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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.
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New AMC drama features mother out to get revenge
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Frances Cairnes is a woman out for revenge.
As played by Cush Jumbo (“Vera”) in the six-part thriller “The Beast Must Die,” which begins streaming Monday, July 5, on AMC+ (and debuts the following Monday on AMC), she s a British widow who lost her son in a hit-and-run accident and resolves to find the party responsible and make them pay – with their life.
Posing as a novelist researching a murder mystery, she insinuates herself into the life of George Rattery (Jared Harris, “Chernobyl”), the man she believes ran her boy down. On her trail is Detective Nigel Strangeways (Billy Howle, “The Serpent”), who suffers from PTSD following the death of his partner. He has reason to believe the police covered up George s involvement in the boy s death. But when he learns Frances has moved in on George and his family, he must find a way to thwart her nefarious plans while
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The Good Fight the series has been defined by America’s changed relationship with Trump. The series explored how the former President impacted on democratic norms and how concerns about Trump (real and otherwise) resulted in a dramatic cultural shift across the US.
With the Trump years behind the show (if you need a catch-up on where things ended, head here) the series hasn’t lost any of its savage bite. So-called Trumpism remains, with the impact of Trump politics still reverberating. But the show will continue to look at racial imbalances, police misconduct (already a strong focus in early episodes, but this will be heightened now following the murder of George Floyd and last year’s riots), and a badly disrupted justice system.