Audiences will always eat up a story of redemption. It doesn’t matter if it’s Darth Vader helping his son in the eleventh hour, or the titular redemption at the heart of the Shawshank Redemption, if there is a bad guy turning good, chances are viewers will forgive them. Apple TV+’s latest experiment, Government Cheese, takes this premise and runs with it, telling the story of an ex-con determined to do right by his family and God.
The result is a visually gorgeous, stylistic journey that uses the TV format for all its worth, telling a winding story that’s worth it just for the journey to get there.
