the showrunner he shared the years of Homelandin which she played the troubled CIA agent Carrie Mathison. With The Beast in Meplays a different character, but always suspended between truth and lies, between what he appears and what he actually is. Matthew Rhys instead, it is fresh from the success of The Americans as Philip Jenningsand with Danes creates an acting duel which, according to the first reviews, it’s worth the view alone.
The influence of Johnny Cash
Howard Gordon he explained that the title recalls the song of the same name by Johnny Cash: the song talks about the dark part we carry inside, that beast that makes us human precisely because we recognize it. «Whether it is Monica Lewinsky, Amanda Knox, Nile Jarvis or anyone else, sometimes we are led to make assumptions” explains the showrunner. «But when we are forced to look at the situation from oneanother perspectivedo we have the humility and compassion to listen and review the narrative?”
Eight episodes and a weekend suggest a marathon from binge watching: once you start, you will hardly be able to stop, because the stories about human monsters they always attract. “AND caged from fragile bars, restless by day and by night he rails against the stars” he sang Johnny Cash.
