For those of you who love Prime Video’s , imagine if instead of self-obsessed antiheroes the show was built around gods and goddesses in human form — that is, the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology. We’re talking Zeus, Poseidon, and the like, all of whom dress like the super-rich, squabble like children, and live in jaw-dropping palatial luxury. The tone is sneering, while the violence is extremely bloody.
That, in a nutshell, is new series , a black comedy starring Jeff Goldblum as Zeus himself (“king of the godda*n gods”). I draw a comparison to , by the way, only to contextualize the tone of Netflix’s new contemporary tale about the denizes of Olympus. Which is to say, if you’re a fan of the one, you should find plenty to like in the other once it arrives on Netflix later this month ( ).
Right away, the title of this eight-episode drama also gives you a little hint of what it’s all about. One of the animating principles here is that the world was born from chaos — and while is set in the modern era, it’s a sort of off-kilter, slightly askew version of it (thus, the modified spelling). In other words, there are no old men in the sky here wearing togas and hurling lightning bolts at Earth.
What we get, instead, is a creepy Goldblum-as-Zeus laughing deliriously at his TV while watching scenes of devastation and commenting about how much he loves fire. “In the intriguing world of ,” explains, “it’s the pantheon of gods versus humans with Zeus at .
