KAOS on Netflix

[Walkinginthesand]

Two episodes in and it's brilliant. Hasn't been anything this good on Netflix since Ripley

Binged it. Loved it. Loved all the characters/actors

I thought I'd give it another go but half way through episode 2 I gave up. It was so slow and I was bored.

5 episodes in - absolutely loving it

Jeff Goldblum lives just around the corner from me ! (Florence)

I’ve adored the first two episodes, and I adore Jeff Goldblum. I’ve loved him since The Tall Guy.

(I’m going to Florence in October. If I give you my watch could you sort me out with an address..?)

have to give this a try

When I was 5 years old (or possibly 4) I crept around the back of the sofa one night while my parents were watching Robocop and was only discovered when my dad reached for his beer can and got a fistful of my ponytail. I'd already seen the worst bits and continued to have a very "innocent" unscathed childhood in which I was in no way traumatised - I'm sure your daughter will be fine 😊

Just started this with my 14y old. He’s really into Greek mythology and tells me all the stories and what they modernised about it … I liked it a lot!

I'm really enjoying it too.

Loved the first few episodes, but having watched it all now (don't worry, no spoilers) I felt that ultimately it was pretty much tosh. You think to begin with that because it has the Greek gods there will be massive stunning epic tales, but it all just descends into fantasy genre twaddle.
Absolutely loved Zeus and Dionysus, though. And I thought Hera and Poseidon were good too, The humans, not so much. Apart from Ari.

I'm really enjoying it, have only watched three episodes so far. Lots to love. It's clever, subtly satirical, and I even liked Billie Piper as Cassandra and I usually hate her.

The bits with Prometheus chained up on a mountain with an eagle pecking his liver did make me think of Monty Python, though.

I wouldn't think so.

I absolutely loved this. Found some of it really moving (particularly the Caneus story). I thought the script was brilliant and the cast are just fantastic. The ONLY thing that I found frustrating was the ending (no spoilers) which wasn't really an ending as Netflix always does begging for series 2.

I was lookng forward to.this until I saw Izzard in it playing a Fate.

Dont you mean Suzie? 🙄

I agree with the love for Jeff Goldblum and Nabhaan Rizwan, but it's Ramon Tikaram I could watch all day. Wow.

For some reason, it's reminding me of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet. Oversaturated sunshine, opulence and graffiti.

I really hope there is a second season although I think it probably won't be as good.

Ah, I said to my husband, ' Where was this filmed, it looks like Spain'.

Really enjoyed it, Janet McTeer has been my woman-crush since Ozark

I said that to DH - very R+J.

Oh yes, Ramon Tikaram. Another throbbingly beautiful actor - and one who is closer to being age appropriate for me than Nabhaan Rizwan.

Re the ending, I didn't find it unsatisfying, though it was a little abrupt. All the questions posed were solved. But it is clear they are aiming to run for at least one more series. Lots of deliberate hooks for future storylines. Not sure I would bother with a subsequent series except for the charismatic eye candy provided by a few actors.

Mark Kermode said the same thing in his review on the Kermode/Mayo podcast this week (nicked from the transcript):

“Mythological dark comedy television series created by Charlie Cavell, who was the British actor writer, best known for adapting the graphic comic series End of the Effing World. So this sort of does for Greek mythology, what Baz Luhrmann did for Shakespeare in as much as, turns it into something as glossy and eye-catching as an episode of Miami Vice. So it's set in a world in which gods walk among us, and a fairly rancid bunch of gods they are too.”

Haven’t watched it myself yet (it’s on the list) but this statement in the aforementioned podcast sells it to me!

“I've watched four of them, so I'm like three and a half hours in, and it is a big sprawling, multi-layered, everyone's in it drama of which there is much to enjoy, not least the fact that I just love Jeff Goldblum, and Jeff Goldblum is being the most Jeff Goldblum he's been in quite a long time as Zeus.”

Gosh this is so clever we’re loving it

Except lots of room for new characters, given some of Jeff's children weren't calling him back! Any of Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Ares and Hermes could put in an appearance. These were all mentioned in the phone scene.
Demeter and Hephaestus are the other two Olympians.

They are very good in it. All three fates are otherworldly - they all complement each other here.