The attention to detail is what makes the difference between a good TV series and a great TV series. And The Day of the Jackal is a great TV series. Everything is finely treated to perfection as in the best tradition of English seriality, practically impeccable in the construction of thrillers with a soul. They have the potentially unique ability to involve the viewer in what he is seeing with few traits. Always dry, without emotional excess, but at the same time able to give a soul to their story. It will be irony to save them from excessive goodism. Waiting for the second season, the series arrives clear on Sky from April 4 with 2 bets per week.
The day of the Jackal una serie da non perdere
Ronan Bennett took Frederick Forsyth’s novel as an inspiration, without trying to imitate it or imitate the next film, but making it a TV series in 10 episodes where it is impossible not to be a fan for Eddie Redmayne’s ruthless sniper. Able in the disguises and in the elaboration of his criminal plans, it is difficult not to stand on his side and tifare for his salvation despite the tenacious agent MI6 Bianca (Lashana Lynch), comes practically one step from catching him.
The Day of the Jackal of Carnival film produced for Sky and Peacock detached from reality, lives in a world in which it is easy to see a reflection of ours, but in which there are no direct references. If in the novel and in the film the objective was Charles De Gaulle the good politician to stop, here the goal of the great final hit of the Sciacallo is a technological entrepreneur, a figure that inevitably reminds Musk but that is a little representation of a technological/financial world that controls society much more than politicians.
Buoni e cattivi?
In the TV series everything is faded. There is not that nectitude between good and bad that you could expect from a TV series all built on hunting a killer. Because his goals don’t look so good. Because agent MI6 who chases him seems obsessed and ruthless even more than the killer himself, with a mission to accomplish that appears personal without really being. Because it is impossible not to be fascinated by the high neck sweaters of the Sciacallo, by its elegance, by its fragile stability that you can breathe in the phone calls with the Spanish wife (a surprising Ursula Corbero, evidently leaving Spanish productions is good for the Spanish too). The human component if it does not add anything to the character of Bianca, indeed this desire to show the difficulty of a working woman appears redundant and excessive, becomes fundamental to give depth to the Sharkal.
Especially if you love the thriller The Day of the Jackal is the series for you. The soundtrack, starting from headlines, is an added value for the ever banal choices of songs. In the last months of 2024 came two excellent genre TV series, The Penguin and this The Day of the Jackal, probably among the best of the year, with theoretically negative characters in the centre but who become protagonists to love and who above all do not face a path of redemption, are not characters to save.
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