A lot of television doesn’t act like television anymore. Case in point: Apple TV’s Suspicion, purportedly a conspiracy thriller series starring Uma Thurman, but in actual fact, an almost impressively tedious film chopped into 45-minute chunks. And not really starring Uma Thurman. In execution, Suspicion doesn’t so much have episodes as reams of questions, exposition and occasional answers dispensed weekly. Few will make it past its first two instalments.
Based on an Israeli series, Suspicion opens with the abduction of a rich teenager from a New York hotel. His kidnappers wear latex masks of the royal family and the resulting CCTV footage of the incident goes viral. Meanwhile, we’re introduced to three seemingly random Brits who’ve just flown back to the UK from New York: cybersecurity boffin Aadesh (The Big Bang Theory’s Kunal Nayyar), academic Tara (Elizabeth Henstridge) and financial adviser Natalie (Georgina Campbell), who’s a few hours away from getting married. Arrests are soon made, along with pleas of innocence and hints at a global network of crime and corruption.
