Apple TVLondon widow Cora Seaborne moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms a surprising bond of science and skepticism with the local vicar—but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature.
The Essex Serpent draws Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston into its misty maws. Here be sea dragons: Clio Barnard’s six-part adaptation of Sarah Perry’s bestseller is an assured drama of late-Victorian romance, dread and coastal vapours. 16…
By contrast, The Essex Serpent is ambitiously gothic, coiling itself around a series of personal, mystical and ideological standoffs: principle versus emotion, faith versus rationalism, superstition versus science.Sadly, the serpent keeps…
TV reviewTelevision.And certainly not in The Essex Serpent (Apple TV+), the new six part miniseries adapted by Anna Symon from Sarah Perry’s 2016 bestselling novel of the same name. At the tail end of the Victorian era and recently…
