Despite boasting a stacked cast and an interesting premise, Peacock's Apples Never Fall never reaches its full potential.
), there has been no shortage of smart and engaging examples of the genre so far this year. Unfortunately, Peacock’s latest mystery effort,chronicles the disappearance of Joy Delaney , a former tennis star-turned-coach and matriarch of the Delaney family. After selling their tennis academy and retiring, Joy and her husband Stan found themselves in a loop of fights and mundanity—that is, until a woman shows up on their doorstep one night, bleeding and helpless.
If that premise sounds engaging and interesting, that’s because it really should be, but the Peacock series fails to offer anything meaningful in its seven-episode runtime. It’s a missing persons story, a classic vanished-without-a-trace mystery, and yet it’s so unbelievably. From the kids’ petty and underdeveloped personal drama to the frustrating lack of urgency from both the story itself and the players within it,is about as thrilling and mysterious as watching paint dry.
The series’ insistence on cutting between its two separate timelines does nothing but undercut the shockingly bland reveals as they happen. The back and forth dissipates the tension and removes any of the urgency in both of these central mysteries, as the kids make little to no movement in both discovering the true identity of this mysterious woman who lived with their parents and the location of their mother.
And when it’s all said and done—when the disappearance of Joy and the mystery of this stranger have both been put to bed—truly feels like a waste of time. The reveals that unfold in the final episode are shockingly pedestrian, and as the series closes the book on this family and its mild drama, there’s a lingering emptiness; this show spent an impressive amount of time spinning its wheels just for each character to come out the other side relatively unchanged, undeniably for the worst.
Despite boasting a stacked cast, it unfortunately feels like everyone is sleepwalking through the series, never allowed to be elevated by the material because it simply isn’t strong enough to do so. Every dramatic moment falls flat, and even the over-the-top screaming matches between powerhouses like Bening and Neill never actually feel meaningful sincedoes so little to make its audience care about Joy, Stan, their shaky relationship, and their ultimately unlikable family.
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