December 23, 2024
Review

‘Meadowlands,’ 10 p.m. Sunday Showtime

No, this isn’t a logical follow-up to “The Sopranos,” about who is buried beneath Giants Stadium (a better name for that would be “Iced Like Me”).

Instead, British import “Meadowlands” is the name of a quiet suburb where there’s little crime. But it does have lots and lots of secrets.

All the families in Meadowlands are in the British equivalent of the witness protection program. They have all seen something, heard something or done something that they shouldn’t have. They’ve helped out the justice system, and in return, they’ve been given new identities and been shipped out to the country.

Viewers enter Meadowlands along with the Brogans: crook-of-some-sort Danny (David Morrissey), his wife, Evelyn (Lucy Cohu), and teen-age twins: daughter Zoe (Felicity Jones) and son Mark (Harry Treadaway).

A fire at their previous home has left Mark, a high-functioning autistic, deciding to go mute, who relies on quick-witted Zoe to speak for him. Both Danny and Evelyn hope that Meadowlands is their final stop, a chance to establish normalcy.

Then they find out the truth about Meadowlands (this is no Wisteria Lane), and paranoia swirls up among them. They discover that its residents haven’t left their psychological problems and violence behind, which makes their new home a very dangerous place indeed. The Brogans themselves soon end up going down a deadly path.

“Meadowlands” is an intense psychological thriller, one that will make viewers cringe while keeping them riveted to the screen. It’s a nice place to visit, but it remains to be seen how many will want to stay there.


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