![]() ![]() But what really supercharges the show is Meta Golding, an actor so far best known for a very small role in the Hunger Games films. ![]() Charles Dance (playing a character you’ll quickly be able to figure out thanks to some impressive flashback prosthetic work) is just as up for having fun as Sutherland. It helps that he’s surrounded by an incredibly game cast. And when, aside from that video of him flinging himself into a Christmas tree, has anyone ever been able to say that? As such, Sutherland appears to be enjoying himself. He loses fights with teenage skateboarders. He’s too frustrated and befuddled for that. Sutherland’s Weir isn’t a fully fledged hero. There is an unmistakeable lightness here amid all the disaster. This is largely because – unlike 24, where all the stupid stuff happened because that show chewed up ideas like a threshing machine – Rabbit Hole seems to be doing all this purely for fun. There had been hints at this from the start – the cold open ends with Sutherland in confession, barking: “God? Maybe he can tell me WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!!” at what must presumably be a particularly disconcerted priest – but this is the point where the loopiness ramps up beyond all comprehension. Sutherland finishes the first episode pinballing between so many absurd cataclysms that it starts to feel like a prestige drama version of Mr Bean. However – and I’m going to try my best to avoid spoilers – Rabbit Hole then turns on a dime and becomes completely and irreparably loopy. As it unfolds, you can feel yourself relaxing into it, the same way you’d relax into any old-fashioned network drama about a tough yet compromised protagonist. Weir is essentially a paranoid spy who knows that someone is on to him, and he spends much of the episode shooting concerned glances into his rearview mirror. The first episode certainly comes close to achieving that. It’s Kiefer Sutherland granite-jawed, lurching from crisis to crisis, singlehandedly trying to stave off disaster. This is well-worn territory but, God, I want it fed to me like peeled grapes to a Roman emperor.Īnd there’s a version of Rabbit Hole where this is all that happens. There are moments where Kiefer Sutherland sees something catastrophic about to happen, but is too far away to stop it, so he just shouts “NO!”, and then it happens anyway. There are characters guided through high-tension situations while wearing earpieces. Kiefer Sutherland plays John Weir, a corporate espionage expert who finds himself neck-deep in an enormous conspiracy. The good news about this new thriller, Rabbit Hole, is that it isn’t a million miles away from 24. ![]() Is this a coded way of saying that I wish 24 was still on TV? Why yes. Sutherland has developed a built-in fanbase (for transparency, I am one such built-in fan) who would quite happily watch anything he makes, so long as he’s slightly weary, slightly rushed and mutters to himself like the world very literally depends on it. A t this point in Kiefer Sutherland’s career, the quality of his projects doesn’t really matter. ![]()
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