![]() ![]() ![]() (In the immediate wake of the man’s death, a confidant reminds her that she’s “free.”) Her scholarly pursuits in London bring her into the orbit of Luke Garrett (Frank Dillane), an upstart surgeon who sometimes finds his charm and cockiness slipping out of balance. ![]() There’s Cora Seaborne ( Claire Danes), a recent widower looking to use her newfound mobility as a means to pursue her uncoventional-for-the-age interests. ![]() Quite literally in the case of the aerial views of the coves and inlets dotting the area around Aldwinter, but also in the way that it shows each of its main characters (both Aldwinter residents and visitors) as just as listless as the tides themselves. In some ways, this adaptation of Sarah Perry’s 1890s-set novel hovers above it all. They mourn the missing and some of their own still living, both feared lost to the ravages of a beast that preys on those who have strayed, either from the path of righteousness or into the chilly waters that wash up against the east England coast. In “ The Essex Serpent,” the residents of Aldwinter might all be whispering amongst themselves about some mysterious force lurking in the water just beyond their town’s shores. ![]()
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