Review of Damnation

Damnation (2017–2018)
7/10
An American Peaky Blinder
12 June 2021
Well done, entertaining and clearly inspired and trying to score on by Peaky Blinder's success. Even the music seems interchangeable.

But the main actor, Killian Scott, is not quite impressive and well cast as Cillian Murphy. They went to a great extent to find a similar looking actor but Murphy's persona is quite more believable. Logan Marshall-Green as Creely, provides a better performance but not quite as memorable as Paul Anderson (Arthur Shelby). In some ways Marshall-Green overtakes Killian Scott's as the main character but I guess that's what the authors decided once they were faced with the miscast of the main actor.

Marshall-Green kind of unfinished and at times unbelievable killer role is somehow justified by his childhood.

Rendering the early twenties ambiance and colors was not going to be easy, they make a good show of the car models available then, but Formica-covered table were not common in 1924 and in the same year people could not talk of Penicillin which would only be discovered in 1928 and become available as a medicine In 1942.

My best votes go to Heyerdahl and Bobbi Charlton both memorable in their roles.
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