Netflix’s upcoming crime thriller looks like a grungy good time.
Jude Law is looking pretty good in the trailer for Black Rabbit, Netflix‘s new crime series. Jason Bateman? Not so much.
Black Rabbit Trailer
What’s the plot?
Created by Zach Baylin and Kate Susman, Black Rabbit has Jude Law as successful chef Jake Friedkin, whose hot New York restaurant is the toast of the town. Everything’s coming up Milhouse until his loser brother, Vince (Jason Bateman), shoeless and drowning in gambling debts, crashes back into his world. Jake wants to help him out, which is both admirable and understandable, but also blindingly stupid, as the pair wind up deeper and deeper in trouble.
Who’s in it?
- Jude Law as Jake Friedken
- Jason Bateman as Vince Friedken
- Cleopatra Coleman as Estelle
- Amaka Okafor as Roxie
- Sope Dirisu as Wes
- Dagmara Domińczyk as Val
- Chris Coy as Babbit
- Troy Kotsur as Joe Mancuso
- Abbey Lee as Anna
- Odessa Young as Gen
- Robin de Jesús as Tony
- Amir Malaklou as Naveen
- Don Harvey as Matt
- Forrest Weber as Junior
- Francis Benhamou as Lisa Klein
- Gus Birney as Mel Whitney
- John Ales as Jules Zablonski
- Steve Witting as Andy
- Morgan Spector as Campbell
When’s it out?
Black Rabbit hits Netflix on September 18, with all eight episodes dropping at once.
What’s the vibe?
If you enjoyed the whole post-Tarantino indie crime boom of the ’90s, you should be right at home here – the trailer looks like fun. I suspect the end result will be less fun than the trailer, although that doesn’t mean “worse”. It’s just that Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Nitram) is directing the last two episodes, and his stuff tends to trend towards the grim. Co-creator Zach Baylin wrote the recent The Order, which Kurzel directed and Law starred in, and that was great. But he also co-wrote last year’s remake of The Crow, and that was a goddamn war crime. Guess we’ll see how this one pans out. Great trailer, though!
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