![]() Us pulls a partial switcheroo halfway through. He’s in fine, sensitive, sometimes seething form here. If, like me, you’re a fan of Hollander - usually seen as smarmy or conniving characters in things like Pride & Prejudice, The Night Manager and Pirates of the Caribbean - you’re in luck. Shielding their pending separation from the boy, Douglas and Connie travel to Paris, Amsterdam, Venice and Barcelona - not bad places to visit, even with an unraveling relationship. ![]() The couple decides to stick together, at least through the summer, and continue with their European vacation with teenage son Albie (Tom Taylor), who’s going through his, I-want-to-be-a-street-musician phase. Though she can’t quite put it into words, Connie is looking for something that isn’t, well, us anymore. “I think our marriage might be over,” she says, kicking off a long, sleepless night. But the series also makes some smart commentary on bigger ideas, like the ways cultural myths can be accidentally misdirected and a reminder that scapegoating has a long community tradition.įor a very different kind of summer diversion, the two-part, four-hour Us, from easy-listening novelist David Nicholls ( One Day), introduces us to long-married Brits Douglas (Tom Hollander) and Connie (Saskia Reeves) at a crisis point. They’re mainly gruesome, retro fun, tickling our memories of Halloween, Friday the 13 th and Scream. I don’t mean to oversell the Fear Street flicks. ![]() What may have seemed, in 1994, to be a politically correct endorsement of a same-sex relationships becomes a core element of the town’s mythology, and a factor in the films’ cumulative success. In a nice touch, many of the actor turn up repeatedly in the films as different characters in alternate time frames, abetting the sense that history keeps repeating itself. Seen in succession, the film triptych develops into something more interesting than its individual parts and the passing pleasures of an on-the-nose pop soundtrack. She was blamed for maniacal murders at a summer camp in the 1970s (cue Part Two: 1978), but we’ll only learn Sarah’s true story in Part Three: 1666. But commonplace teenage jealousy falls to the wayside when Shadyside is plagued by a rash of serial killings that seem to be inflicted by long-dead murderers from the town’s blighted past.Īs has happened for centuries, the fatal shenanigans are attributed to the curse of a so-called witch named Sarah Fier, hanged in the town in the 1600s. Sam even feints at dating one of Sunnyvale’s football jocks. In Part One: 1994 (107 minutes), high schooler Samantha (Olivia Scott Welch) has recently moved to the latter, while her ex-girlfriend, Deena (Kiana Madeira), remains in Shadyside. Stine YA book series, the three films focus on a starkly divided, side-by-side community: Shadyside, the working-class, economically and spiritually depressed neighborhood, and Sunnyvale, the prosperous, white-columned, White-peopled glen on the other side of the tracks. ![]() If you have a stomach for violence and some meta-textual playfulness, rewards await you.īased loosely on an R.L. But there’s more going on in these Georgia-shot films. And yeah, the murders are gleefully and gorily delivered via ax, noose, knife, machete and (most vividly) a deli bread slicer. The Fear Streetmovie series on Netflix may look like just another trio of teenage-slasher romps.
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