Review On Netflixs Bloodline a Family That Preys Together
In TV, your crime dramas and your family dramas tend to be two separate genres. The Sopranos was arguably an exception, but there crime was the family business. It's a strange division, given how many victims know the perpetrators, how many crimes bubble up from family rivalries and resentments. Blood may be thicker than water, but it spills just as easy. Netflix's Bloodline first season premieres March 20 is a drama of crime and kin, on an intimate scale. It begins with a family reunion party, and it will all end badly, as the show's "We did a bad thing" promos have made clear. But first it must bring together the Rayburn clan, whose patriarch and matriarch Robert and Sally Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek, run an inn in the Florida Keys. Three of their adult kids live nearby John Kyle Chandler, Kevin Norbert Leo Butz and Meg Linda Cardellini. And then there's Danny Ben Mendelsohn, the prodigal eldest who has a bad history with drinking and with the law, riding into town on a cheap bus ticket. There's trouble here in Margaritaville the rim of its glass is salted with tears. Danny's return dredges up a lifetime of resentments and recriminationswhich makes it that much more surprising when he announces that, this time, he wants to stay and work at the inn. Sally is delighted Robert is dubious and the three non-prodigals are uneasy about his motives. What Danny wants money? redemption? love? revenge?, as well as the history those suspicions stem from, come slowly into focus in this grim, family-style thriller. , Listen to the most important stories of the day.