"It comes as a great surprise to learn that The Beast in Me is its creator, writer and executive producer Gabe Rotter's first major work for the screen. Because it is, simply put, so very, very good. Even without two astonishing performances from the lead actors Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys the script, the sheer style and confidence of it all, would be things of beauty. But add what that pair are doing, and this clever, taut eight-part psychological thriller moves seamlessly into top-tier television."
"Danes plays Aggie Wiggs (Rotter may still have some work to do honing his naming skills), a writer who made her name with a book about her troubled relationship with her father. She is currently stuck on her next book, about the friendship between supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her fellow judge but polar political opposite Antonin Scalia, not least because she is grieving the eight-year-old son she and her now ex-wife Shelley (Natalie Morales) lost to a drunk driver four years earlier."
Aggie Wiggs is a celebrated writer haunted by the death of her eight-year-old son, which remains legally unresolved after a local young driver avoided charges. She lives alone in a large house, consumed by grief and rage, and struggles to finish her next book about the unlikely friendship between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia. Nile Jarvis, a wealthy newcomer suspected in his wife's disappearance, moves into the neighbourhood with his new wife and asks to cut a jogging trail through communal woods. Aggie refuses, and the abrasive, unsettling Jarvis becomes a toxic yet magnetic presence that draws them together.
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