Bob Strauss July 5, 2021Updated: July 5, 2021, 5:55 pm
Cush Jumbo as Frances Cairnes and Billy Howle as Nigel Strangeways in AMC’s “The Beast Must Die.” Photo: Ludovic Robert / AMC
“The Beast Must Die” is one resilient, nasty piece of work.
Published 83 years ago, the highly entertaining source novel belonged to a series of mystery thrillers written by poet Cecil Day-Lewis, under the pen name Nicholas Blake. It was first adapted to the screen in Argentina in 1952, then in 1968 as an hour-long entry in a U.K. TV anthology series. A year later, the French iteration, released in the U.S. titled “This Man Must Die,” came out and is still revered by film buffs as one of psychological suspense master Claude Chabrol’s finest works.
despite pretending to be tolerant and compassionate, they are so full of hate and they constantly put that out there. they are masters of production. what you saw on kathy griffin s original apology was absolute panic and fear because for the first time, she saw that hate coming back at her. this is something that is a really critical point sean: i thought that apology was ridiculous. she s the victim, it s ridiculous. geraldo, could somebody really be arrested here? could they really bring charges? you could use comity or sarcasm as your defense and that would be a factual issue for a jury to determine if indeed the secret service decided but it would not be unprecedented there was a threat against barack obama where someone wrote this man must die on an obamaand he did l prison. this is a real deal. when you take what monica said and i totally agree with her,