“Fights for power, class and status have been with us forever”

Add Kaos to your watchlist. Jeff Goldblum’s Zeus is an insecure, sexually incontinent and murderously cruel liar who does truly terrible things. But it’s Jeff Goldblum so, of course, we end up liking him.

“He is horrible,” says Goldblum of his lead role in Kaos , Netflix’s contemporary reworking of the Greek myths. “Zeus’s cruelty arises from a bad relationship with his family. His dad tried to kill him and his brothers and sisters too.

He’s been feeling wounded for thousands of years, and he’s still dealing with that.” Created by Charlie Covell, writer of Channel 4 black comedy The End of the F***ing World , Kaos is set in Krete, a present-day alternative version of Crete, under the dictatorship of President Minos (and yes, there is a Minotaur), where mortals are on the edge of rebellion. Above the tense and heated streets of Heraklion (in reality Malaga in Andalusia), Zeus leads a sybaritic life on Olympus, which Kaos represents as a neo-classical luxury health spa for billionaires.

But all is not well in paradise. A wrinkle has appeared on Zeus’s forehead, which reminds him of an ancient prophecy that predicts his downfall. “Zeus imagines himself to be infinitely immortal, but that’s a mistake,” says the 71-year-old Goldblum, himself apparently ageless.

Wearing garish West Coast casual and shades, Zeus suffers from, as Goldblum has it, “psychological wounds and vulnerabilities”. He frets and throws thunderbolts into the heavens. When not fre.