26/14
We liked Cross so much that we watched all eight episodes in two sittings
Line of Events
Series adaptation of James Patterson’s novels about the complicated and brilliant detective Alex Cross. Hodge is the third actor to play Cross, following in the footsteps of Morgan Freeman, who first played him on screen in 1997’s Kiss the Girls and again in the 2001 sequel Along Came a Spider; and Tyler Perry as the title character in 2012’s Alex Cross, which flopped at the box office and caused Lionsgate to scrap the previously planned sequel Double Cross.
Aldis Hodge convinces with big expressive eyes
My wife would give it an 8; I gave it a 7 (and I’m the one writing the review!). But the storytelling and resolution were disappointingly unremarkable.
(I should add that you can’t help but notice that each episode has a different writer(s) and director(s)
Cross suffers a little from the “how do we manage to fill the 8 hours?” question, occasionally skipping over some of the outrageous things that happen. I would love to see Alex Cross solve some mainstream murders, and especially non-murders, that have a connection to Alex Cross.
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That was particularly disappointing at the end of this series, suggesting that a second series (if there is one) may bear similarities to the first. A new season of Silo is one of this month’s biggest TV and streaming premieres.