Cape Fear is the best thing on TV right now — a thriller that’s not so much gripping as throttling.
It’s a super-intense remake of the 1991 Martin Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro (and the original 1962 classic with Robert Mitchum) as murdering ex-con Max Cady, who makes it his mission to destroy the family of the lawyer he thinks betrayed him. Javier Bardem is a brutally charismatic Cady in this new version, with Amy Adams as his lawyer and Patrick Wilson as her husband, the prosecutor who put Cady away 17 years ago. Joe Anders plays one of their children, Zach, a troubled teen who Cady zones in on.