NEW ON STREAMING: Parents’ worst nightmares in this mind-bending horror series

When Apollo and Emma meet, a great love story begins. From this passion is born a child, Brian. But very soon the couple’s life gets worse. When Emma commits the irreparable, the family is torn apart forever. For Apollo begins a long journey to find out what really happened in the drama that changed the course of his destiny.

The title of the series, The Changeling, refers to the 2017 novel of the same name written by Victor Lavallee. It mainly refers to change, which in European folk culture refers to the idea that a child changes to tempt the creatures that would abduct it. It is enough to have a first idea about the path this story will take.

Between mythological fairy tale and horror, Kelly Marcel’s series – headed by the third part of Venom – dissects the past traumas of its two protagonists to mix up a whole bunch of subjects – without always being profound – such as generational transmission or even postpartum depression.

From the very first episode, The Changeling manages to invite the audience into this dark and depressing world, which is as reminiscent of M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant series as it is of Adrian Lyne’s nightmarish film, Jacob’s Ladder.

Visually relentless, this eight-episode fiction especially manages to tell a dense and ambitious story thanks to its many flashbacks without making the exercise indigestible. On the screen, among others, we meet two talented actors Clark Bako and Lakit Stanfield, nominated for an Oscar for Judas and the Black Messiah.

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