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🎬 This Week’s Pick: The Beast in Me (2025)
Creator: Gabe Rotter · Showrunner: Howard Gordon · Netflix · 8 episodes Where to watch: Netflix
Why this series
This is not a spy series. There are no dead drops, no handler meetings, no encrypted communications. But if you watched Homeland or The Americans, you already know why it is here: Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys. Two of the finest actors to come out of the golden age of spy television, together on screen for the first time, working with Howard Gordon — the man who co-created Homeland and ran 24.
That combination alone earned it this week’s slot.
The story, without spoilers
Aggie is a writer. She won a Pulitzer once, lost her son, and now lives alone in a crumbling house on Long Island with nothing left to write about. Then a new neighbour moves in. Nile is charming, wealthy, and very attentive. His wife has recently vanished, and nobody seems to be asking the right questions.
Aggie starts asking them. What begins as curiosity turns into research. What begins as research turns into a book. And what begins as a book turns into something far more dangerous for both of them.
What makes it special
Danes and Rhys spent years carrying two of the most demanding roles in television — Carrie Mathison and Philip Jennings. Watching them circle each other here, in a different genre but with the same intensity, is the draw. You are not watching two characters. You are watching two actors who know exactly how to make you believe someone is hiding something, because they spent years playing people who hid everything.
The series is uneven. Some reviewers found it slow. But the central duel between the two leads is reason enough, and if you are someone who misses what spy television felt like at its best, this is the closest thing to it without actually being one.
One last thing
Eight episodes. Claire Danes. Matthew Rhys. Howard Gordon. Netflix. Go.
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