SERIES REVIEW by Richard Roeper THE MOSQUITO COAST Two stars
A seven-part series premiering a new episode each Friday on AppleTV+.
Like Breaking Bad and Ozark, the Apple TV+ limited series The Mosquito Coast is about an American family of four husband, wife, daughter, son who are thrust into a life of constant danger due to the patriarch s selfish and criminal actions, which he always justifies by saying he s doing it for the good of his loved ones. Breaking Bad and Ozark are among the very best series of the 21st century. The Mosquito Coast is not.
We never even get close to the Mosquito Coast region in The Mosquito Coast, and if there s a Season 2 that goes there, you can count me out. This is the second adaptation of the 1981 novel of the same name by Paul Theroux (the first was the underrated Peter Weir feature film from 1986 starring Harrison Ford in one of his finest performances), and it strays so far from the source material it s a wonder th