{"id":2153660,"date":"2025-11-13T08:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T08:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2153660"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T08:39:08","slug":"the-beast-in-me-review-claire-danes-and-matthew-rhys-try-hard-but-netflixs-cat-and-mouse-thriller-is-an-exercise-in-prestige-tv-monotony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-beast-in-me-review-claire-danes-and-matthew-rhys-try-hard-but-netflixs-cat-and-mouse-thriller-is-an-exercise-in-prestige-tv-monotony\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Beast in Me\u2019 Review: Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys Try Hard, but Netflix\u2019s Cat-and-Mouse Thriller Is an Exercise in Prestige TV Monotony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">If the past 30 years of TV had a face, one could argue that it belongs to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000132\/\">Claire Danes<\/a> and that it is almost certainly crying.<\/p>\n<p>Claire Danes Crying <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119092\/\">Face<\/a>, crumpled creases of concern atop a quivery chin, has been deployed in the service of romantic desolation, professional desperation and several permutations of grief, loneliness and general unraveling. It is without parallel \u2014 though <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005253\/\">Elisabeth Moss<\/a> Angry Face is a worthy corollary \u2014 and without equal, helping shows like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108872\/\">My So-Called Life<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1796960\/\">Homeland<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11527058\/\">Fleishman Is in Trouble<\/a> ascend the medium\u2019s pinnacle and justifying the existence of shows like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12976224\/\">The Essex Serpent<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15303234\/\">Full Circle<\/a>, which, if you don\u2019t remember them, truly did exist.<\/p>\n<p>The first shot of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a>\u2019s new eight-part drama <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31974367\/\">The Beast in Me<\/a> is of Claire Danes Crying Face, an acknowledgement, I guess, that the distinctive visage has fierce devotees, but also a warning: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31974367\/\">The Beast in Me<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the past 30 years of TV had a face, one could argue that it belongs to Claire Danes and that it is almost certainly crying. Claire Danes Crying Face, crumpled creases of concern atop a quivery chin, has been deployed in the service of romantic desolation, professional desperation and several permutations of grief, loneliness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2153661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2153660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018The-Beast-in-Me-Review-Claire-Danes-and-Matthew-Rhys.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153662,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153660\/revisions\/2153662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}