
Remember being trapped inside your house while a massive global event raged? In director Sam Esmail’s glossy but uneven dystopian drama, this time it’s a case not of pandemic but pandemonium.
The Sandford family’s idyllic weekend in a luxury rural rental is upended when strangers George Scott (an inscrutable Mahershala Ali) and his daughter Ruth (a sparky Myha’la Herrold) claim to be the property owners, who’ve been forced back home by a New York blackout.