{"id":139668,"date":"2025-11-18T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/139668\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:07:10","slug":"the-beast-in-me-claire-danes-elevates-new-series-thats-three-episodes-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/139668\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beast in Me: Claire Danes elevates new series that\u2019s three episodes too long"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Netflix<\/a> has released a brand new psychological thriller series that\u2019s already rising up the charts \u2013 but is it worth watching?<\/p>\n

The Beast in Me is a new eight-part series from Gabe Rotter, a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of X-Files creator Chris Carter who wrote the show five years ago.<\/p>\n

It was dusted off by 24 and Homeland producer Howard Gordon, who brought the show to Netflix and enlisted Claire Danes<\/a>, star of the latter, to play the lead role.<\/p>\n

Danes stars as Aggie Wiggs, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose world is dangerously rocked by her new neighbour Nile Jarvis (Matthew Rhys), a famous business magnate who was suspected of killing his wife.<\/p>\n

Also starring in the series, directed by Lila Neugebaue (Causeway) and Antonio Campos (The Devil All the Time) are Brittany Snow, Natalie Morales and Breaking Bad favourite Jonathan Banks.<\/p>\n

The Independent\u2019s Chief Film & TV correspondent Jacob Stolworthy has watched the show \u2013 and you can find his verdict below.<\/p>\n

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Rhys recently opened up about playing the sociopathic Nile in The Beast in Me, sharing his partner Keri Russell\u2019s reaction<\/a> to some of the more shocking scenes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen she saw it, she was like, ‘This is tailor-made for you. This is the person you truly are. It’s about time the world knew who you are\u2019,\u201d Rhys joked with The Independent at the series\u2019 New York City red carpet premiere earlier this month. <\/p>\n

The 50-year-old Welshman added: \u201cShe saw the beast in me a long time ago and wasn\u2019t that impressed then.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhys and Russell began dating in 2014 while co-starring on FX\u2019s spy drama The Americans. The pair share three children and refer to each other as husband and wife, although Rhys admitted<\/a> earlier this year that they \u201cliterally haven\u2019t got round to marriage yet\u201d.<\/p>\n

Russell heads up her own Netflix show, The Diplomat, which is on its third season. The Beast in Me is available to stream now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-139668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}