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Apr 30, 2021 · Light Out: Directed by Rupert Wyatt. With Justin Theroux, Melissa George, Logan Polish, Gabriel Bateman. When the U.S. government finally tracks them down, the off-the-grid Fox family flees to begin a new life.
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Apr 30, 2021 · The Mosquito Coast episode 1 wastes little time in establishing a few things about Allie, a kind of self-styled MacGuyver living off the grid in a sustainable home that nonetheless has a mailbox filling with foreclosure notices. His wife, Margot (Melissa George), has the most cluttered desk I’ve ever seen. His kids, daughter Dina (Logan ...
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Apr 30, 2021 · Writer and executive producer of The Mosquito Coast, Neil Cross, discusses the process of taking Paul Theroux’s novel from page to screen. Watch The Mosquito...
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Updated: Nov 4, 2022 12:24 am
Posted: Apr 30, 2021 4:00 pm
The Mosquito Coast premieres Friday, April 30 on Apple TV+ with two episodes.
Based on the 1981 best-seller by Paul Theroux (also a notable Harrison Ford film in '86), The Mosquito Coast has now been tweaked and remodeled for television, starring Theroux's own nephew, The Leftovers' Justin Theroux. And while these first two episodes -- "Light Out" and "First of the Gang to Die" -- don't exactly leave you at a revelatory leaping off point for the rest of the season, Theroux is quite excellent as the unsettlingly mad and uniquely motivated inventor, Allie Fox.
Paul Theroux's original tale of a bitter and disillusioned husband and father, irate at American greed and certain the world was going to erupt into a nuclear disaster during the Cold War, has been given new legs. In this updated version for Apple TV+, the Fox family now finds themselves on the run from the FBI for an unknown crime committed by one or both of the parents. Instead of the Fox foursome purposefully abandoning the U.S. for Central America, they're now fleeing the States, just barely out-maneuvering the Feds. And after two episodes, all signals point to the family not even reaching the titular location (where most of the book's story takes place) until the end of this first season.
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"Light Out," directed by Rupert Wyatt (who also helms episode 2), sets the stage for Allie and his family as industrious, insufferable loners right before opening the show up to a wider mystery of "what was Allie's crime?" What could he have done that A: won't make us think he's an absolute monster while B: still requiring a nationwide search for him? Also, the more both teens wonder what their father could have done, the more the show might be hiding Margot being the ultimate law-breaker. Coming from an affluent family she hasn't seen in years, Allie seems to sit atop a larger reason she doesn't use them for support. You know, something other than her love for/bond with Allie.
"First of the Gang to Die," which Morrissey fans will recognize as a song title (a song that's played in the episode, in fact), pulls us closer into the Fox's trail of destruction, as they attempt to cross the border into Mexico. People are not only getting seriously injured, but they're losing their lives in this family's quest to evade the cops. And the more these tragedies happen, the more the series will struggle to keep us on their side. Not that we have to like them or agree with them to enjoy the show, but with each breaking point comes new fallout. And in that fallout, we're all able to choose whether or not to reinvest in the story.
The Mosquito Coast isn't without its flaws, as the narrative mechanisms used to extend this story beyond the crux of the original story, reshaping it all for TV, are always apparent. But a stellar Justin Theroux, playing Allie Fox with an addictive mix of naive warmth and smug self-righteousness, is backed up by a strong cast capable of making you ...
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Apr 30, 2021 · The Mosquito Coast premieres Friday, April 30 on Apple TV+ with two episodes. Based on the 1981 best-seller by Paul Theroux (also a notable Harrison Ford film in '86), The Mosquito Coast has now been tweaked and remodeled for television, starring Theroux's own nephew, The Leftovers' Justin Theroux. And while these first two episodes -- "Light ...
