Dispatches from Elsewhere review – Twin Peaks meets Alice in Wonderland
over 5 years in The guardian
Jason Segel’s weird and weirdly charming show plunges four characters into a scavenger hunt full of elaborate clues and borderline magic, presided over by a wolfish Richard E Grant
Isn’t Richard E Grant a strange actor? I mean that in the best possible way. How can you have wolfish warmth? But he does. How can you have unsettling charm? But he does. How can you suggest an ironic detachment from everything you do and yet wholly convince in whatever part you are playing? And yet he does.
Here, in the new 10-part drama Dispatches from Elsewhere (AMC UK), his contradictory strengths are on display and put to tremendously good use. We open with him – just him, against a smoky orange background – staring silently at us for 22 seconds (a televisual eternity) before he announces, smiling: “And now that I have your attention, I’ll begin.” Continue reading...
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