After spending over a decade as a part of certainly one of TV’s greatest franchises, British actor Andrew Lincoln is understandably identified by many viewers via AMC’s megapopular zombie sequence The Strolling Useless. On that present, he performed final good man Rick Grimes, a dogged and self-sacrificing chief decided to guard his folks from quite a lot of threats, each residing and undead. However now that his run on spinoff sequence The Strolling Useless: The Ones Who Stay has principally wrapped up Rick’s story (to not point out given him a form of joyful ending that his character has greater than earned), the actor is ready to return to tv in a really completely different form of function.
Showtime has picked up the six-part thriller Coldwater, which aired earlier this Fall on British community ITV, and if the early evaluations from throughout the pond are something to go by, viewers are about to get the prospect to see Lincoln stretch himself in plenty of wild (and doubtlessly fairly unbelievable) methods. A narrative of isolation, manipulation, poisonous masculinity, and male rage, its subject material is each uncomfortable and uncomfortably well timed. And Lincoln’s function sounds about as far-off from Rick Grimes because it’s potential to get.
Coldwater finds Lincoln taking part in John, a typically cowardly husband and father who strikes his household to a brand new neighborhood and falls below the sway of a charismatic weirdo who’s all too desirous to benefit from his many (many) anxieties about center age, his marriage, and the world at giant. What follows will apparently contain no small quantity of marital strife, violence, and homicide, in a form of wildly unhinged tackle the fashionable masculinity disaster. (I’m fairly certain there’s additionally presumably a serial killer concerned?) Which is all form of painfully ironic, given how lengthy Lincoln spent taking part in what was primarily the Platonic superb of a hero. However I’m right here for it, if solely as a result of it’ll be so good to see this explicit actor do one thing so completely different from the form of function he’s been doing (or caught in, relying in your perspective) for thus lengthy.
Coldwater isn’t Lincoln’s first foray into the world of British drama; that’s truly the place he received his begin. Very similar to his countryman Hugh Laurie and Home, it’s potential many common Strolling Useless viewers will not be conscious that he’s not truly American after years of watching him kill zombies in a cowboy hat. Throughout the pond, he’s starred in every thing from interval dramas like Wuthering Heights to the supernaturally-tinged Afterlife. (And naturally, there’s his continually meme-d flip as the perfect pal with cue playing cards in Love Truly.) However it may be tough for any performer to determine what’s subsequent after leaving a career-defining function behind, and that’s completely what Rick Grimes was for Lincoln. So it’s thrilling to see that he’s undoubtedly not taking part in it secure. Whether or not meaning Coldwater shall be value watching is one thing we’ll have to attend and see for ourselves.
