![]() ![]() Kate Beckinsale to Star in Amazon TV Thriller 'The Widow' It’s at the clinic where two important things happen: We see that Georgia’s left wrist was once sliced in a suicide attempt and, more important, as she’s about to leave the clinic, the TV is showing a riot in the Democratic Republic of Congo and - hey, look at that - a brief image seems to indicate that her husband, Will (Matthew Le Nevez), who was supposed to have died in that plane crash three years ago, is actually still alive. There, a woman at the facility says not to walk on the injured leg (and that’s where you realize that The Widow will be a series of things that Beckinsale’s Georgia shouldn’t do but does anyway, because she’s stubborn). She limps home and her car won’t start - not the first inconvenient vehicle to not start in The Widow, by the way - and so she walks miles into the nearest town to get sewn up. ![]() As she walks along the beautiful seaside cliffs and miles of vacant tundra, she slips and falls and hurts herself. The Widow stars Kate Beckinsale as Georgia Wells, and when we first meet her she’s living in what looks like a Punishment Cabin in the deep nowhere of Wales, alone. ![]() Of course, Jack Ryan was really meant to be all action, and anything layered on top like solid writing and emotional nuance (which it actually has) was a bonus, whereas The Widow tries to invest nearly all its effort making its mostly ludicrous story of a woman who loses her husband to a plane crash, only to realize later that he’s alive, very serious and very mysterious and very emotional. The Widow, an Amazon and ITV co-production, is a big whiff, even though you could see it being presented as the next shiny new thing viewers might be tricked into watching after they’ve binged on Jack Ryan, the streamer’s better and more entertaining effort starring John Krasinski. ![]()
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